A YEAR IN EUROPE.
A YEAR IN EUROPE.
By
WALTER W. MOORE, D. D., LL. D.
President of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
THIRD EDITION
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
The Presbyterian Committee of Publication
1905
Copyrighted
BY
WALTER W. MOORE,
1904.
Printed by
Whittet & Shepperson,
Richmond, Va.
TO
My Traveling Companions
This Book is Dedicated
as a Memento
of happy days in the Old World.
FOREWORD.
The only excuse I have to offer for the publicationof these desultory and chatty letters in this more permanentform is that a number of my friends haverequested it. Many of the letters have already appearedin the columns of The Children's Friend, forwhich they were originally written, at the instance ofthe Presbyterian Committee of Publication; but I haveincluded in the volume several letters which werewritten for other periodicals, and a considerable numberwhich have not been published anywhere till now.Some of them were written hastily, and, as it were, onthe wing, others with more deliberation and care.Some were intended for young readers, others for olderpeople. This will account for the differences of styleand subject matter which will strike every one, andwhich will be particularly noticeable when the lettersare read consecutively.
In some cases I have drawn the materials, in part,from other sources besides my own observations, themain object at times being not originality, but accuracyand fullness of information. In such cases I haveendeavored to make full acknowledgment of my indebtednessto other writers.
As most of the letters were written for a denominationalpaper, they naturally contain a good many[Pg vi]references to notable events in the history of the PresbyterianChurch, and to some of the differences betweenthat church and others in matters of doctrine,polity and forms of worship. But I trust that in nocase have I felt or expressed a spirit of uncharitablesectarianism. If any reader should receive the impressionthat I have done so in one or two instances, Irequest him to suspend judgment till he has read allthe references to such matters contained in the letters.It will then be seen that if I have had occasion to makesome strictures upon the Anglican and Roman CatholicChurches, I