reat
travelling counties are manufacturers, or merchants, or lawyers, by one or
two descents. In Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, or Warwickshire, examine
closely, and you will find it so. As a general rule, a rich pawnbroker
retired will make a better landlord than a poor baronet. But in this country
two generations will make one of the baronet's sons a successful shopkeeper,
and the pawnbroker's a baronet, or even a peer.

"I tell you what, sir," said a talkative stud groom once, in charge of race
horses for Russia, and travelling first class, "I've been in Petersburg, in
Vienna, and in Berlin, and I lived ten years with the Earl of ----. For all
the points of blood our aristocracy will beat any of these foreign princes,
counts, and dukes, either for figure or for going; but it won't do to look
into their pedigree, for the crosses that would ruin a race of horses, are
the making of the breed of English noblemen."

Here our irregular imperfect guidance ceases. Perhaps, although deficient in
minuteness of detail, this pot pourri of gossip, history, description,
anecdote, suggestion, and opinion, may not only amuse the traveller by
railway, but assist him in choosing routes leading to those scenes or those
pursuits in which he feels an interest.

NOTES.

{67} The operation of this personal influence on the individual boys with
whom he was brought into contact, was much assisted by the system which about
this time began to prevail at public schools, of giving each boy a small room
called "a study" of his own, in which he might keep his books, and where he
could enjoy privacy. The writer, who was at a public school both when all
the boys lived in one great school-room in which privacy was impossible and
after the separate studies were introduced, would wish to record his earnest
conviction of the advantage of the present plan of separate studies,--of the
vital influence it has on the formation of character, no less than of habits
of study in the young. He can well remember how every better impression or
graver thought was effaced, often never to return, as the boy came out from
the master's room or from reading a letter from home, and was again immersed
in the crowd and confusion of the one common school-room of such a school as
Winchester. He would here venture to suggest that the plan of separate
sleeping-rooms, like those in the model lodging-houses, would present equal
advantage with that of separate