THE GRAND TOUR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 5

THE GRAND TOUR.

Englishmen know more of the earth than they ever did. To-day some four million Britishers are looking at the world m the intervals of looking after the trenches. In the eighteenth century young men of good family were sent abroad to complete their education by travel m foreign countries. This was called making. the grand tour. To-day young men of all sorts and conditions are completing their education m a different way. They are scattered all over the terrains of the Seven Seas. They ai - e leaving their footprints m nearly every quarter of the habitable globe. They know all about the manners and customs of France and Belgium. They have viewed the rough configurations of the Balkans. They have adventured at large along the lines of Russia. They have seen death at the Dardanelles. They have been back m the original khome of John Company. They aivj m Egypt where the strange gods sleep. They are smoking fags m Mesopotamia, and have matched "with reverence into Jerusalem. They have been at home m Brit ; sh East Africa, and have made German South -West Africa no homo for Germans j They have made Gallipoli their washpot. "They are bearing witness that there are more things done ; m Italy than the eating of macaroni. Decidedly the young Englishmen of to-day have been and are making the grand tour. Their children will be able to learn geography at first hand. — Daily Express.