Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-01-28
2AVEL IN EUROPE OF
LAST CENTURY TOLD IN
my UNKNOWN CHUM'

Many years ago-we have no way
knowing the exact date. but judg-
by the context, It might have been
late af;ies or early sixties book
sketches and essays was published
p!y called "Agueeheek." \ copy OF
Is took came into the hands ii
cn-y Garrity. who considered il
orthy Of repr.n;ing. and. in 1912 he
refaeed an edition OF il under the
lie OF NY Unknown Chum." Aguc-
eek had accompanied him so long
I'd faithfully. that he had become an
ii friend Tut an old friend who's =
i,n,lty could never lie aearned even
cough his work Nigh; be Derpet
atea
My Unknown Chum" Is again re
r.nted n 1922, (Deyin Adair Coz.
I'd, IN these postwar days, II is o..
uaIni interest TO those who have
me more taken W European plea
sure travel
Agueeheek was gentlemans 81
aRch observation, and a pleasant
aense OF humour His sketches OF for
Ign travel are delightfully."- writer
To London, Paris and Brussels Of his
ay were evidently. in the main, much
the voyager Ends them now. but
,ha llt,le, old-time differences that
creep into the narrative lend il 4
naive charm. His trip across the
ocean Tears some resemblance to mod
m crossings-with the triiiing ex
option that his voyage consumes
ZONE thirty-three days!
Ia writing of the exaggerated ideas
II the average American regarding
he expense Of going TO Europe. he
Walntly says:
Il know, too. that a person ca
sil from Boston TO Liverpool. make
= summer trip OF two months and
IL TO Paris, via London and the eli
es OF Belgium. and back 10 Boston.
Or trifie over two hundred and flfty
nllars. A good room in London
IN be got for two dollars and half
week. in Paris for eight dollars
n0nth. In Rome and Florence for four
cllars a month, and in the cities q
'crmanY for considerably less. AMI
good dinner costs about thirty cents
] London. nthirty-five in Paris, fifteen
twenty-five In Florence or Rome,
even less in Germany"
t.hodou nf ha Nar{nug Dfg,ogt
lie Also advises the traveller, when
has selected a room. and his valise
been brought up he will probably
u serve that the servant (if 1t is even
NJ, has lighted both OF the candles
IN the mantelpiece. He will immc-
+. ltely blow one of them out and hand
10 the waiter. with a look that will
Nv him that he is dealing with an
yperienced traveller, who knows that
has 70 pay for candles as he burns
lem. When he leaves the hotel he
y make, Il principle always tie
'rrg the, upconsumed candle or can
lssowiihr him"
.3gL, aside from these little prac-
ia al admonitions, his ramblings are
aasant. with a fine, philosophical
avor. He does not conline himself 90
o8criptions of sight seeing by any
1eans. but allows himself many whim-
ical detours. There is whole dis
artation on the third Napoleon. nj
80 time Emperor of the French, ana
HON Aguecheek greatly admires. IL
q is how the foreign commerce Of
'ance has been increased by the En-
eror. and how Napoleon's "favorita
'fOiect for a ship canal through the
sthfnus of Suez is now numbered
n ong the probabilities OF the age
When the prejudices OF the presen.
a. shall have died out, the histor-
~ will relate how devoted Napoleon
II was TO everything that concerned
Is country's welfare"
j this Mr. Aguecheek may have
"laced himself among the false proph-
Is. Nevertheless he will have to be
orgiven on account of the pleasure
gives In book that is really good
nd written in q way that is worth
leSding-though 1t may not number
] self with the ultra-modernists