New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-12
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
BELLOWgs OLD WORLD.

The second installment Of Dr. Bellowss agreeable
record of personal tour in Europe during the years
~ and 6S is devoted to which familiar TO
Abe crowd of American tourists, and which have fire.
suently been described by popular writers. We
must accordingly not expect any rare aceessions to
eur store of knowledge, nor count upon any novel
specimens of picturesque effect from the present vol
sme but seek in il the impressions OF an intelligent
traveller, who brings large pTactIeai experience SUI
perior powers Of observation. and ready mother-wlt
70 the illustration of the incidents that occur in the
daily routine of a foreign tour. The chief value OF
the volume consists i'll the reflections OF the author
suggested by varieties of life and manners, to which
the reader finds no parallel at home. Dr. Bellows is
always prepared TO furnish apt moral; his descrip-
lions are often too long drawn out to command
lively interest; but his comments seldom fail to be
appropriate and suggestive. As an example OF thus
we may take his remarks the passion of our coun
trymen for foreign travel, though we are sorry that
he is obliged to set down prevailing hTSt as ma
tioDal trait.
After fortnight full OF interest aud excitement, we
leave Rome for brief excursion To Egypt and Palestine
We find many Americans setting their faces that way
Indeed whittier are they not going-and especially West
srn Americans There were eleven citizens Of St. Louis
In our small hotel last evening, and IL seems as II tne
prosperity of during the must be bearing
apart its fruits in the luxurious form of foreign travel
Tie English express end Of astonishmen at the curl
cannot understand how they should so commonly have
abe and the disposition 10 travel SO nuch ana 80
far Most Europeans. indeed have ridiculous horror or
che which they tlink made only Tor necessary
and not as the safest safest E9&e 81 to
Europe is natural and powerful as that who'll senns
old Americans. too, are curious to know what their
disadvantages They have suspicion that age and
experience may have turned out some products Whch
smarinoss, enterprise. and speed cannot bring ior9
The West. in its prodgOus strength yigor and apuna
ance, begins TO demand something beside its own
natural advantages and growths II Graves elegance
sT f9R aSs now Ss S vr d U p awe mid
aio mSnmthe st h6Gd Thar rs directly from Europe
II would not surprise me TO learn that WINE foWeIs,
Hart and other we.known sculpOrs originated IN ONO
and Kentucky, more orders Tor stauaIy n9WaaHys Tos
from the West than from the East believe ST. Louis
Boston within seven miles Of which she was born. The
West promises be less conventional IN lis tastes thah
the East less critical II has more general admiration
more thorough American product. il VIII have finer
public spirit and more local pride aud sense OF DUTY 70
rear to Importance in their own lifetime. When re-
members that Boston, York, Philadelphia, possess
not gallery Of pictures which Intelligent foreigner
would care 70 VISIT and that no COLLECTION anyw an
American artist idea of what the great masters In his
have accomplished one Is obliged TO call upon the
Western shame their elder cities by outsupping
hem in this race verify believe they will do IT,
II has been therefore with peculiar satisfaction that
have met such Large representation OF western men
and travelling in Europe: and venture 10 doubt
more keen, curious. earnest, and thirsty % set OF
travellers have set their foot on this Continent They
not microscopic and interested mainly in small cr
eisms Generous, comprehensive and looking at things
from the ground OF general principles, they are better
Judges Of what is good and bad, what worthy OF ima
dainty invls refined idler and bookbred ririuos who
spend their lives lettering through Europe Nor
stood next TO Wisconsin professor lin st. Peters
during the Christmas Massl who flooded INC with his apt
quotations from Latin and Greek authors and showed
that his Western learning was as exact as was co
thug best IN America century. All that is
that alone in earth in the essential purity and
Justice OF her fundamental law
The Mahometan religion naturally attra ced the
attention of Dr. Bellows in his visit to Egypt. and
In the plentude of his Christian charity. he depicts
its influence in favorable terms than will COM
mand the assent of most readers.
tits strange sensation for Christian to stand
called uncivizcd, and who yet confidently passonatey
% & To @ ooa hO So%n SS %
aud hatred by proud serneyed Turks because of ones
Christian dog to see crowds Of coarse begeay people
entering the mosques which stand with open doors ana
yet be denied entrance because Of the poung faint OF
Christian fshall this is very instructive rs wen rs
comes to consderit well These people know nOlhng OF
Christianity which ought 10 give u any superiority IN
their eyes Mohometanism. When the Arabian
prophet commenced his marvellous work, there is
Little doubt that lie animated by the sincere
eorrnSt and balf-beafhsn,zed CHRISTIANITY
compared with which his own pure MonOtheisu was
gody simplicity He overthrow the worship OF idols and
images and SET up faith which win an It's aegradng
poygamy (which II it did not introduce II put under the
protection Koran) yet essentially spiritual in
is worship OF the Invisible Allah the Supreme God Ma
hOnet recognized both dSpensaOns the Mosaic and the
Christian; ard his intelligent followers to this day speak
IeyereItly OF the Christ They evade the authority and
use OF Scriptures by asserting that they have been
thoroughly corrupted in their text. learned Mahom
etan u India however, has just Written the in
in which lie ably refes the ussulman Charge Of general
eorTuptnes and adduces all the passages quoted out OF
have Mussulmans seen OF Christianity TO commend it
greatly above their own fathf II il alleged that Ma
hometanisn has owed its rumphs and progress 10 tho
sword Is it the fault OF Christians II tho Cross has
advanced by the weapon What iDhde rage Of the
flaf If
Crusades and what has CGur de Lion to boast Saa
di IN enAghtenmont or appreciation OF the Christian
tngs and external forms, confess that the degrading
prosirations and crossings and numees Of the Greek
and Catholic Churches with The gaudy trappngs OF robes
ton Of an humble Jewish woman appeal TO me to have
nothing in the presence OF which Aussuimen Csicj
could feel the lesser Teasouabeness purity. or
dignity, or tho lesser credbliity OF their own una
dorned and simpler superstition Compared with
Catholic and Greek legends, the Koran is
model OF purity and eoqrence OF STYLE aud its
perstons do not much exceed ia erossness popular
interpretation gwen TO inonkish fables As it respects
ecclesiastical Interference aud tyranny MahOmotansn
eNhOie world in advance OF ROmanlsm or the Greek
SatSe se9ls is esnaS without priest or ritual in any
Cd Hns lse. ZIG hussuiIian Is ms own priest lie
nnos Alah everywhere, and he has only turn toward
eT is as good an altar as the mosGne n of 1y S " Gc;
ing TO see ne fidelity Of the common people their faith
the apparent heeaessness OF observation, the absorption
TOti0n. ~
Every day. 1--WE several times the devout unssulroar
goes into his mosque, II 1t DO nigh 10 saw his PRAYERS
Aud that may be nish he spends freely his substance
% spread mosques everywhere In the way of believers
Thick as Christian temples IN own and in other
MOSQUES here Rome ns s proin9n Of
800 TO goo mosques 1t is impossible say how many but
1t is difficult TO walk rods without stumbling upon
tombs OF caphs, kings, Mameukes connected with each
with It's dome grand IN its Simplicity Cairo las
many immense mosques, oftentimes reminding one bv
,toSether under one title, OF the molastc esta6.
70 them is Seldom 1 direct You a SsSen 5nI aa
Stairs ana pass through stately passages, almost