The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-30

A jaunt through France, Switzerland and
Germany took up seventy-siE days and in
volved an outlay Of $Io6. The distance
trayersed is set at 2 .3s2 miles.
From Boulogne TO Paris and throughout
travel was by diligence, except from Brus-
sells to Antwerp, when he travelled by rail.
THE flight Iof an hour and a half was not in
a balloon. but in the car of L Chemin de Fer,
for be IL known the Yankee notions are
spreading 80 far that there are two rail-
roads, OF ~twenty-four and sixty miles,
actually in operation on the continent of
Europe. n moreover there are three or
-four more contemplated or commenced;
First. from Frankfort to Ostend; sec
ond. to Hamburg; third, to Berlin; fourth,
to Basel, and from Vienna TO Trieste and
Milan" are facts stated by the bachelor,
who then moralizes, Verify, the tour Of
Europe will be no such great affair when
such things be- 1t will lose all its ro-
nance"
The pavilions on the sea at Boulogne re-
minded the loyal New Yorker Of Far Rocka-
way. At Paris he took lodgings in the Rue
dEnfer and worked earnestly at seeing the
sights and the lions.
One evening he went to see Taglionl-
"and what a bound was that! Surely she
is not Of flesh and blood! Such airy light
ness, such exquisite grace-the very poetry
of m~otionl'' he writes in rhapsody. Said
the Yankee doctor who accompanied him.
She's quite a spry little thing"
Two days in a hotel at Paris cost fourteen
francs, an apartment for two weeks fifteen
francs and meals. DC. forty-six francs, an
expenditure that might buy a dinner to-day
at one of the swell restaurants. He had
now been seven and a half months in Europe
and thus summarizes his outlay: In Eng
land and Scotland, $500; France, Switzerland
and Germany, $500; passage both ways, 1925,
and, not hitherto mentioned, for fees,
guides. passports and sundries, 500. The
grand tour had cost 1925.
And who was the travelling bachelor who
wrote The Tourist in Europe with so
many hints on expenses and the interesting
personal memoranda? II was a iind for a
nickel at a second hand book stall and is
inscribed only, by the Author Of An Intro
duction and Index TO General History
The memoranda are in the form of letters
to his mother and familiar friends and
some. of them had appeared. according to a
footnote. in the Rnickerbocker magazine.
Research on the two clues in the Aston
Library did not reveal his identity. The
book is not in the collection and the kRick-
orbocker files begin only with Volume 43,
dated 1854. James Fenimore Cooper used
the ~pseudonym of "A Travelling Bachelor
for a Dol Of structures on American man
ners, but his was not until 1855.
They all quoted Scott and Byron in the
Hicherbocker set of that period and the
traveller had both at his tongues end.
His letter from Melross was written in the
sanded parlor of The George. where lodged
Al WY q Va lSA' AihNN haNA' hSeh HANA u
antiquary, Captain Clutterbuck. A guide
told him that Melrose Abbey was the Mon
astery" of that novel. At midnight he again
visited the spot to see Fair Melrose Alright,
by the pale moonlight"
He quotes nearly the whole Of the poem
when in the classic and romantic region
Of The Lady Of the Lake. Similarly il
was not in human nature TO pass the Castle
OF Chillon without quoting Byron, and,
when at Liege. he notes that it was the
- .En nttrIo AF yhn DfalorN Ia, 49,, I
tin Durward." Nowadays Americans in
England seek the Genes pictured by Dick
ems. Thaokeray and Blackmore.
Wherever the New Yorker called the ques-
ton Of slavery came on the carret. This
was two years before John Browns raid.
little attention to the subject, was surprised
the vehemence of the denuncla ii ions.
DR.. Dick. author of The Christian
Philosopher" whom he visited in Scotland, |
said NE did not understand why the blacks
were not admitted into society and con-
as equals in intellect with the
whites. 1t was the same in England. In
London, in response to a petition for n
pass to the House of Commons. Daniel
O'Connell wrote on the back of the note: |
"Finding MIR. - Ia not a resident of n
slaveholding State Mr.. O'Connell has the
honor to comply with his request"
The traveller was patriotic. The one
superiority he would yield to the scenery
OF the AIDS over tlle nlte mountains or
the Catskills was in its vastness. and he
declared the Hudson and the Connecticut
more beautiful than the Rhine. In the
of mentor the bachelor makes these
observations. that seem wise after seventy
years:
AN American who conducts himself as
a patriotic and gentlemanly American
do has no reason to be ashamed of
his name or nation. He belongs 10 Natures
n~obility-and to a country uneGualled in
extent, beauty. and natural advantages
by any on earth. and he may with reason
be proud of it. On the other hand, avoid
referring to it by invidious comparisons
Or lofty boasts.
Let nothing appear on your luggage
10 indicate that YOU are an American or a
by taking You in A little au-
thority and decision and a sort of knowing
will snmntimns snrvn Won ndvnn-