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THE LURE OF THE CAMERA. Illustrated.
THE COUNTRY OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Illustrated.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York
THE LURE OF THE CAMERA
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| THE STEPPING STONES |
THE LURE OF THE
CAMERA
BY
CHARLES S. OLCOTT
Author of “George Eliot: Scenes and People of
her Novels” and “The Country
of Sir Walter Scott”
ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
BY THE AUTHOR
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge1914
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY CHARLES S. OLCOTT
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published September 1914
TO MY BOYS
GAGE, CHARLES, AND HOWARD
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED
PREFACE
The difference between a ramble and a journeyis about the same as that between pleasureand business. When you go anywhere for aserious purpose, you make a journey; but if yougo for pleasure (and don’t take the pleasure tooseriously, as many do) you only ramble.
The sketches in this volume, which takes itsname from the first chapter, are based upon“rambles,” which were for the most part merelyincidental excursions, made possible by various“journeys” undertaken for more serious purposes.It has been the practice of the author formany years to carry a camera on his travels, sothat, if chance should take him within easy distanceof some place of literary, historic, or scenicinterest, he might not miss the opportunity topursue his favorite avocation.
If the reader is asked to make long flights, asfrom Scotland to Italy, then back, across the Atlantic,to New England, and thence overland toWyoming and Arizona, he must remember thatramblers take no account of distance or direction.In this case they must take no account of time,for these rambles are but the chance happeningsthat have occurred at in