The Cruise of the Elena; Or, Yachting in the Hebrides

The Cruise of the Elena is a London journalist's holiday cruise traveling along the Scottish coast. J. Ewing Ritchie writes revealing reviews of Victorian society through a journalist's lens. Excerpt: "The late—I had almost written the last—Imperial ruler of France was wont to say—indeed, it was his favorite maxim—"Everything comes to him who waits." It was not exactly true in his case."