THE untravelled Yankec, and often the travelled one, is apt to have a notion that the whole arrangement and conduct of passenger business on English railroads is inferior to what it is in the United States, and the Briton disapproves at first of pretty nearly every effort that we make to serve his comfort or convenience as he journeys over our land. It is not my purpose to try to settle this old difference; I would not, if I could, for the English-speaking world would lose a precious subject of debate. But both systems are interesting to the casual traveller and to the student of the mechanics or the economics of carrying.

The English road is the most