11445.26. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE BEQUEST OF 1918 ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by D. APPLETON & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. ANECDOTES have been described by one of our brightest Humorists as corresponding in Literature with the Sauces, the savory dishes of a banquet. Another writer, of the same Augustan age, has described an anecdote as bearing the same relation to History and Biography that an epigram bears to an epic poem, or a proverb to a moral discourse. This collection contains, for the most part, anecdotes of an amusing character of travels and travelers, in which all countries are well represented. To those who are not able to give a fixed attention so necessary in reading a connected story, this volume is peculiarly adapted: at all events, it is hoped that the tedium of travel may be occasionally relieved by the perusal of them. |