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  TRAVELLING SKETCHES.


  BY


  ANTHONY TROLLOPE.


  [REPRINTED FROM THE "PALL MALL GAZETTE."]




  LONDON:
  CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
  1866.




  CONTENTS.


                                                   PAGE

  THE FAMILY THAT GOES ABROAD BECAUSE IT'S THE
  THING TO DO                                         1

  THE MAN WHO TRAVELS ALONE                          15

  THE UNPROTECTED FEMALE TOURIST                     29

  THE UNITED ENGLISHMEN WHO TRAVEL FOR FUN           43

  THE ART TOURIST                                    57

  THE TOURIST IN SEARCH OF KNOWLEDGE                 71

  THE ALPINE CLUB MAN                                84

  TOURISTS WHO DON'T LIKE THEIR TRAVELS              98




TRAVELLING SKETCHES.




THE FAMILY THAT GOES ABROAD BECAUSE IT'S THE THING TO DO.


That men and women should leave their homes at the end of summer and go
somewhere,--though it be only to Margate,--has become a thing so fixed
that incomes the most limited are made to stretch themselves to fit the
rule, and habits the most domestic allow themselves to be interrupted
and set at naught. That we gain much in health there can be no doubt.
Our ancestors, with their wives and children, could do without their
autumn tour; but our ancestors did not work so hard as we work. And we
gain