text:  They would make an admirable course of instruction for the overseer of a manufactory of a canal or railway company of an hospital or an infirmary who was to visit foreign countries in order to pick up the latest improvements in practical mechanics chemistry or medicine; but have we really become a race of shopkeepers or doctors and is Science sunk to be the mere handmaid of Art? We despair therefore as long as the present system of education prevails in England (and Scotland of course follows in the wake of its great neighbour ) of seeing any traveller arise of lasting celebrity or book of travels written which shall attain to durable fame