Excerpt from Our Travelling Party in Paris and Amsterdam In England the American traveller feels at home. The people speak a language with which he is familiar; the habits and customs, the religious observances, the social developments, resemble the styles of life seen in his own land. His sympathies move on with the steady march of English ideas, and constantly he finds something to remind him of the great nation on the other shore of the broad Atlantic. But when he crosses that narrow channel, and steps out upon the continent, he feels that he is among strange people, in a land of strange customs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.