BOSTON COMMON, BOSTON, MASS. _Frontispiece_ PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, WASHINGTON 14 MEMORIAL MONUMENT TO SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, FOUNDER OF QUEBEC 34 THE UPPER YELLOWSTONE FALLS 50 GRAND CANON, ARIZONA 66 RED WOOD TREE, CALIFORNIA 96 REGINA ANGELORUM (Queen of the Angels) 116 A WATERFALL IN THE TROPICS 146 LA GUAYRA, VENEZUELA 180 A SOUTH SEA ISLAND 214 THE MONARCHS OF THE ANDES 252 WITH THE WORLD'S GREAT TRAVELLERS. THE WORLD'S GREAT CAPITALS OF TO-DAY. OLIVER H. G. LEIGH. NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, CHICAGO. The reflective voyager, on his first sight of New York, is baffled when he attempts to catalogue his sensations. All is so completely in contrast with the capitals of Europe. The gloriously bright sky, air that drinks like champagne, the resultant springiness of life and movement, that overdoes itself in excitement and premature exhaustion, and the obtrusively visible defects of this surface enthusiasm, monotonous streets, unfinished or unbegun city improvements, and the conspicuous lack of play-spaces for children--this is the rough portrait sketch New York draws of itself for the newcomer. It does not disguise the fact that money-making was for many years the dominant consideration. The city was laid out for business, and public comfort had to look out for itself. The workers, the poor, and the helpless were apparently overlooked.