I have not attempted to describe scenery, and buildings, and things of that nature, at all. That has been done by men and women more capable of such work than I am. Every library in America is full of books of that nature. But I was interested in the men and women of the countries I passed through, I was interested in their ways of living, their industries and their customs and habits, and I tried faithfully to put upon paper what I saw, as well as the observations and comments of the party that traveled and observed with me. I have a hope that the readers of these pages will lay the book down in quite as good condition, mentally and physically, as when they took it up, and that some information as to European life will result from its perusal. As I make no promises at the beginning I shall have no apologies to make at the ending. It is only justice to say that much of the descriptive matter is the work of Mr. ROBINSON LOCKE, who was with me every minute of the time, and the intelligent reader will be perfectly safe in ascribing the best of its pages to his pen. I can only hope that this work, as a book, will meet with the same measure of favor that the material did as newspaper sketches. D. R. L. _Toledo, Ohio, June 29, 1882._ ILLUSTRATIONS. No. PAGE 1. FRONTISPIECE. 2. The Departure 18 3. "Shuffle Board" 22 4. The Betting Young Man from Chicago 24 5. "Dear, Sea-sickness is only a Feminine Weakness," 27 6. Lemuel Tibbitts, from Oshkosh, Writes a Letter 29 7. Every Sin I Had Committed Came Before Me 33 8. Off for London 35 9. Public Buildings, London 36 10. The Indian Policy 39 11. The Emetic Policy 39 12. A London Street Scene 45 13. A London Steak 50 14. "And is the Them Shanghais?" 53 15. Sol. Carpenter and the Race 60 16. Leaving for the Derby 62 17. By the Roadside 64 18. English Negro Minstrelsy 66 19. The Roadside Repast 67 20. The Betting Ring 73 21. "D----n the Swindling Scoundrel" 74 22. Egyptian Room, British Museum 76 23. A Bold Briton Trying the American Custom 79 24.