Travel - A Friend in the Library: Volume II - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Travel - A Friend in the Library - Eva March Tappan
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IT once came to pass that I was requested to read some notes of travel written by a lady who had gone over an exceedingly interesting route. At the end of the manuscript, my first thought was, How glad I am that I was not obliged to take that journey with her!
Judging by what she had written, the only places that had aroused her enthusiasm were those at which she had found well-prepared dinners, and she had passed through that delightful country with hardly a thought of its beauty or its associations. The old Roman Seneca was right when he said, more than eighteen hundred years ago, He that would make his travels delightful must first make himself delightful.
That is why traveling in books is such a pleasure. You can choose whatever route you like, and you can be sure of good company. Moreover, if the time comes when you are tired of even the best society, you can close the book without a By your leave,
and wander away into some wonderland of the imagination not mentioned in the