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THE
Old World and Its Ways
BY
William Jennings Bryan
DESCRIBING
A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD
AND
JOURNEYS THROUGH EUROPE
ST. LOUIS
The Thompson Publishing Company
1907
Copyright 1907
By William Jennings Bryan
Author's Preface
This volume is published in response to numerous requests from manysections, and my purpose is to put in permanent and convenient form theobservations made during travels in the old world.
The illustrations will throw light on the subjects treated and it is believedwill add much to the interest. The photographs from which they were madewere collected at the places visited or taken by members of our party. Chaptersone to forty-six were written from time to time during the trip around theworld.
I was accompanied on this tour by my wife and our two younger children,William J., Jr., and Grace, aged sixteen and fourteen years respectively. Thetrip was taken for educational purposes and proved far more instructive thanwe anticipated.
We left our home September 21, 1905, sailed from San Francisco September27, and arrived in New York August 29, 1906—the day before the datefixed for the home-coming reception in that city—and reached Lincoln September5, sixteen days less than a year after our departure.
While most of our travel was in the North Temperate Zone, we werebelow the Equator a few days in Java and above the Arctic Circle in Norway.
In this narrative I fear I have sacrificed literary style to conciseness, for