New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Hale. lasno. PIP. 2ai. Walker Wise 4 Co.
In the preface to this little volume, Mr.. Hale'
fa'ner gratuitousy intimates his disgust with the
whoe tribe of writers of books oftravels, and in
TONE OF too imploring earnestness endeavors to.
o'sSuaoe the public from paying any attention
"na'e'er 10 Its contents. The quizzical vein,.
however, was by no means called for BY the.
occasion, bis book being quite free from sny airs
oil authorship, and containing merely brief and.
simple record of his experience while rnoidl,
traversiDg an interesting field of European traye)
He gives a lively description Of his srst i'm
pressions of England.
think it is Dr. Bellows who says In an article or
travel in the North American" that the first tweI
ty-four hours has snack tang in It, which nobnc,
sfterward compares with. This il perfectly tyle; and
this is to be added-wbich indeed, perhaps ne add
flor quote at secondhand that this rst impression
is blush on the grape, bloom on the peach which
is very difficult to recover even In memory. NV frs
sight Of an English hamlet in Stafordshrs its drop
squeezing together of half dozen brick houses as eos
if they were in North street in Boston, while all
around there plenty of room; my first sight Of ivy
growing perfectly free and wild; my frst sight Of
boytrees as large as apple-rees; my first sight Of
lark in the ky; my first sight Of heather in bloom my
first hedger and ditcher;" my first sight OF the brick
walls of garden In the country; my first sight Of the
interior Of an English church; my first crusader-yhg
instone.onhis- Observation-Disclosures my first every
thing in short-excited me, electrified me, brought
the tears TO my eyes, very likely, In a way which
two or three months after, found it impossible
TO make real think 1t oil comes back 10 me more,
as l write these words in the wholly different
world Of the New-Hsmpshre mountains, than it did
after few weeks of familiarity with England. After
the first plunge one ia toned TO the new dimen
sons. st. Georges Hall, In Liverpool, seemed large
TO me- and the parish church Of St. Mays in Stafford
the first church entered in England; Sc. Paus, in
London, my first cathedral; and the Antwerp Ca
thedral few days after. But in an instant almost
one adapts himself to the SCALE He feek at home in
the grandest of these buidiugs and even in the ca
thedrals, for instance feels that they none too
grand. lie begins at once to compare them, not with
his own church at home but with each other. And
3d. Dr. Bellows says, it is only the fret of class Of
impressions which does for us what fancy travel
ing will do all the time. As as we gel our frst
charge of European electricity the conductor gives
us no bigger sparks than it eves to other people.
Liverpool profits in my memories by this principle.
I wonder that people hurry through il Il wonder that
It ever gets d-rerr spoken Of il there
no. hing 10 suppose there are not many honsj
but there are-what are a. good as Eens-shrimps,
Spanish grapes. beggars play ing at coach red
coated pOsboys policemen with shiny hats, and, in
short, all that world IF details which are all new a.
one lands, a. If they were ions-newer, indeed, be-
cause they are shown in menageres and which,
after week in England, one sees no more than The
native does because he has seen them all tie week
and foi gets TO notice them.
Punch represents the very-day side of life faith
fully, that constantly cries at fret, show like
Punch :" ~ he a cab OF pattern he never saw
before, beggar in rig unknown TO him outside OF
Pinch, or a crOssng-sweeper holding his hand Tor o
penny. | remember also, that, az soon as we went
into the country, we were constantly saying, how
like the theaerw For at home we had never eeen
high brick walls and gardeneates in the midst OF the
country except as they were necessary for The ma
chinery of AN English play; nor little wayside inns
not big enough for body sleep in, yon would say
with sign stuck from the house. indicating that
the Royal oak was remembered there. SO nneh IN
deed Of the drama takes English dress that do not
think rid Of this association with the play TILL
WAS again enjoying family life. The interiors IN
England M l them, bone-life in what they call
the middle class, in the educated classes seemed TO
me precely like our life at home, except In few OF
the most trivial details.
In London the Yankee traveller finds himself
so completely at home, that he at once begins to
philosophize Boston fashion, on the cause Of his
sat sfac.On.
As to the home feeling Of London, may add
ord, porbaPs, 10 ha, thus wrote at the time. L
think oil New-E nglanders, certainly all Bos,oDeers
~ with me In the feeling. remember that ). L.
wrote fron Paris, that be had felt at home
in London after hour than he did in Paris after
sixteen months of her splen did literary, scientific and
aesthetic hosl itates. And do not wonder. Partly,
think, the charm is in the language. The London
sbopman many provineisls in his days duty,
that his language assima;es dialects from all and has
much less of what iondly call English accent
than any other The rule works both ways; and he is
quite indifferent whether You have TO him from
Australia, or Calcutta, or Hong Kong, or Boothia
Felix, or Boston His manner, therefore, makes you
feel at homei while, in Liverpool everybody knew
You were from the other side, and addressed yon
accordingly. Then, in architectural arrangements,
Boston IT, not little London, but little bit OF Lon
dom ALWAYS walked when | had time, and with
little other guide than hlte compass on my watch
guard. SO have stumbled into streets in London,
which could lot have distinguished from back streets
az the North End in Boston. went into II. Anne's
Church. ia Solo, 10 hear Trench night, and found
church evidently built by the halt-c)usin n-law on
the mother side To the architect who designed Brat
tie Street, 81. Johns Church in Broadway II NOT,
indeed, by the same maR You go into st. PauPs TO
see nscfptil all around you, which remind you d.
rectly of home; and III most Of them, think, the
American takes more interest than the Londoner The
trst monument the right, as you g. into ST. PANTS
on the south ide is group of two officers with their
arms around each others waists. They are Gibbs
ana Pakenham," who gOriously fell Ia an attemIt
TO storm the eRemyS wOrkS at NewOrleans.' To an
Englishman this i nothing; he does not read the in
scription. New-OrleaDs Is no more to him than the
Isle of Rhe or the Bay of Islands On the other hand
the monuments there that do interest him. interest US
quite rs much. To See DIR. johnson naked, with
cloth around lis lins, commemorated to a Christian
nation 10 one who had done great things poaderi5n'
per6oyurR IL in the eight of bis words" good ac
count, tn, to give at any day of jadgmeni Is sPec
tace as grand to tie Yankee s to the Coeknee haa
the curiosity TO count Fleet street, one day Ire
number If siens witch had any direct reference :"
America-wbich would evidently have been impossible
but for Christopher Columbus They were about ohe
in twelve IN that particular region. Nor wsre tbsy
specially gratifying ashetic or literary PRIDE
think one WAS poster announcing that soue Sa'ur-
day paper had stolen one Of The Mr-fork LedgrTs
stories, of coar-e, without Acknowledgements Inc
rest we're :. Virginia tobacco An.ericah over
sIoes. American ice," and such Ike. One ~as
:. % bella Salvage !" whose name has staid there,
r. III aud SaNnYa since Hha MlLIt