Round the World

Round the World

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ROUND THE WORLD
BY ANDREW CARNEGIE

PREFACE
It seems almost unnecessary to say that "Round the World," like "An
American Four-in-Hand in Britain," was originally printed for private
circulation. My publishers having asked permission to give it to the
public, I have been induced to undertake the slight revision, and to
make some additions necessary to fit the original for general circulation,
not so much by the favorable reception accorded to the "Four-in-Hand"
in England as well as in America, nor even by the flattering words of
the critics who have dealt so kindly with it, but chiefly because of many
valued letters which entire strangers have been so extremely good as to
take the trouble to write to me, and which indeed are still coming
almost daily. Some of these are from invalids who thank me for making
the days during which they read the book pass more brightly than
before. Can any knowledge be sweeter to one than this? These letters
are precious to me, and it is their writers who are mainly responsible
for this second volume, especially since some who have thus written
have asked where it could be obtained and I have no copies to send to
them, which it would have given me a rare pleasure to be able to do.
I hope they will like it as they did the other. Some friends consider it
better; others prefer the "Four-in-Hand." I think them different. While
coaching I was more joyously happy; during the journey round the
World I was gaining more knowledge; but if my readers like me half as
well in the latter as in the former mood, I shall have only too much
cause to subscribe myself with sincere thanks,
Most gratefully,

THE AUTHOR.

"Think on thy friends when thou haply see'st Some rare, noteworthy
object in thy travels, Wish them partakers of thy happiness."

ROUND THE WORLD.
NEW YORK, Saturday, October 12, 1878.
Bang! click! the desk closes, the key turns, and good-bye for a year to
my wards--that goodly cluster over which I have watched with parental
solicitude for many a day; their several cribs full of records and
labelled Union Iron Mills, Lucy Furnaces, Keystone Bridge Works,
Union Forge, Cokevale Works, and last, but not least, that infant
Hercules, the Edgar Thomson Steel Rail Works--good lusty bairns all,
and well calculated to survive in The struggle for existence--great
things are expected of them in The future, but for the present I bid them
farewell; I'm off for a holiday, and the rise and fall of iron and steel
"affecteth me not."
Years ago, Vandy, Harry, and I, standing in the very bottom of the
crater of Mount Vesuvius, where we had roasted eggs and drank to the
success of our next trip, resolved that some day, instead of turning back
as we had then to do, we would make a tour round the Ball. My first
return to Scotland and journey through Europe was an epoch in my life,
I had so early in my days determined to do it; to-day another epoch
comes--our tour fulfils another youthful aspiration. There is a sense of
supreme satisfaction in carrying out these early dreams which I think
nothing else can give, it is such a triumph to realize one's castles in the
air. Other dreams remain, which in good time also must come to pass;
for nothing can defeat these early inborn hopes, if one lives,