Transcriber’s Note This version of the text is unable to reproduce certain typographic features. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Any text printed using “small capitals” was shifted to all upper-case. Please see the transcriber’s notes at the end of this text for a more complete account of any other textual issues and their resolution. Greece [Illustration] [Illustration: _The Parthenon_ _South-west Corner_ _From a drawing made by H. W. Williams in 1829_] Studies of Travel by Edward A. Freeman Greece “IN THE LIFE OF CITIES NOTHING PRESERVES LIKE EARLY OVERTHROW, NOTHING DESTROYS LIKE CONTINUOUS LIFE.”--P. 120 G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK LONDON 27 & 29 West 23d Street 24 Bedford Street, Strand The Knickerbocker Press COPYRIGHT, 1893 BY G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS _Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London_ BY G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New York G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS TO THE MEMORY OF MARGARET EVANS, THE COMPANION IN GREEK TRAVEL OF HER FATHER, THE WRITER OF THESE PAPERS, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY HER SISTER Preface The papers that have been brought together in these small volumes are the results of three several journeys made by my father in Greece and Italy. He visited Greece for the first time in 1877, but of the papers written in that year, which appeared in the _Saturday Review_, only those on Corfu have been reprinted. They form part of the volume of _Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice_, in the preface to which work the hope was held out that some out of many papers on the more distant Greek lands might one day be put together. It has been thought that these papers will not prove the less welcome that they must now lack the re-casting that my father would undoubtedly have given to them. Since his Greek journey was made, fresh light has been thrown on many points by the German excavations at Olympia as well as by those conducted by the Greeks themselves on the Athenian Akropolis, at Eleusis and elsewhere.