New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
TIE GPAND TOUR.

~,,,-p rorr n TIKI EIGHTEENTH
lhFr Eg 1850 lam Ld"afd Mead; "iA
go .-.-.s sr.fr c1.-lmuo-al prints. $40. pp
~ Hauga'oa ANri.u Company.
The English literature Of the seven
,,s,.b and eighteenth centuries is rich
!, booss Of travel on the Continent, the
.,,i.s Of that grand tour" which, be-
.'-ri-- with the period Of the Italian
pspa.ssance. was held TO give the fin
',brr .auch TO an English gentleman
.5,erto-. Evelyn. Walpoie. Hazlitt.
e-o'o... Laurence Sterne, Mary Wort
~. uo-ts.r. Mrs. Pioz-i have left us
,tGr imDrc sions. not TO mention q
Multitude o. mi.or tourists; Locke put
inch store on the cultural value o.
80 custora Ia theory. but questioned
-, prar.fcal results; Pope openly
.-..rsJ s+ i. I'm the "Dunciad" There
A. no doubt that. along with much cult
,re and mental broadening. the grand
,o,- was. ,a many cases, Ike the pro-
rerb.al PEARLS. It spoiled as many
,.o,,- Tr-ishme9 as 10 polished. Con-
,.rn9~a-v fiction bears ample evidence
m This especially 20 the indisn.t.es
,r- mon the tc.1rs by their we.l-born
lbarres. Fog the evidence Of The gen
,ral urf:.css o. these companions for
the.- educational task one must turn TO
more serious writer's. What the grand
,opr could do for a studious traveller
IS best proved by Goethe's Italian visit.
Fo-. be it added, the custom was in
vooue TO a considerable extent among
the upper ella OF the Continent as
well GO out into the world" said
Oxenstierna 20 his son, "and learn with
how little wisdom the nations are gov
eraed"
L is passing strange that a custom
60 long observed and held in such high
esteem in England should have found
70 historian until now. This is, how
ever. the case, according TO Mr.. Mead,
who assures US that his work is the
frs. 10 deal with the subject as a whole,
in all its phases. lie has done his work
thoroughly and systematically, present
ing not only the English tourists views
OF the Continent, but also the CONT
neht s OplulOho Ol tiiS bhSiioh NVNiAoN'
who. II appears, was as insular then as
he was in the nineteenth century. Said
the Earl Of Cork and Orrery: "The Eng
l.sh arc a happy people. if they were
truly conscious. or could in any degree
convince themselves OF their own
felicity. Let them travel abroad:
they will then return home perfectly
convinced that England is possessed O.
more freedom, justice and happiness
than any other nation on earth" An
ether Englishman wrote: THE English
nation, much 10 its credit, differs wide
" from its rival neighbors, and is unit
ed with the wise, the good, the great
Of all ages and countries in q glorious
tontederaey 10 support the dignity and
the grandeur Of our common nature. "
bu., writes DR.. Moore, there are in
stances of Englishmen VINO, while trav-
cling, shock foreigners by an osten-
tatious preference OF England 10 all the
rest Of the world, and ridicule the man
Ders. customs and opinions of every
ether nation; yet, on their return to
their own country, Immediately assume
foreign manners, and continue during
The remainder Of their lives 10 express
the highest contempt for everything
that is English" Horace Walpole asked
in one Of his letters: What must Eu-
rope think Of us from our travellers
and from our own accounts of our