Two Years in Europe. By Professor Rodney Glisan, M.D. (G.
P. Putna,m's Sons.)—Professor Glisan is a physician of eminence in the United States, and he visited England, France, Germany, Austria, and Italy some five years ago. It is always interesting, if not always precisely agreeable, to read the observations which an intelligent visitor makes upon our manners and customs. In Professor Glisan's case, we are pleased as well as interested. Ho pays us the compliment of speaking of London as the metropolis of the world, and generally he expresses himself as pleased with what he saw. We believe that he is quite right when he says that "intelligent and well-behaved Americans will always find as kind treatment in Great Britain as among the same class of people in their own country." Probably they are not treated with the same empressement ; on the other hand, they do not find us so sensitive. You may tread on an Englishman's corns pretty hard before he cries out. Of course, the writer sometimes goes a little astray. One opens one's eyes, for instance, when he tells us that the "living expenses of an economical student need not exceed 2250 annually." As Professor Glisan has already mentioned the cost of tuition fees, the exaggeration is really formidable.
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