New-York tribune., 1880-10-03
the pictures of Europe In Mr. Mark Twain's volumes
of travels are Photographic in their fidelity.

far from H. II means rather that people DO not
always make q wise uSN either or gnlue-pooh' VI
pndes MIR. Cook being. il YOU look at him coseiy'
only guide on a rather larger scale than usu'i'
Murray and Baedeker and Cook are surely not per
mitted 10 cnmber the earth WI h0ut a purpose ana
their well meant labors do bear fruit OF certain
kind-some of it green. aud all needing to DC eaten
dscreetly. A guide-boOk, like some other coh'e-
niences is an excellent servant ana Dad na7ler'
OF Mr. Cook the same thing NAV be said. HIS sSs-
TEN has good features; il is the very worst oi then'
nerhaps. on which have dwelt. If he
would suppress absolutely his conductors
and his parties. and confle himself TO the sell
ing of tickets-by way of god nature l VIII
even add hotel coupons-hIs usefulness wouid
not be diminished but increased. Mr. Cooks
scheme IS, however, a commercial one ana nc
doubtless conducts 1t. "a he has right to. WIN "a
view TO his own profit; and finds his account In the
weakness and general heDlessDess OF the human
race He has perceived with earlier conquerors
and with the political ph!osOphers-of whom Mr'
CARLYLE Is now the chief-that the thing men most
want and will pay highest for is a master; and he
supplies the article he conceiyes 20 be III demand
TIMIDnY or TOURISTS.
There certainly are large numbers OF adult Eng
lsh who attend to their OwE business at home. but
who like 70 lie taken abroad rs little children are
taken abroad TO be led by the hand Il do not say
by the nosel all over what tHey call the Continong
to be dry nursed and to have the pebbles picked
ont of their path; to have the spending of their
hours and minutes arranged for them; to be al
lowed twenty minutes for a cathedral aud forty in
which to acquire good knowledge of thousand
pictures. IL may be said. nevertheless. that
great deal of the development Mr.. Cooks
system las taken is due to a kind of nervous
terror which befaIs tie Euglishman about to
travel in strange lands the language OF
winch no does not speak. Cook is n phenomenon
who must be accounted for somehow, aud | ac-
count for him on what seems the simplest theory.
take it, Mr.. Cooks tourists are people who go
abroad for the first time. The second time they
become aware-if the discipline they endure per-
mits them to become aware OF anything-that the
difficulties of foreign travel are much exaggerated
bv the Imagination. Ii oe only the most tlmld,
the most iudoleut, tine most submissive OF human
beings who would consent to wear Slr. Cooks col
lar for a second time
Ihave myself seen a good deal of this timidity,
and l had my own share of it when j first
set foot on the Continent Tie prevalence Of
uniforms. and particularly of buttons, is well
adapted to strike terror into the traveller unused 10
seeing industrial and fiscal servants aIrayed IN
what appear to him the habiliments Of war, and
discharging essentially peaceful dunes with more
than martial sternness OF bearing. lhe tone III
which the first porter you meet at Calais asks to
carry vonr dressing-bsg is that winch Won have
heard on the stage of your native land from the
mouth of a highwayman. The ragged tout If
second-rate hotel is equally peremptory; the rail-
yay guard far more so ; and as for the first cas-
tom-house officer you have to do with, it Is
difficult to resist the impression that he regards You
~ a criminal and that he will presently have you IN
custody for defraudng the revenue. For the first
ten minutes the most cOurag rOus of Anglo-SaXon
mOrtals may be excused for thinking his freedom III
ieopardy. After an hour day OF such encounters
they become amusing, and the gentieSt ot her sex
NAV not unreasonaby be expected 10 recover from
her agony. and perceive that no harm is meant by
this hectorlng department. Essentially. most OF
these officials are polite and hepful; though
disnosed TO exact from the foreigner a de-
gree of eeremonious attention to details Of
manner which the foreigner has not al
WAYS been wont to bestow on the best OF his own
people Between this administrative au>terity and
the untraveled BritOn, Cook comes III as butter.
He saves the nervous system from shock; or from
n succession of small shocks. the Custom House
officer excepted, no fuEcionary on the Continent,
imagine, would for moment concern himself about
any one of the human entities who compose a
Cooks party. Inc luhCtlOhdIf NOuiu N'dl Win
their conductor who Is the numeral at the left
hand indicating The value of all these ciphers,
whose benign influence again is probably ex-
erted quietly with the inspectors OF revenue
themselves. A smuggler is no more to be looked
for among Cooks companies than a wolf in n flock
of sooty sheep feeding in HYDE Park. If | have
the honor to number n Smugger among my readers
trust this may not seem to HIM to suggest fresh
expedent for the prosecution Of his peculiar form
OF industry. The discovery of one such would
bring lasting suspicion upon the most unofending
of the human race and inaict misery upon Mr..
Cook.
TIE AMERICAN TRAVELLER.
Whether Cook has taken root in America do not
know The American is so much more self-Teliant
and so much more in the habIt of taking care
of himself than his elder cousin of England, that /
should not think he would take himself to the
grandmotherly idea which Is the basis of Cooks
system. In any case, do once more assure him
that the difficulties and the annoyances of foreign
travel are enormously exaggerated; even those
which beset the traveller who will not take the
trouble to acquire a stock of travel talk Without
a word on his lips that is not pure American, lie
NAV Journey from Calais to ConstantinOple alone
or with his family, aud never once find
himself seriously embarrassed, either about
duties or sieht-seeingo or anything else. He will have
TO pay for his ignorance but that different branch
of the subject and deserves to be treated by itself
Ignorance always costs dear We generally soothe our
self-love by saying it Is experience we pay for He
will enjoy less than if he knew half-a-dozen lam
guages and see vastly less of the countries he visits
"a has been a thousand times remarked. But beg
him to believe that no will enjoy more and see more
than if he surrendered himself into any third persons
hands in order to be expressed over all the towns
and principalities of Europe, labelled this side u
with
IT, on the other hand it suits him to settle hi:
route beforehand, he may save himself some mo-
ments of waiting aud worry at railway ticket
offices by buying his ticket in advance at Cook
office in London. This again l recommend to no
body. would not myself be tied to u particular
route, and obliged to do it within a fixed limit o.
time If Mr. Cook would supply me with hotels