As very rare survivals of the past (for who cares to keep as I have done his schoolboy journals of half a century ago ?) I will give at haphazard from each in its order of time a short quotation by way of sample,--a brick to represent the house.

My first, A.D.1828, records how my good father took his sons through the factories of Birmingham and the potteries of Staffordshire, down an iron mine and a salt mine, &c.

&c., thus teaching us all we could learn energetically and intelligently; it details also how we were hospitably entertained for a week in each place by the magnate hosts of Holkar Hall and Inveraray Castle; and how we did all touristic devoirs by lake, mountain, ruin, and palace: in fact, a short volume in MS., whereof quite at random here is a specimen page.

"Melrose looks at a distance very little ruinous, but more like a perfect cathedral.

While the horses were being changed we walked to see this Abbey, a splendid ruin, with two very light and beautiful oriel windows to the east and south, besides many smaller ones; the architecture being florid Gothic.