Constantinople

THE reception accorded to “Constantinople” both in this country and Europe, exceeded my most sanguine expectations. A book which had for its theme a capital at once so famous, so fascinating, and yet so little known, was doubtless sure of finding a place.

None the less am I grateful to the press and the public for their cordial welcome. Though this is a carefully revised edition, as few changes as possible in the original have been made, and the work is substantially the same as when first published. The next score of years will transform Constantinople.

Much that is described in these pages will soon vanish, “and the tourist seek it in vain”. But as long as this book lasts, it will preserve the careful panorama of the capital as it was in the last year of the nineteenth century.

EDWIN A. GROSVENOR.