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I.An Unexpected Pleasure[11]
II.New York for the First Time[19]
III.Life on a Steamer[25]
IV.A First Glimpse of England[32]
V.A Week in London[36]
VI.Off for the Continent[44]
VII.Up the Rhine[50]
VIII.The Legend of the Lorely[58]
IX.Mayence to Nuremberg[66]
X.Nuremberg[70]
XI.Nuremberg.—Continued[82]
XII.Strasbourg[91]
XIII.Homeward Bound[101]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York[Frontispiece]
The Great Steamer backed out into the River[22]
Houses of Parliament[29]
Nelson Column[36]
Tower of London[41]
Hampton Court[42]
Brussels Bourse[47]
Cologne Cathedral[51]
Lahneck Castle[55]
Mouse Tower[62]
Mayence—general view[67]
Nuremberg Walls[71]
Albrecht Dürer's House[73]
Nuremberg Castle[75]
Nuremberg[82]
Strasbourg Cathedral—side view[91]
Strasbourg Storks[95]
Strasbourg-Cathedral Clock[97]
Place de la Concorde[102]
Petit Trianon[109]
Thames Embankment[112]

TO NUREMBERG AND BACK.

A GIRL'S HOLIDAY.

CHAPTER I.
AN UNEXPECTED PLEASURE.

One day in the early spring, Alice Winter came home from school, and, after the usual question at the door, "Is mamma at home?" rushed upstairs, and found to her great surprise that her papa was at home, talking very earnestly to Mrs. Winter.

When Alice came into the room, Mr. Winter stopped talking, and she wondered very much what they could have been talking about so earnestly, as all she heard was her papa asking, "Do you think we had better take her with us?"