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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 much also in general knowledge, though such knowledge is for the
most part superficial, and our mode of acquiring it too often absurd.
But the English world is the better for the practice. "Home-staying
youths have ever homely wits," and we may fairly suppose that our
youths are less homely in this particular after they have been a day
or two in Paris, and a week or two in Switzerland, and up and down the
Rhine, than they would have been had they remained in their London
lodgings through that month of September,--so weary to those who are
still unable to fly away during that most rural of months.

Upon the whole we are proud of our travelling; but yet we must own
that, as a nation of travellers, we have much to learn; and it always
seems that the travelling English family which goes abroad because it's
the thing to do, with no clearly defined object as to the pleasure to
be obtained or the delights to be expected,--with hardly a defined
idea of the place to be visited, has, as a class, more to learn than
any other class of tourists.

In such family arrangements daughters of course predominate. Sons can
travel alone or with their own friends. This arrangement they generally
prefer, and for it they are always able to give substantial reasons,
in which their mammas may, or may not, put implicit confidence.
Daughters can travel alone too occasionally, as I hope to be able to
show by-and-by in a sketch of that much abused but invaluable English
lady, the Unprotected Female Tourist. But such feminine independence
is an exception to the rule, and daughters are generally willing to
submit themselves to that paternal and maternal guidance from which
the adult male tourist so stoutly revolts. Paterfamilias of course is
there, paying the bills, strapping up the cloaks, scolding the waiters,
obeying, but not placidly obeying, the female behests to which he is
subject, and too frequently fretting uncomfortably beneath the burden
of the day, the heat and the dust, the