But in our days all this is changed, no grand tour is worthy of the name that does not include a' visit to the antipodes and a general circumnavigation of the earth, and people start on such a trip with less excitement and fewer preparations than those with which their grandparents undertook a journey from London to Edinburgh, or even from the more secluded country villages to any of the great commercial centres. Hence it comes to pass that we have all been and seen and done so much that a story-teller must take his characters into Central Africa if he wiahes for an un hackneyed field on which to display his knowledge of men and manners, and as even that might be dangerous since Mr Stanley's recent revelations, we will con tent ourselves with the statement that the two Passmores did New York in the most approved manner ; walked up and down Broadway, inspected the public buildings, gazed with mingled awe and admiration at the ladies' dresses, and at New York society generally, and then passed on to other and more distant scenes. The dream of her girlhood was accom plished for Eva whea she stood at the brink of the tiorseshoe Falls, and saw that magnificent cascade which had long haunted her fancy, and she was so fascinated by it that she would willingly have lingered for weeks by its side. Then came the great Pacific Railway, and the mighty expanse of rolling prairie ex tensive as European countries, featureless aa a petrified ocean, commanded her ad miration by its very immensity. A still greater charm was found in the grand picturesqueness of the Yosemite Valley, its sparkling waterfalls, and giant trees. At these natural beauties she gazed entranced, forgetting herself and her own troubles in their contemplation, and as she bounded from point to point in child like excitement all her girlish beauty re turned, and John felfc that he was well repaid for all the trouble and expense of the trip, which was proving more suc cessful than he had dared to hope. At San Francisco they had intended to take the mail boat to Melbourne, but Eva declared that she had had enough of big steamers, that she wanted a change, and would much rather go by a sailing vessel. 