of July 4th. Having spent a week in London, we crossed the English
Channel to Paris; remained there two days, then made brief visits to the
battlefield of Waterloo, to Brussels, Amsterdam, Hull, Sheffield, Dublin,
and back to Liverpool. We sailed to Boston and returned to Chicago by
way of Montreal and Detroit, having spent forty-nine days--the
intensest and delightfullest of our lives. At first, we hesitated to treat
this subject from a point of view of personal experience, but since it
is our purpose to incite in others the love for and the right us of all
helpful resources of happiness and power, it seemed to us that we could
no better accomplish our purpose with respect to this subject than to
recount our own observations from this one limited, imperfect journey.


AN EYE-OPEN AND EAR-OPEN EXPERIENCE.

One is always at a disadvantage in relating the faults of others, for he
seems to himself and to his friends to be telling his own experience. We
were about to speak of the superficial way in which Americans travel.
One who has traveled much says that "the average company of American
tourists goes through the Art Galleries of Europe like a drove of cattle
through the lanes of a stock-market." Nor is it the art gallery and museum
alone that is done superficially. How many persons before entering
grand old Notre Dame, or the British Houses of Parliament, pause to
admire the elaborate and expansive beauty of the great archways and
outer walls? It is possible to live in this world, to travel around it, to
touch at every great port and city, and yet fail to see what is of value
or of interest. A man on our boat going to Liverpool, said that he had
traveled over the world, had been in London many a time, but had not
taken the pains to go into St. Paul's, nor to visit the Tower of London.
A wise man, a seer, is one who sees. It is possible to live in this world,