THE American Woman needs no introduction abroad.

     Always she is the most welcome of the throngs of self-invited guests who attend the great annual "At Home" which the European world holds for the visiting strangers, an entertainment that is becoming an all the year around function.

     All that Europe has to offer is hers on call, so long as she radiates that graciousness and appreciation which everywhere distinguishes her--the most vivacious and distinctive feminine personality of all the women of the world to be seen on the European Playground.

     To the American woman abroad is due the credit of having so far influenced the conventions and traditions of the Old World as to have it recognise and accept with good grace (in so far at least as her own actions are concerned) a new standard of feminine conduct--freer and more independent than its own, but none the less modest and self-protective.

     The scheme of the following chapters is that of discursive comments on the more intimate and personal phases of life in European countries which might be of interest to the American woman at home or abroad; whether she is the casual summer bird of passage across the Atlantic, or is planning a house-hunting tour of Europe, or only wants to read about it comfortably at home.

     In this book, it is hoped, will be found set forth fairly and correctly the results of the observations of one who has tried to study the values in the foreign picture with an open mind.

Toulon, France. B. McM.

THE COST OF LIVING ABROAD

SERVANTS AND THE SERVANT QUESTION

FOREIGN MARKETS AND MARKETING

SOME HOUSEKEEPING EXPERIENCES

THE LONE WOMAN TRAVELLER

TIPS AND TIPPING

THE EUROPEAN SHOPPING TOUR

CLOTHES AND THE WOMAN

THE MEN DRESSMAKERS OF PARIS AND LONDON

THE SOCIAL SIDE

CITIES OF PLEASURE

THE COUNTRY HOTELS OF EUROPE

WOMAN AND THE EUROPEAN HOTEL

LIGHT REFRESHMENTS

THE WOMAN TRAVELLER AND THE FRENCH CAFÉ

SOME GERMAN SPAS

ARTISTS' SKETCHING-GROUNDS ABROAD

WINTER SPORTS IN SWITZERLAND

THE WOMAN AND THE CAR

THE TOURING CLUB DE FRANCE AND HOW IT AIDS THE TRAVELLER

FRENCH LAW FOR FOREIGNERS




VILLA LIFE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE

THE WATER SUPPLY

BIRTHDAY GIFTS

A MEDITERRANEAN MARKET

A BLANCHISSEUSE OF NORMANDY

THE WAY AROUND ALGERIA

WHEN THE NATIVE LADY GOES SHOPPING IN NORTH AFRICA

SOCIETY DINES OUT OF DOORS

ON THE RIVIERA

ON THE COTE D'EMERAUD----NORMANDY

HOTEL GARDEN--MONTREUX

THE HOUR OF THE APERITIF

DÉJEUNER--HOTEL BELLEVUE LES ANDELYS

FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE COOK

A COUNTRY HOTEL OF FRANCE