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[Illustration: THE AUTHOR.]


THROUGH SCANDINAVIA TO MOSCOW

With Many Illustrations and Maps

by

WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDWARDS

Author of "In to the Yukon," etc.







Cincinnati
The Robert Clarke Co.
1906

Copyright 1906, by
William Seymour Edwards




    DEDICATION

    To my life-long chum,
    my father,
    these pages are affectionately dedicated.





FOREWORD


These pages are made up of letters written during a little journey
through Scandinavia and into Russia as far as Moscow, some four years
ago, before the smashing of the Russians by the Japanese. They were
written to my father, and are necessarily intimate letters, in which I
have jotted down what I saw and felt as the moment moved me. The truth
is, I was on my honey-moon trip, and the world sang merrily to
me--even in sombre Russia.

Afterward, some of these letters were published here and there; now
they are put together into this little book. I had my kodak with me
and have thus been able to add to the text some of the scenes my lens
made note of.

It was my endeavor at the