The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-11-07

| 'SA WIN Vo6ruS OF all a..
and shapes scowl at the English aud 1.
volve their intellects in the fasc, 81, =
game Of dorninoes-aFor them ann $
many Others Paris j. delightful. ! y.
nothing against It. But for my own -. !,
would rather live II a garret in 1ana' nal I
than IN = palace ID TIE Chausee d,A..,' y
cAocxn 4 son nsdsrais govt l don't IL. =
shops that contain nothing except ~h...
at the window. l don't like the ~.
jardiHs which grow no plants save 1 ca,
in plaster, | don't like the language. M Il
its strong phrases abontnothing and II.
ting like pendulum between raptur :. /
desolation. l don't like the accent vhi.s
one cannot get without speaking ~,
ones Rose: 1 don't. like the eternal as.
and iabber about books without n,,,.
and revolutions without fruit. I bsys =.
sympathy with tales that turn on !. a..
jackass; nor with constitutions that J; @.
the ballot to the representatives aud MA 81
hold the Suffrage from the people. Meth,
have much faith in that enthusiasm 3;
the beaar arts which shows its produc. !.
execrable music, detestable pictures .uJI
inable sculpture and q droll somsthi,, 5
that believe the French call poesrv,
Dancing and cooking. these are tiis ~ vs.,
the French keel in, grant, ana s1cslisns
things they are. Bat oh Eng aud. s..
Germany Sou need not be jealous Of Won,
rival" So wrote the novelist some ysan
ago, and in the vein Of his criticism, II S s
ltrikingly true, though In some Of Bic Z. /
flectiuns I must differ with him. Il. !
French are too good patured to tropbls
anybody with scowling. It is the Enelist
themselves who are most smenable 70 tbafe
charge. In every public place the conspie
nous individuals are the reserved, the eos, !
the scowling, staring English.
male and female. They elbow themssly,s
everywhere and make themselves a. Dis ],
yreeable as possible. A few days ago, 4
he Hotel dss Invaldes, there was strolline
Ibout . company Of these egotisfical
ISLANDERS, aud among them . lady Who
pretended apparently to right to be con-
idered something Of q conaoisseuy PasG
ng near the dooref the passage (whsn
happened TO -bs 9 young gentleman from
he .s'States) which leads into the crypt
containing the bones Of the great immol.
al, she attempted to read and translate
he inscription over the door. The words,
AIKEN from Napoleon.s will, are as follows:
10 dssirs que mss cendrss repossss sur Il
ords De Ia Seine, Az miliere de % pespls,
'rancais que Jas tast aims" After fear.
II butchery Of the French, the learned
anne essayed to render into her own yer.
acnlar the difficult passage. Her transla.
ion thus began, II desire that my ciadsr,
&C., and proceeded in the same strain-all
{ which the American witnessed with thai
lost scholarly disgust. Light Of heart
ill I be, when the time comes for ma ID
ave this place, when shall be refreshed i
18th the sight Of something nnmixed with
renchisms, with gazing upon pretty wos
len, whom | may safely believe to be vir.
'oas. with hearing other offerings to Eu.
'rpe than HAT produced by hateful
and OF . hundred instruments which
AXE more noise than music, and when /
IN hear some other tones, voices, cry Of
ugh, than those which greet my tortured
which seem to breathe nousht,
y nought but "vise Ia basatelle."
Pardon me for boring you so extensively.
had no idea Of writing 50 much a fsx
inutes since. Before closing will state
at l have abandoned all idea OF studying
Heidelberg, but will. as soon a. my
'owledge of the German language wal.
uts. enter the University at Berlin. Tho
rmer Institution, they say. Is declining. 81