The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-17
LkuLIsH hO1Es OR AMERICA.


"swiss Men and SWISS Mountains" has written
book about his recent travels in the United
States, which is published in London by Long.
mans, Green Co. Mr.. Ferguson makes fewer
blunders than English travellers usually fall
into, and is evidently hearty admirer OF some
OF the public men of this country He makes
tun of certain national peculiarities, which are
rs sharply criticized by cultivated Americans
themselves as by foreigners but in the m ain his
BOOK is not only pleasant but accurate.
Whlle in Boston he seems 10 have had the op.
pOrtunity of seeing the best literary society. and
he gives the following sketches:-
LOngfeIlOw.
/ found him in his study, an elegant and
cheerful room, in one corner of which a fine
orange tree, with Its golden fruit, keeps green
the memory of a departed friend the late Pro-
lessor FELTON,. The table is strewn with books
and presentation copies in various languages-
ay, even in Chinese. But the ways OF the Chi
nese are not as our ways, and this presentation
copy was In the shape of fan, on which poet
OF the Flowery Land had written translation
of the psalm OF Lie;" and if the translation
were orly as good as the writing, assuredly the
work was well DONE Though the features of
the poet have been made familiar to us by many
pictures and photographs, yet no one can see
him Tor the first time without being struck with
his appearance His expression of mingled dig
nity and eentleness has been fairly presented to
us; but the peculiar sweetness of his smile
DeautV
often plays upon his features cannot be rem
dered IN likeness. Before him lies the ever
open Dante, his translation of which a labor of
love, which has occupied him for years, now
approaches to completion. But Dante has not
his UNDIVIDED regard, and hardly would the
picture OF LJngfellow in his study be complete
without ever and anon, through one OF the |
three doors lett unguardedD . little figure |
stealing gently in laying an arm around his |
neck as he bends over his work, and softly |
whispering some childish secret in his ear |
vyo inf ,toll l.
OF another Sort for among travellers of all |
nations the tour in America would hardly he |
considered complete without visit to CTagie |
House. And speaking fiuently French German |
Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, and having
also knowledge of Danish and OF Dutch, It
may well be supposed that there seldom comes
traveller with whom the poet cannot, if need |
De, hold converse In his own tongue
Stories about Queer Visitors.
And sometimes there come other visitors too
selllntroduced-a class to WHOM the customs of |
America show more tolerance than thev do with
u.s. remember, during the period OF nv stay.
Western man, comically quaint and cool, who
came with request 10 see the pictures at Crapie
House. On two successive days he came. and
tor three or four good hours was Dante thrown
ASIDE Whlle, with an amused good-humor tha
poet answered all his odd questions and snowa6
him everything there was to be seen. Then
ihere came very many others craving assistance
Ia sckness or sorrow, and 10 these deaf ear is
never turned. no mans income can be a secret |
IN America; The income tax returns are omen to |
public inspection; and the newspapers an1uSe
Ihelr readers by classified lists OF the incomes of
prominent merchants literary men, poIiticians
ana others: Mr.. Longfeliow is endow wed with |
an income far exceeding that which is generaiiV
SUPPOSED % 10 lall to the lot of poets; and as he |
never refuses to listen to any tale OF distrese
the number of applicants, worthy and mn,
worthy, who find their way to his gate is bv
NO a means small. The airs which some of the
american Deggars give themselves are verv |
amusing l remember the case of q MN a,hSS |
1S,'e 1, WIN MS arm In sling representing him.
SCI. s 70 nave peen wounded in the service of his
D;con G;y os,nd Mf' ,LongfelIow, having some sus ;
PicIon, asked TO be allowed to look at The J
t Mounoeu arm. 1t is not pleasant sight RI
SNOW = gentleman" said the man, "perbanS
pleasant tbngs ing C"SST We iGme%es s sd39 to Look az u
drawing himself up, IF that is the % Taht riSn,
Hnich wa! you look at the matter, would ratbar '
Riah GI We Deneloen TO you Tor assistance, and So
another man upon whom in resnonSo was n
oals VI hunger and distress there was besto wad
! EnsIi' msIHiIs1ne H ioaf. Now, the least that anV
cumstancess ses[ %9uld have done under the CIR
tne ioat and converted it into Gin Rut This :
hmUuG hrOurG nave been beneath the gpirit NJ o., II
I ~ oeggar, and so he resented tba insIt
nassa5 ors ssuiiIy NY oy deposting the loaf as he
gate post, on 'ne Top OF the Il
The War.
, At Cragie House found the poets eldest son I
.called called by men Charlie" as Mr.. Hughes saws - s
l
rom wound-having been shot through the !
Oooy, from which nothing but youth and a good ]
constitution g MS could have saved him. Havir@
nst9a ar,;Ia IN tne hrst instance as priv" en-
10 10 .mtees@..enant's commS" out, appointed |
Massachusetts, cave -zsien IN regiment of |
ment which :.,ry. He confirmed the state
ave- had heard else where as to the
-.sIon of the Confederate cavalry to a charge
OF cold steel, their favorite way of lighting
being with the pistol-a habit perhaps. ac9 !
qulred before they had any Federal cavalry to |
cope cope WITH. wit There are few of the distinguished
men OF the North who have not lost sons or |
near relatives fighting for the Union; the record |
Is given by MIR. Hughes in the January number
OF Frdzer's Magazine and noble roll it is. And
we we may well beieye that these men, thus Civ j
ing up all they held most dear in the cause | :
should feel bitterly the cruel and unjust taunt
pun torth IN some OF the English papers of that |
time that they were carrying on a miserabIe | !
Conillct by the aid of hired aliens. how in any
One case MISERABLE" The term implies either | {
~ lnadequate cause or an unworthy foe The |
Chinese war, With Armstrcc,",, ainst bows
and arrows, might be called a miserable wor ;
PERHAPS par P even the war 10 New Zealand' But a +
yieu, ~ ivoked at in the lowest pont a. ~ =
a ., was carried on to preserve the integTitv of :
= ~ sdeat nation, whether we sympathized yith | !
snc6 I6OeCo C OF not had no right to be called by
Summer. ii
A frequent visitor at Cragle House, when Con-
gress is not sitting, is Charles Sumner, the scho.
larly Senator for Massachusetts, and the repre- |
sentative man of New England politics. And an |
interesting sight it was to see these two men, |
Longfellow and Sumner, go kindred and yet so |
different, sitting together on the eve OF the great
contest which was to decide the place of America
in the worlds history-Sumner with the poets |
little daughter nesting in his lap, for he is
man to whom all children come calmly discuss.
ing some question of European literature Mr.
Sumner seemed 70 feel deenlv the dafocfinn of |