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The purpose for which it is written is to supply the reader with that which is not to be found in guide-books ; the purpose being to prepare the mind of the traveller to appreciate what the guide-books point out to him as worth seeing. A French writer, M. Alphonse Allais, says: "What characterises the English tourist more than anything is the air of profound ennui which never leaves him from his arrival at Calais or Dieppe to the moment of his return to his native land.
France visibly bores the Englishman ; he is interested in nothing, listens with a distrait air to the explanations of the guide, takes a vague look at the monument or work of art pointed out to him, and never seems to arrive at any place save in order to go on immediately to another.
