BY THE AUTHOR OF 'BUBBLES FROM THE BRUNNEN OF NASSAU.' "as I pursu'd my journey, I spy'd a wrinkled Hag, with Age grown double, OTWAY. IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1852. 203. l. 150. PREFACE. NEARLY forty years ago I happened to be in Paris for three or four months. Lately, on a very short notice, I had occasion to go to it again. Being detained there rather more than three weeks by an oculist whose prescriptions confined me to the house several hours a day, I eked out the rest of my time by taking a few notes. In passing through London I had hastily obtained eight or ten letters of introduction but as on reading Galignani's excellent guidebook, I found that everything I could reasonably desire to see would, on application in writing, or on the production of my passport, be thrown open to me with almost a single exception-I |