Excerpt from Memorials of Willard Fiske, Vol. 2: The Traveller His journalistic experience began at an early date. During the years when as a mere youth he travelled and studied in Europe, and in the course of many ensuing sojourns abroad from Iceland to Egypt, he wrote for various American periodicals engaging descriptions of his peregrinations in the countries which he visited. Many of these communications, dating back to 1850, would now be difficult or im possible of recovery, but for the paternal solicitude of Mr. Fiske's father, who for years excerpted these fugitive newspaper articles, and with pious pride preserved them, together with other family per sonalia, in a voluminous old-fashioned ledger-scrap book. Old-fashioned, too, is the punctuation, much of which has been retained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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