| Authorship Notes |
The introduction of Barclay's 'Universal Traveller' opens with a brief praise of travel as 'the most agreeable ... [and] the most useful business of a man's life'. Following this Barclay comments the traveller should be careful in observing what he sees in foreign lands, free of prejudice inspired by national pride, and civil and sincere. Yet the traveller should also refrain from aping foreign manners as an affectation when they return to England. The section ends 'it is not our present business to give rules for travellers, nor to prescribe to those who have the direction of our young Nobility and Gentry, who go abroad' (p. 1). |
