CHAPTER XIX.

Thackeray as a Traveller -- Journey in Youth from India to England -- Little Travels at Home -- Sojourn in Germany -- French Trips -- Residence in Paris -- Studies in Rome -- Sketches and Scribblings in Guide-Books -- Little Tours and Wayside Studies -- Brussels -- Ghent and the Béguines -- Bruges -- _Croquis_ in Murray's 'Handbooks to the Continent' -- Up the Rhine -- 'From Cornhill to Grand Cairo' -- Journeys to America -- Switzerland -- 'A Leaf out of a Sketch-Book' -- The Grisons -- Verona -- 'Roundabout Journeys' -- Belgium and Holland 465