XXXVII THE MAKERS OF FLORENCE 371 XXXVIII A NIGHT RAMBLE IN FLORENCE 380 XXXIX FLORENCE OF TO-DAY 387 XL MARIA BASTIDA 398 XLI VENICE 409 XLII LUCERNE 415 XLIII ENTERING GERMANY 424 XLIV A MEDIEVAL TOWN 437 XLV MY FATHER’S BIRTHPLACE 449 XLVI THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT 454 XLVII BERLIN 462 XLVIII THE NIGHT-LIFE OF BERLIN 474 XLIX ON THE WAY TO HOLLAND 486 L AMSTERDAM 494 LI “SPOTLESS TOWN” 501 LII PARIS AGAIN 507 LIII THE VOYAGE HOME 515 ILLUSTRATIONS Piccadilly Circus _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE I saw Mr. G. conversing with Miss E. 8 One of those really interesting conversations between Barfleur and Miss X. 20 “I like it,” he pronounced. “The note is somber, but it is excellent work” 70 Hoped for the day when the issue might be tried out physically 74 Here the Thames was especially delightful 90 Barfleur 156 The French have made much of the Seine 228 One of the thousands upon thousands of cafés on the boulevards of Paris 236 These places were crowded with a gay and festive throng 244 I looked to a distant table to see the figure he indicated 252 “My heavens, how well she keeps up!” 290 I sated myself on the house fronts or backs below the Ponte Vecchio 384 There can only be one Venice 404 A German dance hall, Berlin 464 Teutonic bursts of temper 482 A TRAVELER AT FORTY CHAPTER I BARFLEUR TAKES ME IN HAND I have just turned forty. I have seen a little something of life. I have been a newspaper man, editor, magazine contributor, author and, before these things, several odd kinds of clerk before I found out what I could do.