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88 SOJOURN IN FRANCE AND GERMANY [cnAJ.. VI<br />
folk ; and if that is not done, it would be better to stay<br />
at home. I would say to a young fellow ·of twenty-four:<br />
" If you want new ideas, you must say good-bye to leisured<br />
Englishmen at Cannes or Rome and learn to know people<br />
as unlike them as you can find : the Basques or the Tyrolese<br />
mountain-dwellers or the Normandy folk are to be<br />
recommended. For this purpose, then, work up a language<br />
or two before you start. If you wish to drink in new<br />
scenes of beauty in the Pyrenean valleys or at Cadenabbia<br />
or on the west coast of Ireland. learn first a little<br />
landscape drawing and then a little painting. A little<br />
goes a long way. Your output will not find its way to<br />
the Water-Colour Exhibition, but you will have learnt<br />
how to look : at what 'l and for how long ? You hear<br />
large-minded men acknowledge gratefully how much they<br />
have gained from a foreign trip. But they were men<br />
who before they started were prepared to be keenly<br />
interested in things that matter : in the blue sea at<br />
.Costabelle, in the picture-gallery at Madrid, and no less<br />
by the orchestra at Bayreuth or in the Paradiso of Dante.<br />
They were men who were never bored at home, being<br />
always certain that we have not been created for nothing.<br />
But if you get someone to taka a ticket for you to Mentone<br />
and tell you which hotel gives you the best ainner for<br />
10 francs and whether there is a tram to the golf-links and<br />
a casino nearer than Monte Carlo, you had better stay at<br />
home. Travelling never cures boredom, but often increases<br />
it. If you are seeking pleasure, you will find<br />
boredom ; and a confirmed globe-trotter is simply a weary<br />
_man who cannot sit still."<br />
A frequent mistake is to trayel with colleagues who talk<br />
" shop " the whole way out and back. The one w"Jlo<br />
does the arranging, makes out the route, tackles the<br />
railway-officiais and the llateful system of tips in the hotels,<br />
gains some experience anyhow; but those who commit all<br />
the disagreeables_to him will be the bored ones when they<br />
return, and will not have learnt even a little geography.<br />
A word must be said about the sea. Matthew Arnold
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