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  A YEAR IN EUROPE.




[Illustration: WESTMINSTER ABBEY--JERUSALEM CHAMBER TO THE RIGHT.]




  A YEAR IN EUROPE.

  _By_

  WALTER W. MOORE, D. D., LL. D.

  President of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia

  THIRD EDITION

  [Illustration]

  RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

  The Presbyterian Committee of Publication

  1905


  COPYRIGHTED
  BY
  WALTER W. MOORE,
  1904.

  PRINTED BY
  WHITTET & SHEPPERSON,
  RICHMOND, VA.




  TO

  My Traveling Companions

  THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
  AS A MEMENTO
  OF HAPPY DAYS IN THE OLD WORLD.




FOREWORD.


The only excuse I have to offer for the publication of these desultory
and chatty letters in this more permanent form is that a number of my
friends have requested it. Many of the letters have already appeared in
the columns of _The Children's Friend_, for which they were originally
written, at the instance of the Presbyterian Committee of Publication;
but I have included in the volume several letters which were written
for other periodicals, and a considerable number which have not been
published anywhere till now. Some of them were written hastily, and, as
it were, on the wing, others with more deliberation and care. Some were
intended for young readers, others for older people. This will account
for the differences of style and subject matter which will