Washington telegraph., 1851-06-04

Mn. WARD's BooK.-Among the many handsome
and highly complimentary notices which have ap-
peared upon Mr.. Wards (M of Arkansas.) book,
"Letters from Thee Continents We find an off
hand dashing article in late number of the
Literary World journal of high distinction in
New York. 1t is SO true, and so we'll deserved
withal, that we make room for it. After giving
the title of the book, the writer in the Gazette
commences:
The American abroad is a happy mortal: he is
sure of finding something new under the sun Just
where everything is Oldest He goes to Europe just
as people 90 to the theatre, to get his moneys
worth; end, to use a Western phrase, he is bound
to have it. He takes possession of The Eastern
hemisphere with perfect convictien that whatever
the rest of the world may be, that part of ii is has
oyster, which he proceeds TO open and digest ac-
cording to his peculiar taste. NJ, the Arkansas
correspondent of the Louisville Journal for in
stance, had no sooner got to Liverpool than he
staggered, not so much by ''the architectural ele-
gance and commercial hustle, at the gigantic
size of the dray horses. Their huge heads and
necks, their massive forms and elephantine limbs
could not fail, think, to excite the wonder Of any
stranger, but they were objects of especial atten-
ton and delight 10 plain Arkansas farmer, with
an amateurs taste Tor agriculture. BY Ceres.
What horses they would be for cotton press"
Now, like this because it is genuine. 1t is
young Arkansas stepping ashore on Old Engla nd
and ''making note" of the first point found which
unlike the New World, and so he goes on with
both eyes wide open to the Waterloo Hotel, where
he finds that bowl of turtle soup costs seventy
five cents! ''rhe idea Of charging such sum for
plate of turtle soup in seaport town when man
can get much better plate in Walkers al Louis
vile fifteen hundred or two thousand miles from the
sea, for dime, aud have glass of something
thrown in.' So we say, too; and worse yet, says
NJ, "the idea of mans being allowanced to one
bullets! Everything on the contracted and eco
nomcal system except their bills. and they ex-
tensIve enough, Heaven knows. Some one says
that the liberaity with which man helps another
at table is pretty sure index of his disposition.
II this be really criterion, should imagine all
Englishman's soul to be about the size of an old
fashioned cut tOurpence."
NJ. is bent upon carrying Arkansas along with
him wherever he goes and seeing with his
eyes. He gets 10 Dresden, and finos that he can
not go the Dresden Madonna, and so he just says
Il know he adds, "tnat it is the height of
presumption for Ark kansas bear hunter to indulge
in such criticisms upon picture which critics. con.
noi s-urs and the whole world of fashion have unit
ed in pronouncing divine;" but "N ature being his
model, and wome. and flowers his "guides," he
thinks the Madonna doesn't come up to the stand.
ard, SC he makes off for Prussia which, Though
not one fifth the size Of Kentucky, is nevertheless
kingdom"
By the time tourist gets down the Danube
into Turkey, Constantinople, Egypt, up the Nile,
and penelrates into The remoest regions of travel,
he finds ample aud verge enough for his sharp
sighted observations, and his book becomes Il very
lively and entertaining one. He goes everywhere,
sees everything, and doesn't hesitate to say what
he thinks, generally in a very clever way, and
manages 10 make readabls and entertaining book
out oil random letters evidently meant more par
ticnlarly for the amusement Of the readers OF
daily paper than fur the instruction of the sober
second though,ed part of the community.