PUBLISHERS' NOTE
This volume gives the only description in English of the Vatican, considered, not as a collection of museums, but as the Royal Palace of the Popes, since Mr. Sladen's well-known book, The Secrets of the Vatican, is now completely out of print, and can never be published again, part of it remaining in the hands of the original publishers, Messrs. Hurst & Blackett, and part having been transferred to ourselves. This was because the chapters of the book which related to the home-life of the Pope necessarily need changing much oftener than the parts which describe the Vatican Palace itself. Those portions have been brought up to date, and are published, with some very interesting new matter included, by Messrs. Hurst & Blackett, under the title of The Pope at Home. The remainder of the book, likewise brought up to date, and with certain interesting additions, constitutes How to See the Vatican.
