For men,

TEN thousand times ten thousand subjects seem to rise around me, thick as atoms in the sunbeam, at the name of Europe. I could give you British scenes without end, drawn from the lordly

domains of the peer or the rustic cottage of the peasant; I could dwell on the glorious institutions of Old England, the land of liberty, the stronghold of honour, and the refuge of the fallen; I could talk of France, of Portugal, and of Spain, of Italy, Austria, Prussia, Poland, and Russia by the hour, for these countries are familiar to me, with their power, their wealth, their resources, their laws, their languages, their manners, their customs, and their religion; but to describe them minutely would occupy too much of my time, talker as I am: a passing remark or two, then, must suffice.

Everybody knows, and therefore I need not repeat it, that Europe, though the least quarter of the globe in space, is the greatest in intelligence and power its influence is universal, and its arts and its arms unrivalled. A friend and I once

made a tour together, far and wide, and rapidly

we travelled.

London occupied us some time, for there is no place like it in the world. If it be true that

"The proper study of mankind is man,"

then London is the place where they who study man ought to dwell. Go to Edinburgh if you would study books, but stay in London if you would study mankind. We conversed with peers and painters, statesmen and statuaries, dukes and dealers in old clothes, with men of all grades and trades: we went everywhere and saw everything, from the ball of St. Paul's cathedral, to the Coalhole in the Strand.

The shipping of Liverpool and Bristol; the looms of Manchester and Leeds; the unrivalled manufactories of Birmingham engaged our attention, for we let nothing escape us, from the con

structing of a steam-engine to the making of a

mouse-trap.

We sailed on the Thames, the Medway, the Severn, the Humber, the Mersey, the Avon, the Trent, and the Tweed. We ascended the Peak in Derbyshire, the Endle, the Wolds; and breathed the fresh air of the Wrekin, Malvern, and Mendip; we visited the lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland; we went to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; inspected the arsenals and dock-yards; and our common, Every-day Scrap Book contained enough of general information to fill a folio.

One day we were at Windsor castle, the next at Warwick and Kenilworth. One week we descended the coal-mines of Staffordshire, and another the tin and copper mines of Cornwall.

Wales afforded us much delight; we wandered

among its mountains and left them with regret ;

nor was Scotland forgotten.

"O Caledonia! stern and wild,

Meet nurse for a poetic child!

Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood!

Land of the mountain and the flood !"

Many an hour we mused by thy Yarrow's stream, and breathed thy Ettrick breeze. We held communication with the northern wizard at Abbotsford, and we bent over the resting-place of Burns.

But thoughtless follies laid him low,
And stain'd his name."

"Bonnie Edinburgh" gave us pleasure, and Old Holyrood awakened many associations of bygone days. Many a warm-hearted friend shook