Excerpt from Travels in Europe and Northern Africa: A Woman's View And when the test of knowledge comes, it is so much better to be able to say, Yes, I remember what it is, than simply, I have studied about it. Actual sight will give the mind more understanding in a year than mere descriptions will in four. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.