Their kindness and warmth to strangers are particularly pleasant, and are much appreciated by their visitors.

In some other countries, the people, though not unsociable, surround themselves with so much reserve that strangers are at first chilled and repulsed, although there are no pleasanter or more hospitable persons anywhere to be found when once you have broken the ice, and learned to know them; but it is the stranger who must make the first advances, for they themselves will make no effort to become acquainted, and their manner is such as to discourage any efforts on the part of the visitor.

You may travel with them for hours in the same car, sit opposite to them, and all the while they will shelter themselves behind a newspaper, the broad sheets of which effectively prohibit any attempts at closer acquaintance.

The following instance, culled from a personal experience, is an illustration.

I was a law student at Lincoln's Inn, London, where there is a splendid law library for the use of the students and members of the Inn.