desirable is to be used, but enough for very intelligent views. For Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's and the Houses of Parliament, 11⁄2 days. For the Tower,

day. Crystal Palace, 1 day. Windsor Castle and Park,day. Richmond, Kew, Hampton Court, etc., 1 day. British Museum and Guildhall (with the Temple), 1 day. Through London Parks and streets, with the Royal Palaces (outside views), the HorseGuards, Mansion House, Bank of England, Monuments, &c., 1 to 2 days. Total, 6 to 8 days, the theatres being visited in the intervening nights by those who choose, and a much better general idea of London being thus acquired by an active and intelligent traveler, than many obtain in months of residence.

Take Paris (not in an "Exposition" year). For Versailles and Sevres, with glimpse of St. Cloud and ride through the whole length of the Bois de Boulogne, 1 day. For Pere la Chaise (cemetery), 1⁄2 day. For St. Denis, day. For the great churches, the Pantheon, Notre Dame, St. Roch, the Madeleine, St. Eustache, St. Etienne du Mont, &c., 1 day. For the Tuileries Gardens, Champs Elysees, along the Seine, the bridges, &c. 1 day. For inside the Louvre, with glimpses of that and the other palaces, outside, 1 day. For the Hotel des Invalides, the Champ de Mars, &c.,

day. For the Hotel de Ville, Place de Greve, Palais Royal, Hotel Cluny, etc.-any or all of them1 to 3 days, at will. Total, 6 to 8 days. The Boulevards will necessarily be seen in passing along them on special visits; and so of the great monuments, the Arc d'Etoile, Arc du Carrousel, Colonne de Ven

dome, Colonne de Juillet, &c.; while the theatres and the concert gardens (Mabille, &c.,) naturally fill the evenings.

Such a distribution of time would inevitably appal the slow and steady Englishman; but not so with the vivacious, quick-moving and quick-seeing American; and nothing more than these two extreme instances can be necessary, it is believed, to demonstrate that the "short-trip" plan and division of time are not only practicable but reasonable, however much even the most hurried might prefer to have unlimited time and money at command!

There are, however, certain conditions necessary in practicing the economies of both time and money, of which the figures have been given in the paper just being concluded, and that preceding it. A reasonably thorough understanding of what is intended, is indispensable, if shipwreck is not to be made of all calculations. It is necessary to know to what countries the traveller intends to proceed, and to possess enough of stamina and individuality to prevent continual waiving and altering of plans under the persuasion of old acquaintances met en route, or new acquaintances who seem to possess peculiar claims to give advice. Not that no change of plan or calculation is ever advisable, in the new light thrown upon certain routes by personal familiarity with them, or that nothing can be learned. from travelling-companions, whether old acquaintances or people chance-met; but that for persons who intend to practice either or both the economies before named (time or money), a fair understanding

of the main facts in advance is highly necessary, and yet only of more importance than the power of "sticking to" a plan or arrangement once formed. It is scarcely necessary to add that such an intelligent understanding can only be reached, before going abroad, by reading in advance some of the Guides which travellers are too much in the habit of only purchasing on the very eve of departure or when actually en route-and by conversing at length with some one or more of those well-informed acquaintances who are known to have traversed those routes considered most desirable.

PREPARATIONS FOR GOING OVER.

There may need to be another reminder that the following paper, like some of the others to come after it, is especially intended for those who have never before crossed the Atlantic, and that, consequently, some of the advice tendered in it may seem very "A. B. C-ish" to those who have already taken their degree, however low a one, in the academy of travelling experience. To this the suggestion may properly be added, that even some of those who have taken that degree may find themselves none the worse for reading over these hints, even if they do so to dissent from them. An apology may need to be made, too, for the direct and conversational style adopted in his and some other papers; the aim of the author is, in this regard, to come as near as possible to the words and manner that would be used in a personal conversation, with one of the parties doing much more than half of the talking.

One word as to the mode in which whatever of "wisdom" may be here contained-has been acquired. Or let the words be two, and embody them, after the mode of a late lamented dignitary, in a "little story." Once upon a time, when the Shrewsbury river, in New Jersey, was more of a throughfare for passengersteamboats than it is to-day, a "hard case" of a

river boatman made application to the head of one of the companies for the command of a new boat just launched and about to be put into service. "Why, good heavens!" exclaimed the owner, throwing up eyes and hands in astonishment, "what reason can you possibly give for thinking that I would trust you with a boat? Every one who knows you knows that you have been ashore on every shoal and mud-bank in the river, even when piloting for others." Precisely the reason why I am the man to take command of the new boat!" replied the incorrigible. "I have been ashore, I believe, on every shoal and mud-bank in the river; consequence, I know where they all are, now, and you see I can keep clear of em." The application of which is, that the writer has "been ashore" on most of the "shoals and mud-banks" of rashness, ignorance and comparative poverty, in his experiments at foreign travel, and "knows where they are," now! And if there are some upon which he has not been ashore, he has seen friends stranded on them and laid up the experience for himself and others.

1st. Decide whether you can afford time and money to go at all, taking into consideration the beforeurged opportunities for economy. Also, decide whether, in going, you leave too much of anxiety, personal or pecuniary, for fair enjoyment; for there is an old adage about the absentee who "drags with each remove a lengthening chain," and there are not charms enough, even in the natural scenery and artistic glories of the Old World, to make such a trip "pay" when the heart or the business-powers must