THE WORTH OF TRAVEL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1953, 9 January 1914, Page 3

THE WORTH OF TRAVEL.

■ *- -• \ F.G. Aflalo, who has knocked about the world moro than most people, » rather inclined to doubt (in tlie "Fort- ■ nightly") whether travel is worth while ! He admits the call of the "healing wili' demess and cleansing sea," but he , thinks that the charm of travel is verj much an illusion of thoso who stay al home. There is a good deal to he sale for tho vegetable, .life- Youth has iti nassions, hut neither youth nor passior ' lasts, and when ono tries to replace } them by restlessness, tho result is sure ' to bo disaster. Ilowel, in the "17tl ! Century," however, said all that Mr - Aflalo has to tell us, and a good elea " more in his once famous "Arts of For b cign Travel," and the discussion whe " tber it is worth while to go out of siglr " of tho parish pump is likely to be in ' terminable. It is, of course,_ all a ques I tion of temperament. The joys of Lit ' tie Pedlington will last a liietimo fo r one—and that is only a geographical ex * prossion for a feeling commo-n enougl 9 even in now countries of which mobil II ity ought to be an outstanding char 3 acteristic. There are thousands of Aus tralians well up in life who have neve " seen the sea, and not a few who hav> ' never seen a town—or even a busl ' township. But, perhaps, they' are in worse off for that. And the travelle docs not always learn. "Coryat's Cru . dities'Hastily Gobbled Up" arc n.fai enough sample of the intake of in average wayfarer. ■■?'■.