Excerpt from With the Royal Tour: A Narrative of the Recent Tour, of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, Through Greater Britain, Including, His Royal Highness's Speech Delivered at the Guildhall, on December 5, 1901 This is a book of first impressions; for I have thought it best, in publishing this record of the re cent world-wide royal tour, to preserve, so far as was possible, the form and matter of my correspondence to the Morning Post, ' despatched at the time from the various places visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Those letters, published in full, would have formed an over-bulky book. I have therefore submitted them to considerable abridgment while adding very little to them. I have thus omitted many details of the various ceremonies, receptions, displays, and functions generally; for all this has been twice and thrice told, and after the fireworks have spluttered out it is a vain task to attempt the painting of their glow in words. But I have preserved all that I have written concerning the spirit which prompted those warm welcomes to B. 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.