Greece

The Parthenon

South-west Corner

From a drawing made by H. W. Williams in 1829

Studies of Travel

by

Edward A. Freeman

Greece

“IN THE LIFE OF CITIES NOTHING PRESERVES LIKE EARLY OVERTHROW,
NOTHING DESTROYS LIKE CONTINUOUS LIFE.”—P. 120

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

The Knickerbocker Press

COPYRIGHT, 1893
BY
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London
By G. P. Putnam’s Sons

Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
G. P. Putnam’s Sons

TO THE MEMORY,
OF
MARGARET EVANS,
THE COMPANION IN GREEK TRAVEL
OF HER FATHER,
THE WRITER OF THESE PAPERS,
THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED
BY HER SISTER

Preface

The papers that have been brought together in these small volumes arethe results of three several journeys made by my father in Greeceand Italy. He visited Greece for the first time in 1877, but of thepapers written in that year, which appeared in the Saturday Review,only those on Corfu have been reprinted. They form part of the volumeof Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice, inthe preface to which work the hope was held out that some out ofmany papers on the more distant Greek lands might one day be puttogether. It has been thought that these papers will not prove theless welcome that they must now lack the re-casting that my fatherwould undoubtedly have given to them. Since his Greek journey was made,fresh light has been thrown on many points by the German excavations atOlympia as well as by those conducted by the Greeks themselves on theAthenian Akropolis, at Eleusis and elsewhere.

The papers on the two Italian journies of 1881 and 1883 also stand asthey were written with the exception of a few verbal alterations whichhave seemed needful in such a reproduction of what was originallyintended for the columns of a newspaper.

I have to thank the editors of the Saturday Review, the Guardian,and the Pall Mall Gazette for their courtesy in allowing the reprintof these articles which have appeared in their pages.

Florence Freeman,

    Alicante:
January 17, 1893.

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