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the growing extent of modern travel: the least observant traveller 
must have his crude ideas of other nations somewhat modified, 
and get a more truthful apprehension of the people among whom 
he moves. He must grow more cosmopolitan and help on the 
development of universal brotherhood. All he sees may not 
always be pleasant, but everything must tend to mental expan- 
sion, a broader knowledge of the world and more cordial relations. 
Fifty years ago, only the nobles travelled—to make the acquaint- 
ance of their peers, who were the governing few: now-a-days we 
travel, that we may the better know our peers who are the ruling 
many. 
The next question is where should we travel? Better any 
where than not at all. The object of travel is, or should 
be, profit. Travel without a purpose is unprofitable, may be 
contemptible. Many are so constituted that they have no desire 
for travel, have so little of the vagrant tendency, that the order 
of their social life is sufficiently varied by a visit to friends or a 
trip to our own coasts. Others again are content to revel among 
the landscape beauties, and the geographical features and pro- 
ductions of their own country, and find these sufficient for the 
gratification of their travelling tendencies. The rapid multipli- 
cation of our watering places, both coast and inland, the crowding 
of these places during our short season of summer, the increasing 
facilities for travel and temporary residence, all tell the same 
tale—that with the growth of wealth and intelligence, people 
increasingly gratify their desire for travel. So letit be. There 
are beauties in our own country with which no travelled English- 
man should be unacquainted. The gratification of our taste for 
‘the picturesque will find as ample means in the glades and 
pastoral scenes—the mountain fastnesses, the river valleys and 
gorges, the sections and slopes of our coasts, and the homes and 
architectural beauties of our own country—as anywhere in the 
world. But there are others of us who, having seen more or less 
of our own country, have the vagrant feeling so strong that we 
must outstep its boundaries—must see and know something of 
the great world beyond. Necessarily this broader travel demands 
a somewhat better equipment. Where such shall go depends 
upon idiosyncrasies. Towns and lower levels will best suit 
some to whom buildings, picture galleries, and museums offer a 
‘gratifying change and a profitable employment of time. Others 
will prefer to lounge about tourist hotels, join in the tattle of 
their saloons and courts, and move from place to place with little 
toil and less profit. Of such I fear many know too little to 
learn much, and among them we find our least desirable 
travellers. There are others again whose love of nature is strong 
‘and who have more or less gratified this love by a study of her 
-maryellous works, to whom the mountain and stream, the ocean 
