Mr. Grant Allen's new series of Historical Guides....
There are few more satisfactory books for a student who wishes to dig
out the Paris of the past from the immense superincumbent mass of
coffee-houses, kiosks, fashionable hotels, and other temples of
civilisation beneath which it is now submerged. Florence is more easily
dug up, as you have only to go into the picture galleries or into the
churches or museums, whither Mr. Allen's Guide accordingly conducts you,
and tells you what to look at if you want to understand the art
treasures of the city. The books, in a word, explain rather than
describe.... Such books are wanted nowadays.... The more sober minded
among tourists will be grateful to him for the skill with which the new
series promises to minister to their needs."

_The Queen._--"No traveller going to Florence with an idea of
understanding its art treasures can afford to dispense with Mr. Allen's
Guide. He is saturated with information gained by close observation and
close study. He is so candid, so sincere, so fearless, so interesting."

MR. L. F. AUSTIN in the _Sketch_.--"His 'Paris' is certainly an
admirable example of what a purely aesthetic handbook should be, for it
is clearly arranged, and written with that ease and intricacy which are
borne of sympathy and knowledge."

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

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Malay words were spelled with diacritics or accents which cannot be
rendered in this etext. To view these diacritics, please use the
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The following diacritics are found in the Malay words in the original
text:

breves, indicating short vowels; these typically occur as the
first vowel in a Malay word (mostly e, but sometimes a, i, u).
Letters with breve accents have been replaced with just the
letter themselves.

circumflexes (e.g. a) indicating long vowels; these have been
replaced with just the letter themselves.

vowels with diaeresis (e.g. a) indicating vowels which should be
sounded separately; these have also been replaced with just the
letters themselves.

glottal stops; in the original text, these were indicated by a
character similar to a cu