NOTE 



THE author of the paragraphs on the English 

 and Villa Hvidore Gardens, " Bygdo Kongs- 

 gaard," " The Magnolia Tree, Aranjuez," 

 Portugal,- and Russia, wishes to acknowledge 

 indebtedness, among several books consulted, to 

 the following, from which numerous extracts 

 have been taken : " Round About Piccadilly 

 and Pall Mall"; " Denmark," by A. de Flaux ; 

 " Courts of the North," by Brown ; " Norway," 

 by L'Enault ; " History of Norway," by H. H. 

 Boyesen ; George Sorrow's "Bible in Spain"; 

 R. Nisbet Bain's " Rise of the Romanoffs." 



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