The Youthful Wanderer / An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, Adapted to the Wants of Young Americans Taking Their First Glimpses at the Old World

by George H. Heffner

Contents.

[Chapter I.]

• Leaving Home
• New York
• Brooklyn--Plymouth Church
• Extracts from Henry Ward Beecher's Sermon
• Greenwood Cemetery
• Barnum's Hippodrome
• On Board the "Manhattan"
• Setting Sail--The Parting Hour
• Sea-Sickness
• A Shoal of Whales
• Approaching Queenstown--The First Sight of Land
• Coasting Ireland and Wales
• Personal Incidents--Life-boat, No. 5

[Chapter II.]

• Liverpool
• The Mystical Letters "IHS" mean Jesus
• The Wonderful Clock of Jacob Lovelace

[Chapter III.]

• Chester--Origin of the Name
• The Rows or Second-Story Pavements
• The Cathedral and St. John's
• The Walls
• Birmingham
• Railroads in Europe

[Chapter IV.]

• Stratford-on-Avon--- Shakespeare's Birthplace
• Shottery--Anne Hathaway's Home
• Shakespeare's Grave

[Chapter V.]

• Warwick--St. Mary's
• Kenilworth Castle
• Approaching Coventry--"The Lover's Promenade"
• Coventry--Its Fine Churches
• Warwick Castle
• Oxford--The Great University

[Chapter VI.]

London.

• Its Underground Railroads
• Territory, Population and Other Statistics
• St. Paul's Cathedral
• Crystal Palace
• The Houses of Parliament
• Westminster Abbey
• Ensigns Armorial, &c.
• Sunday in London
• Hyde Park--Radical Meeting
• The Tower of London

[Chapter VII.]

London to Paris.

• Strait of Dover
• Calais

[Chapter VIII.]

Paris.

• Its Railway Stations,
• Lack of Delicacy in Many of the Social Habits and Institutions Among the People of Warm Countries
• The Boulevards, Rues, &c.
• Arcades and Passages
• Palais Royal
• Its Diamond Windows
• The Cafe--A Characteristic Feature of Modern
• Civilization
• Champs Elysees
• Palais de l'Industrie or the Exhibition Buildings
• Place de la Concorde and the Obelisk of Luxor
• Garden of the Tuileries
• The Arch of Triumph
• Other Triumphal Arches
• The Tomb of Napoleon I
• Artesian Wells
• Notre Dame Cathedral
• The Pantheon
• The Madeleine
• The Louvre
• Theaters and Operas
• At a Ball
• Incidents

[Chapter IX.]

• St. Cloud
• The Palace at Versailles
• The Pleasure-Garden

[Chapter X.]

• Leaving Paris
• Brussels
• The Cathedral
• Hotel de Ville
• Antwerp
• The Spirit of Revolution
• Notre Dame Cathedral
• The Museum

[Chapter XI.]

Holland.

• The Hague
• Cloak-Rooms
• Utrecht

[Chapter XII.]

• Cologne
• The Cathedral
• The Museum
• Depths of Man's Degradation
• Bonn
• The Kreuzberg
• The Drachenfels

[Chapter XIII.]

• Coblentz
• Geological Laws
• On the Rhine
• Frankfort
• Darmstadt
• Worms

[Chapter XIV.]

The Palatinate, (Die Pfalz).

• Mannheim
• Neustadt
• Heidelberg
• The Castle
• The Great Tun
• Stuttgart
• Strassburg
• The Black Forest

[Chapter XV.]

Switzerland.

• The Rigi
• The Giessbach Falls
• The Rhone Glacier
• The Grimsel
• The Cathedral of Freiburg
• Berne

[Chapter XVI.]

• Geneva to Turin
• Mont Cenis Tunnel

Italy.

• Its Fair Sky and Beautiful People,
• Milan
• Venice
• San Marco

[Chapter XVII.]

• Venice to Bologne
• Florence
• Pisa
• Going Southward

[Chapter XVIII.]

Rome.

• The Colosseum
• The Roman Forum
• The Site of the Ancient Capitol
• "Twelve"
• The Temple of Cæsar
• The Baths of Caracalla
• The Pyramid of Cestius
• St. Peter's
• The Lateran
• Santa Maria Maggiore
• Museums

[Chapter XIX.]

Rome to Brindisi.

• Ascent of Mount Vesuvius,
• The Ruins of Pompeii

[Chapter XX.]

• On the Mediterranean
• Alexandria
• Cairo
• Wretchedness of the Poorer Classes
• The Return Trip
• Conclusion

Subjects treated in a general way are distinguished by being rendered in italics, in this table of contents.

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