AT HOME AND ABROAD, OR THINGS AND THOUGHTS IN America and Europe. BY MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI, AUTHOR OF "WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,' "PAPERS ON LITERATURE EDITED BY HER BROTHER, BOSTON: CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON, & CO. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: PREFACE. THERE are at least three classes of persons who travel in our own land and abroad. The first and largest in number consists of those who, "having eyes, see not, and ears, hear not," anything which is profitable to be remembered. Crossing lake and ocean, passing over the broad prairies of the New World or the classic fields of the Old, though they look on the virgin soil sown thickly with flowers by the hand of God, or on scenes memorable in man's history, they gaze heedlessly, and when they return home can but tell us what they ate and drank, and where slept, no more; for this and matters of like import are all for which they have cared in their wanderings. Those composing the second class travel more intelligently. They visit scrupulously all places which are noted either as the homes of literature, the abodes of Art, or made classic by the pens of ancient genius. Accurately do they mark the distance of one famed city from another, the size and general appearance of each; they see as many as possible of celebrated pictures and works of art, and mark carefully dimensions, age, and all details concerning them. Men, too, whom the world regards as great men, whether because of wisdom, poesy, warlike |