ENGLISH TRAVELLERS OF THE RENAISSANCE
By Clare Howard. With 12 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. net.
∵ A good sub-title to this book would be "The Grand Tour in the 16th and 17th centuries." We have a series of most interesting extracts from, and comments on, the innumerable little volumes of directions for foreign travellers issued during the 16th and 17th centuries for the guidance of English youths about to venture on the Continent. Miss Howard shows the various purposes which travellers had in their minds in setting out on their journeys in successive generations, how at one time it was mainly in the pursuit of learning, at another the acquirement of the more courtly arts, at another a kind of glorified athleticism, and latest of all a sort of dilettantism. Thus "English Travellers of the Renaissance" is without doubt a pleasing novelty among books.