Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-06-03
Mi. M. ward,s letter. from Abroad.

We have oeeAsl5nalIy copied from the mnny en- oenianns raxsea apoa Inc volume which eusbodiei leften from three continents. 'hy Mr. Ward, o thB State, The press seem generally to have taker it not only as book deeply interesting. but ear nest, fll of promise, of what tte writer can and will to further for the cause Of AmNricdn Litera, iMte. The Aitersry World has tl,e following hand. somc And well msgiled notice of the worki
 !" Th American abroad Is a happy mortal, lse is ssre oF finding something new under the sun just where everything k oldest. He goes Co Europe iusI as people logo the theate, to gel his moneys worth; and, 10 use western phrase, he is bound to have 1t. FIc takes possession Of the Eastern hemisphere with perfect conviction that whatevef the rest of the world may be, that part of Il $ his oyster, which he proceeds 10 open and digest ae- oordng to his peculiar taste. M., the Arkansas correspondent Of the Louisville Journal for in stance, had no sooner got to LiyeTpooi than he was staggered, not go much by " the architectural ele- gance and eoinF0ereisl hustle, as at the gigantic size of the dray horses Their huge heads and Recks, theif massive forms and elephantine limbs could not fail, think, 10 excite the wonder Of any stranger, but they were objects of especial atten ton and delight to plain Arkansas farmer, with an amateurs taste for agriculture. By Ceres! What horses they would be for cotton. press"
 Now, we like this because it is genuine. 1t is young Arkansas stepping ashore on Old England "and making note" of the first point found which was unlike the New World, and so he goes on with both eyes wide open to the Waterloo Ho- tel where he finds that bow of turtle soup costs seventy five cents! [" The idea of charging such a sum for plate of turtle soup in a seaport town when man can get a much better plate in Wal kers, at JIouisylte, fifteen hundred or two thou sand mil s from Il e sea, for dime, and have glass of something thrown in!'' So we say, too; and worse yet, say M., the idea of mans 6eing .lf. .k.a about the size of lulleSi Everything oa. the con tyacted and economical svstem except thesr blis, and they are extensisv enough, Heaven knows Some one says that the lberality with which nan helps another at table is a pretty sure index Of his disposition. If this be really criterion, I should imagine an Englishman's soul to be about the size of an old fashioned cut fowpence"
 M. is bent upon carrying Arkansas along with him wherever he goes, and seeing with bis own eyes. He gets io Dresden, and finds that he can not go the Dresden Madonna, and so he just says so [" l know" lie adds, q that it IS the height of presumption for an Arkansas bear hunter to in- duige in such criticisms npou a. picture which critics, connoiseurS and the whole world of fashion have united in pronouncing diyine;" but "Naturv'' heing his model, and women and flowers his 'fguides," he thinks the Madonna doesn't come up to the standard, so he makes off for Prussia, which, "though not one-ffth the size of Kentucky, is nevertheless kingdom"
 By the time our tourist gets down the Danube into Turkey, Constantinople, Egypt up the Nile, and penetrates into the remotest regions of ua- vel, he finds ample room and verge enough for his sharp sighted observation, and his book be- comes very lively and entertaining one. He goes everywhere, sees everything, and doesn't hes itaie to say what he thinks, generally in a very clever way, and manages to make readable and entertaining book out of random letters evidently meant more particularly for the amusement of the leaders of q daily paper than for tke instruction of the sober second thoughted part of the community.