In the mid-1840s, poet Bayard Taylor wrote accounts of his walking tours of England, France, Germany, and Italy for the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines, later collecting them into this book.
Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Harlan Cozad McIntosh, Bayard Taylor, Sheridan Le Fanu, Theodore Winthrop, Jack Saul, Lucas Malet, Henry Blake Fuller, Petronius, Sappho & Clemence Dane
Victor Hugo, Henry James, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Howitt, William Makepeace Thackeray, Augustus J. C. Hare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Grant Allen, John Ruskin, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine & Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Plato, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rabindranath Tagore, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Walt Whitman, Niccolò Machiavelli, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Confucius, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Weedon Grossmith, Jack London, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, George Eliot, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Benito Pérez Galdós, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Kalidasa, Kenneth Grahame, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Gaston Leroux, Charles Baudelaire, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Voltaire, Kate Chopin, Apuleius, John Milton, Frederick Douglass, Laozi, John Keats, James Joyce, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Kahlil Gibran, Kakuzo Okakura, Soseki Natsume, Princess Der Ling, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, L. M. Montgomery, C. S. Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lewis Wallace, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, George Bernard Shaw, Miguel de Cervantes, Mary Shelley, Cao Xueqin, Émile Zola, Valmiki, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, P. B. Shelley, Elizabeth von Arnim, Herman Hesse, Dante, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Sun Tzu, Inazo Nitobe, James Legge, Andrew Lang, Bayard Taylor, Ellen Marriage, Samuel Butler, Thomas Seltzer, Lionel Giles, Constance Garnett, Havelock Ellis, Benjamin Jowett, Miriam S. Knight, Louise Maude, Thomas Common, C. J. Hogarth, Alexander Pope, John Payne, Aylmer Maude, Helen Zimmern, William F. Fleming, Cyril Scott, William Robson, Gunther Olesch, W. K. Marriott, Ralph T. H. Griffith, Arthur W. Ryder, Yasotarō Mōri, Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Frederick Amadeus Malleson, Lewis Page Mercier, Isabel Hapgood, Horace B. Samuel, H. W. Longfellow, William Adlington, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer, Semyon Chaichenets, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Edward Fitzgerald, Henry Bencraft Joly & Walter Sir Scott
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Bayard Taylor, John Ruskin, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Howitt, Augustus J. C. Hare, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine & Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
