Seeing France with Uncle John: THIS book is the story of four imaginary people who accompanied me over the same ground upon the same days in October 1906.

THIS book is the story of four imaginary people who accompanied me over the same ground upon the same days in October 1906. Their views of what I saw were as distinct to me as my own, and their feelings were more so. Their pleasures and discom- forts came to me in vivid words everywhere, and I really did no more than a stenographer's work in setting it all down later. If any reader gets only one third the amusement that the whole has given me