are scarcely one in an hundred, and on most of the routes specified careful men can save enough from the figures given, to supply themselves with even that "margin," while there is always the option, in the event of unforeseen embarrassment, of shortening the trip contemplated and hoping for "better luck next time."

TIME NECESSARY ON EUROPEAN ROUTES.

A CONSIDERABLE portion of what might have been said in this paper, has found place in the one preceding-as in that the round that may be safely attempted within each of certain given periods, has been incidentally mentioned.

But there is room and even necessity for something more, if this little volume is to be made to fulfil its full purpose. For it is especially designed for Americans; and Americans sometimes need to be reminded of their own characteristics, quite as much as others to be informed of them.

There are two misunderstandings, on this question of Time, both of which need to be corrected. The first is an impression that everything can be done within a limited space, and the other that nothing! Americans generally fall into the first error; those who attempt to guide without understanding them, tumble into the second. Not even the most incarnate American can rival Puck and "put a girdle" (even one of travel) "round the earth in forty minutes ;" and yet he certainly can go farther and faster with a fair appreciation of what he sees and hears, than any other created being.

The Money obstacle, which keeps at home so many of those who desire to travel and who would travel

but for its existence, has already been alluded to. The obstacle of Time is only secondary in importance and scarcely secondary in its effects.

"Oh, there is no use of my going to Europe, with only such a little time at my disposal!" almost pettishly says the prospective possessor of two or three months of leisure. "Think that I am going to cross the Atlantic, without being able to see the whole of it when I do! No-wait!"

He does "wait," and one of two things is the result. Either he defers going, until growing entanglements make it impossible, or he rushes over, at last, under the impression that he must repay himself for waiting by going over the whole continent, with all its islands, in the one visit and at railway speed-the last result being that he "conglomerates" everything, even if he sees it, and brings away a dim doubt whether St. Peter's is not on the top of Jura and the great clock of Strasbourg stowed away somewhere in Westminster Abbey or the Madeleine.

Meanwhile the European, or the man of any other country whatever than America, scoffs and sneers at the idea that he can see anything whatever without staying a month in each particular place, and the American obtains a reputation for "rushing too fast" when he is really behaving very sensibly in that regard. It is for the purpose of getting at the truth and the "golden mean" in this special particular, that the present paper is written for the purpose of inducing less of that fatal "waiting," less of that crowding too many countries together and exhausting energy in seeing things that are really of no conse

quence when others of the kind have been sufficiently seen and studied.

Assuming the fact that the cause of intelligent travel would be materially subserved by people going over oftener, for special routes and without the weak variety of "the grand tour or nothing!"-assuming this, which is a fact appealing to health, intelligence and common-sense, just as does the propriety of spending one day in every week on the sea-shore at enervating midsummer, instead of working every day for the three hot months in order to find time for two weeks there at the end-What are the spaces of time really needed by Americans for certain special objects of travel?

Let us dissect some of the routes already named, as the most intelligible mode of arriving at the time which they really need occupy, to a quick-witted and intelligent traveler.

For the trip of six to seven weeks ($535 gold$640 currency). Time consumed on ship, going and returning, three weeks, leaving three to four weeks ashore. At and about Cork, 1 day. Cork to Lakes of Killarney, and at Lakes, 2 days. Killarney to Dublin and at Dublin, 2 days. Dublin to Liverpool,

day. Liverpool and Chester, 2 days. Liverpool to London,day. London and suburbs, 6 days. London to Paris, with stop at Rouen, 1 day. Paris and suburbs, 5 days. Paris back to London and on to Edinburgh, by York, with lay over of one train there, 2 days. Edinburgh and suburbs, 1 days. Glasgow and going there, 1 days. From Glasgow through Perthshire Highlands to Stirling, 1 day.

but for its existence, has already been alluded to. The obstacle of Time is only secondary in importance and scarcely secondary in its effects.

"Oh, there is no use of my going to Europe, with only such a little time at my disposal!" almost pettishly says the prospective possessor of two or three months of leisure. "Think that I am going to cross the Atlantic, without being able to see the whole of it when I do! No-wait!"

He does "wait," and one of two things is the result. Either he defers going, until growing entanglements make it impossible, or he rushes over, at last, under the impression that he must repay himself for waiting by going over the whole continent, with all its islands, in the one visit and at railway speed-the last result being that he "conglomerates" everything, even if he sees it, and brings away a dim doubt whether St. Peter's is not on the top of Jura and the great clock of Strasbourg stowed away somewhere in Westminster Abbey or the Madeleine.

Meanwhile the European, or the man of any other country whatever than America, scoffs and sneers at the idea that he can see anything whatever without staying a month in each particular place, and the American obtains a reputation for "rushing too fast" when he is really behaving very sensibly in that regard. It is for the purpose of getting at the truth and the "golden mean" in this special particular, that the present paper is written for the purpose of inducing less of that fatal "waiting," less of that crowding too many countries together and exhausting energy in seeing things that are really of no conse