Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-10-15
WHOLE NO. 2S9.


|, sbFOOAH uSfttfrS.
European Correspondence otthe Portland
advertiser.
THInGs IN ESoLANp, SCENERY, Sc
June, 1885. Every heart beat quicker
iand louder, as we sailed along the chan
mel with Old England i;seif on one side
and The Isle Of Wight on the other. This
~ England then! With what Joy does
an American visit the hand Of his fathers,
IN whose glory, in whose triumphs ovt
man and matter he shares! Shakespeare
is ours as well as theirs, and so is Milton,
and that by gone host of the mighty
dead, who in aioretimes have consecra-
ted almost every hill and glen that dots
or marks the surface Of old England -
An American more than all other stran-
gers, is just the man TO feel and share in
all ;he pride Of England-and so is an
English man, if he would but shake off
his narrow political prejudices, the very
man To love us and ours, as we are hone
Of their bone and flesh of their fesh.-
a community Of language and literature,
makes us thoroughly understand EACH
other. But what adds more to the charm,
'hd' al <hIIOINuu, "heIcNCI uC ROtS
exchanges the new for the old, and AN
Eng lishman the old for the new. We
step from the forest, the mighty river,
and the terrific cataract, to a scenery so
unlike ours as one can fancy-so sooth-
ing, so quiet, so cultivated, so delicious
,ly beautiful that | would heartily ex.
change all mere enjoyments Of years for
one single day of unutterable delight,
that the eye alone had when first put
foot upon the English shore. did not
believe that l saw nature. 1 fancied
that was in fairy land. 1t was so un-
like, for miles and miles as rode OH an
outer seat of the couch from Portsmouth
to London, the scenery we have, that IL
did not seem to me possible that even na-
ture herself could cover the earth in such
beauty. The lawns were SO verdant;
the parks Of the mobiles and gentry so
beautifully adorned with trees and walks
and bridges; the cottages 50 tsstefully
,inwre eathed with flowers and ivy; all, and
all nature in such holiday attire, that
moving as we did more than ten miles
an hour over a road as perfectly made an
Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington,
or the Nc -Adamized way in front Of tho
old State House, Boston-in a stage
coach with twelve persons outside and
four in, that could not persuade myself
It was aught else than delusion, and
even now enjoy all over again in the
mere narration. The very horses as they
galoped over the well-watered road,
(and here is luxury for a traveller, ard
the roads are kept sprinkled for miles, orr
some lines 60 miles out Of London, from
wells filled with iron pumps by the way
side the very horses so superbly groom
edD as they shook the flowers that fes~
tooned their heads, did indeed in their
light trappings, "share with their master
the pleasure aud the pride" What could
be fresher or more novel than all this to-
an American, and my delight was doub-
'ly increased by the contrast; for when
left New York tardy spring had hard
Iy warmed the earth OF leafed the trees,
and long stretch of the ocean had pre-
pared me for the full enjoyment Of a sum-
mer that burst upon us rs If by magic
| could not have selected a happier time
to enjoy such contrast, for It was, as 1t
were, awakening from the frosts OF rough
and surly winter to the sudden warmth
Of Lapland summer
have said that EngIshmen and A
mericans are the very men to feel in tho
highest degree the peculari,ies Of each
others homes. have in part told you
why, and as | have now seen England
quite thoroughly, Scotland and Irelnad
some, will tell you why. The horror,
the utter detestation have Of much that
{ il done here in manners and matters, no
language can express. or them 1 will
speak anon-and can very well see in
what way we'll bred Englishman must
he shocked every step he takes in the
/ United States. But am now going to-
speak only Of the first impression Of
scenery and dassociatons-the delightful
part Of travelling which it is well only
To think OF, forgetting its Affections as
much as one can. have said that an
American when he visits Epgland ex-
changes New for Old,-but her antique
" has one charm for an American thas
no European can tell. The old is not
only old to us but il is new also, o,-some-
thing fresh and for the first time seen and
felt. We have n new sensation all at
once, n new soul as it were, and ideas
that never before thronged the brain
throng there now. We have not grown
up among il rs the European has, and
lost the novelty of the sight by constant
psze.-but We have come from far-on
nnd, where Calhedrals are the arched
fore SITS Of a thousand years, with an an
tipuhy beyond the stretch Of History
the builder of whose temples has been