Europe

The Pictures from Italy are excellent in themselves and excellent as a foil to the American Notes. Here we have none of that air of giving a decision like a judge or sending in a report like an inspe …

The ‘Italian Journeys’ of Mr. Howells date from the year 1864, when the author was still our Consul at Venice, and had just taken the first step in his long, honorable career as a man of letters by t …

This first major work of the famous author is a travelogue of his journeys to Europe. It is a form, which, as every reader knows, has been recommended by the high example and success of Mr. Irving; a …

‘A Tramp Abroad’ is one of Mark Twain’s famous travel books, describing the events of a journey to Europe with his fictional friend Harris. They start their journey in Germany, travel through Switzer …

A companion volume to ‘London Films’, in which Mr. Howells writes of Bath, Oxford, Canterbury and other delightful English towns, with glimpses of the country in between. The author catches the true …

The character of American humor, and its want of resemblance to the humor of Kamtschatka and Patagonia, —will the reader forgive us if we fail to set down here the thoughts suggested by these fresh a …

In ‘London Films’ Mr. Howells certainly maintains his deserved reputation. His delightful essays are characterized by a genial sympathy quite unlike any other author’s of the present time. It is this …

The ‘English Note-Books’ were the result of Hawthorne’s residence abroad, on being appointed Consul at Liverpool, by President Pierce. Although the ‘English Note-Books’ are not so abundant in imagina …

With that genially serious attention to minute details, that humorous circumstantiality in treating the commonplace, which we have all come to know so well and to like (or dislike) so heartily in Mr. …

What Europe is and what it should be is often the subject of passionate debate. A unique concept whereby several nations are brought together under a humane, democratic system? The strongest economy …