Excerpt from Rambles in Catholic Lands It was my good fortune to be invited to accompany a friend through South Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Tyrol into Italy. Many of our halting-places were somewhat out of the beaten track, and for that reason the record of them may prove of interest to others. Our first resting stage - not a thoroughly Catholic one, yet - was Hamburg. It cannot be reached from our northern shores (unfortunately) without the crossing of the German Ocean - a sea of a somewhat turbulent nature; let the narrative, therefore, of that woful passage be buried in oblivion. Many persons may possibly regard Hamburg (as I confess to have done myself) as a large and important commercial center, indeed, but one without much pretension to beauty as a city. The idea is quite erroneous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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