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_The following, each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, profusely illustrated. Net, $2.00; postpaid, $2.16_
_Rambles in Normandy_ _Rambles in Brittany_ _The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine_
_The following, each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, profusely illustrated. Postpaid, $2.50_
_The Cathedrals of Northern France_ _The Cathedrals of Southern France_
_L. C. PAGE & COMPANY New England Building, Boston, Mass._
_Copyright, 1905_ BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED)
_COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U.S.A._
The following pages are not intended to be a record of all the historic and picturesque features of the ancient province of Normandy. The most that is claimed is that they are the record of a series of ramblings in and off the beaten tourist track, with the addition of a few facts of history and romance, which could not well be ignored.
The scheme of the book as set forth in the table of contents will explain this plan far better than any author's apology; and will also explain why a more ample guide-book treatment is not given to the cities and large towns such as Rouen, the ancient Norman capital; Caen, the capital of Lower Normandy; and Dieppe, and Evreux. All this, and more, with much information of a varying nature from that set forth herein, is given by Joanne, Baedeker, and the local guide-books, which in France are unusually numerous and trustworthy.
These rambles, of the author and artist, extending over some years of wanderings and residence within the province, are, then, merely the record of personal experiences, of no very venturesome or exciting nature, combined with those half-hidden facts which only come to one through an intimate acquaintance.