FROM GERMANY AND BELGIUM. BY AN AUTUMN TOURIST. LONDON: STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LUDGATE STREET. MDCCCXXXIX. PREFACE. THE following Letters were written in fulfilment of a promise, made previous to the commencement of the tour they describe, to some friends residing in distant parts of the world; and the writer's intention was simply to communicate to them such information and impressions as he received during the journey, in the briefest possible manner. is therefore hoped that these pages may be considered to be, as they really are, notes, or hasty sketches, intended chiefly to gratify personal friends, and making no pretension to the character of finished productions, such as the public usually look for. It The larger portion of their contents having indeed been published in two of the monthly |