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TRAVELS

IN

PHILADELPHIA


BY
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY


with drawings by
Frank H. Taylor


What could be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the fascinating terrors of going abroad combined with all the humane security of coming home again? What could be better than to have all the fun of discovering South Africa without the disgusting necessity of landing there? What could be more glorious than to brace one's self up to discover New South Wales and then realize, with a gush of happy tears, that it was really Old South Wales. . . . How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? How can this world give us at once the fascination of a strange town and the comfort and honour of being our own town?

G. K. CHESTERTON
Orthodoxy


PHILADELPHIA
DAVID McKAY COMPANY, Publishers
604-608 South Washington Square