PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
The very great interest with which the writer of the following pages has been often heard by many of his countrymen about his travels and experiences in Europe, has induced him to publish the following pages. They are, as they profess to be, simply extracts from letters sent from Europe, and as such they cannot, the writer is but too well aware, come up to the standard of books specially written on the subject, or even of notes taken with an eye to publication. Had any such books existed, the writer would have at once retired from an unequal competition, nor would he have pushed to the notice of the public his letters written carelessly, and without the least idea of publication. As it is, however, none of our countrymen has favored the public with accounts of their travels in Europe. These letters were written mostly from England, but they also contain accounts of some of the most important places in Scotland and Ireland, in France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. They may therefore serve as a guide-book to Indian youths intending to visit Europe, containing at the same time something
