The record-union., 1891-12-09
Largest bottle, most effective, same price.
BENEFITED BY FICTION.
What Takes Thousands of People t
Europe.

What Takes Thousands of People to
Europe.
How many people realize that Ameri-
can tourists leave in this country from
ten to twenty millions sterling at least
per annum! Such is the fact Does any-
body imagine that they come here to look
at our buildings and streets? No. Upon
reflection, nobody can fail to see that the
main reason why the bulk of them visit
us is TO see the places made memorable
by Shakespeare and Jonson, Scott and
Burns. Dickens and Thackeray, George
Eliot and Charlotte Bronte, BiacLmore
and Black. The Indebtedness of Gradgrind
to romance is, therefore, by no means in
considerable, particularly when it is re-
membered that we, too, spend q consider
able sum yearly III the same direction
Shakespeare has indirectly bestowed
millions of pounds on the inhabitants of
those places with which his name is
associated. Not TO mention Stratford-on-
Avon, there is. for example, Rochester,
a town which unites recollections of the
great dramatist and of Dickens Near
Gad's Hill stands an inn on the very
spot that Shakespeare doubtless had III
mind when writing that scene in Henry
~" where FalstaH meets with the men
in buckram." Round about, as every
body knows, are many districts and
buildings made famous by the creator
OF the Pickwick Club. To this neighbor-
hood American pilgrims come in shoals.
either before going or after having gone
round such bits OF Dickens London as
still remain.
Scott. when living, enriched whole dis
tricts. When ''St. Romans WelP' was
, published, the notables OF the town hon
ored in the romance ''voted by acclama-
tion," says Lockhart, ''that the old name
OF lnnerleithen should be, as far as DOS
sible, dropped thenceforth, and that of
St. Romans adopted. \ or were they mis-
taken in their augurieS. An unheard-O of
influx ofwater-bibbers forthwith crowned
their hopes; and spruce hotties and huge,
staring lodging houses soon arose to dis
turb Wofully every association that had
induced Sir Walter to make Innerleithen
the scene OF romance. Nor were they
who protited by these invasions Of the
genus toci at all sparing in their demon
strations Of gratitude. The traveller reads
on the corner of every new erection there
AbbotSford Place, Waverley Row, The
Marmion Hotel, or some inscription of
the like coinage" Such was one case in
point. The interest in the works of the
Northern Magician has, since his deaf h
scarcely, if at all, diminished. Abbots-
ford itself is still so popular a resort that
the fees paid by visitors amount to about
9400 year, and tourists 90 about in as
great number as of yore, the Lady OF
the Lake" MarmlOn,' or one Of the
Scotch novels in hand, looking up the
places they have long pictured in imagi-
nation, with much the same feelings that
/ Golden had when he visited Burns
| birthplace. "He describes himself" SAYS
John Morley, ''as boiling over with en-
thusiasm upon approaching 'Alloway's
auld haunted kirk the Brig O. Doom, and
the scene of Tam o. Shanter's headlong
ride" though the hero worship was
driven out Of him, as it has been out of
many other tourists by the inevitable
knocking about place haIlowed by great
deeds or celebrated by words that live.
On the principle that the punishment
should fit the crime, such men ought to
have blasting operations constantly go
ing on in their back garden, and be made
to turn tread-mill in order to get to bed.
-Casse ellis Sunday Journal.