For Austria we have several delightful fellow-travellers. Amelia B. Edwards, in _Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys_, deals with the Dolomite region; a more recent book is Robertson’s _Through the Dolomites_; and there are two books by W. A. Grohman on _Tyrol and the Tyrolese_, and _Gaddings with a Primitive People_. Victor Tissot’s _Unknown Hungary_ has been translated from the French, and the little-known _Dalmatia_ has been dealt with by Mr. T. G. Jackson. C. W. Wood has written _In the Black Forest_. There are several modern books on Bismarck and his master, the Emperor William I., and also on Imperial Germany, and you should choose the most recent of these. There is an illustrated book, by K. Stieler, called the _Rhine from its Source to the Sea_, which has been translated and is very interesting. As a general thing, the guide-books are so many and so various, dealing with health, baths and spas, and the various artists, musicians, battle-fields, and seats of learning, that unless you were looking up any special subject, they will give all the information you require for travelling in the Fatherland. In the way of extended literature, you may read, if you like, Helen Zimmern’s _Half-hours with Foreign Novelists_, and in the way of distant travels there is, to me, the ever-fascinating Ida Pfeiffer, that wonderful German woman, whose wanderings were worldwide, and the contents of whose purse was microscopic at all times. Mrs. Bird, Miss Gordon Cumming, Lady Brassey, Miss Kingsley, and that delightful Miss Gates, who is quite the equal of Madame Pfeiffer in her fearless and adventurous spirit, are all worth reading. James Gilmore, as a writer and traveller, is so delightful that one feels the deepest regret at his early death. Mr. and Mrs. Pennell are always excellent companions, whether they travel to the Hebrides or take a _Sentimental Journey through France_; or one nearer home, _On the Stream of Pleasure; The Thames from Oxford to London_, or _Play in Provence_. They are the pioneers in cycling, for the tourist, and have steadily ridden from the days of the tricycle, till it has been eclipsed by a more rapid machine. A QUIVER OF QUOTATIONS. “Let a girl grow as a tree grows.”—_Mrs. Willard._ “She gave me eyes, she gave me ears.”—_Wordsworth._ “Education is but another term for preparation for eternity.”—_Sewell._ “By dint of frequently asserting that a man is a fool, we make him so.”—_Pascal._ “To assert a child is indifferent to its parents is not the way to make it affectionate.”—_Guyau._ “Our children should be brought up, from the first, with this magnet, ‘Ye are not your own.’”—_Mason._ “All education should be directed to this end, viz., to convince a child that he is capable of good and incapable of evil.” “The art of managing the young consists, before everything else, in assuming them to be as good as they wish to be.”—_Guyau._