28 JANUARY 1955, page 22

The Tourist In History

Thomas Gray writes home to Mrs. Gray. (Letters, Nov., 1739.) The sixth (day) we begun to go up several of these mountains; and as we were passing one, met with an odd accident......

Your First Problem, Then, Is The Gare Du Nord Porter,

repre- sentative of his kind all over ,Europe. You may not need a porter: but Mary undoubtedly will. Remember, then, that porters on the Continent are paid by the piece; and......