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Title: Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine

Author: Edward A. Freeman

Commentator: W. H. Hutton

Release Date: March 13, 2008 [EBook #24818]

Language: English

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SKETCHES OF TRAVEL

IN

NORMANDY AND MAINE

[Illustration: Decoration]

[Illustration: St. Stephens, Caen, E.

_Frontispiece_]

SKETCHES OF TRAVEL

IN

NORMANDY AND MAINE

BY

EDWARD A. FREEMAN

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR

AND A PREFACE BY

W.H. HUTTON, B.D.

FELLOW AND TUTOR OF S. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1897

_All rights reserved_

RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON AND BUNGAY.

EDITOR'S NOTE

The first eight and the last four of these sketches appeared in the
_Saturday Review_, the others in the _Guardian_. They are here reprinted
with a few omissions, but with no other alteration. The permission
courteously given to reproduce them is gratefully acknowledged.

FLORENCE FREEMAN.

PREFACE

"Beyond doubt the finished historian must be a traveller: he must see
with his own eyes the true look of a wide land; he must see, too, with
his eyes the very spots where great events happened; he must mark the
lie of a city, and take in, as far as a non-technical eye can, all that
is special about a battle-field."

So wrote Mr. Freeman in his _Methods of Historical Study_,[1] and he
possessed to the full the instincts of the traveller as well as of the
historian. His studies and sketches of travels, already published, have
shown him a wanderer in many lands and a keen observer of many peoples
and their cities. He travelled always as a student of