28 APRIL 1923, Page 11

But to return to American railroad advertising, not even the

most hardened globe-trotter could resist such appeals as the following, which I take at random from a bundle of American Press advertisements on my desk. Here are three samples. The first is from an announce- ment of a round-the-world cruise of the Canadian Pacific Railway :- " Now for the first time you can make the Grand Tour on the magnificent Empress of Canada ' under Canadian Pacific manage- ment all the way. . . . What golden experiences, what priceless memories these four months will give you ! . . . Romance in excel:is. The last stone in the arch of culture. The greatest of all vacations."