New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
MARK TWAINS BOOK.

Mari, Twain as the readers Of THE IiiDOc -. @"
ANY rate must remember, was one Oh ,"o - 80 ,Io
hand who in 1867 sailed from new loiA >"
Quaker City on "A sort Of WhoieS'io ' -
.vorrs;o, r,,,d the world. They were To go every
whore and see everything and nave DO ei'",
,bout il either for their leader declucu "''l' -
o,ght IN see and showed them just now " 'oo
We believe they did get great ue"i u .hair
80 Frrooe and the HOLY Land Tor thoIi
on'o y. axr,onditrre Of time and money and marx
-, occasionally during the voyage coh'rIou'ou
a. IT, TprpIryr his impressions OF foreign iauu' an"
-. o,a a narrative of some of the lnciuenIs VI
-, Here however we have compete n'S'oiS
y a. ,ovogc. copiously illustrated MI CieineiS
r. an alo,ninablo Irreyerence lor u""I'' CIV
.,thoritv-vhich sometimes unfortunately u'sc"
erates into an offensive irreyerehce Ior 'usS
IT, ,., hold sacred-and makes not the sHgh'esI
hosi,otion at expressing his opinions IN the very
,Ia,pest possible language, no matter no" uhoItno
dow they may be. There is nothing when nc leAiS
IA laugh at, and though some people may WISH '"'C
he had been a little more tender OF the IoiuaH0o VI
travel it Is certainly refreshing to iilu CIti0'
who does not care what other tourists have SAID De-
him The greater part of his book is pure fun
and considering how much of it there Is, the fresh
moss il wonderfully well sustained. Mr.. Clemens,
since the death of Charles F. Browne, must be rated
&C the chief representative of that peculiar kind OF
hnmor in which Artemus Ward was without par
alIel II is q humOr whose principal elements arc
not bad spelling and verbal buresque, LOT MHh
Twain does not practice those arts. but sort OIL SOL
emn audacity and wild commlnghng OF the lhosU
incongruous ideas Take, for instance, his account
of visit to to the Roman Coliseum, where he pro
fesscs 70 have found among the rubbish the ohIy
play-bil of that establishmentnow eXtant" hegiNeS
it in full together with criticism on the perform
ance from The Roman Daily Bdttie-AT OF the perlou'
He describes very senslbly the visit of the tourists
to the Gar and after sober account OF HIS MaJesys
sppearance adds: IF could have stolen his coat l
would have done it. When meet man like that
want something to remember him by. In Rome he
was bored by the Old Masters whom he coniesses
that he could not appreciate;
In this connection wish word about Mlchaei
Angelo Buuuaruti. used 10 WORSHIP IHe HIi-lS
OF Michael AngclO-that man who WAS great IN IUv'S,
pauug sculpture architectuTe-gredt 10 every ius nc
undertook. But do not want Michael AScio ioI ni' S
fast-fOr uucheon--for dinuer-ior tea-I4r SupIS,o
between meals. like change occasionally IN Genoa
he designed oyeythlns ~ Milan ne OF ms PHiS o. in
signed everything he designed inc I@he "I 1Ilo, ~
Padua Verona Venice Bologna, who ala we ever heaf9l
from guides but Michael Angelo III fioIeu n no
painted everything a. siSH'u every tl'E' M fr,,r
what he did not design lie used 70 SIT on a ia'Vi,
iie stone ana l9Gk at ana s,r eey eveTvIb1g but
the Old shOttOWCr, ana thCy WOulu hHNo az
tribued that 10 him had not been SO awfuly on OF
the perpendicular He designed the piers oI itSLulH
aud the Custom House REGULATIONS OF OlNta Nt'cHl.
lVrp-lgT1 { j.
he designed the Pope ne G.siSe" Tio Ihe
form OF the Popes soldiers the ll9el the NaIeq I
Palace 81 Jon4 La'y5aNi !nV s ~ o9Ia the Gland.
ian Auueduct the COaca MaN!ma-the eternal pore 9e-
signed The Eternal City, and unless all men ana DOORS uo
lie. he painted everything IN II!
never It So fcryemtly thankful so soothed, tran
qull, filed win blessed peace as ara yesterday
when learned that Michael Angelo was dead
The guides were an intOerable nuisance. but lie
shows his countrymcn how to deal with them:
His truITn Ig
through miles OF pictures ana sculpture ~ 'n ni
Hast coriIs ~ in o. other palaces: he has shown
us the great picture in the Stne Chapel ana 1reseOes
enough to fresco the neaNcnS-aDd pIety uy an IN
by Michael Angelo. so with MN we have playeu 'hat
game which has yanquished so many guides loI usll
becty and idIOtiC questions These creatures never
su-peCt-they have 10 idea Of a sarcasm, -,
He shows us a figure and says Statoo brunzo''
e look al It ndnerenty and the doctor asks by
Michael AngelOF
Then lac shows MS the ancient Roman Forum Inc uoc
stare from the guide. "No-thousan year before he
Then an Ecyptian obelsk Again: michael Angelo 2"
"Oh, mon deU, genteelmen lis IS too thousan year
He grows so tired of that unceasine question some
times, that he breads TO snow us anything at all Inc
tried all the he can think OF TO make us
comprehend that Michael Angelo is only responsible Tor
creation of part OF the world but somehow ne mas
not succeeded yet Relief for overaSked eyes aud brain
study and sghtseeing is necessary or we shan be-
come IdOtic enough. Therefore this guide must
continue to suffer u he does not ENJOY H. 50 hu'n 'Ne
The doctor asks the questions generally, because he
can keep his cOuntenauce ana LOOK more IKE an inspired
idiot and throw mbeclity in the tone OF his voice
than any man that lives II comes natural to him.
The guides IN Genoa are delighted 70 secure AmeT
can party because Americans much wonder and deal
ScnT6n Our guide there ndseed about as i he had
swallowed a spring mattress lie was IGu VI ah4ndtlon
Come wis me- genteelmen leone! show you re
letter written by Christopher CoOmbo write 1t him
sclf!--WTitc it Wis his Own hand !-cOme ~
lie took us 20 the municipal palace. After much i'm
prcssyc funblins Of KEYS and opening OF locks the
lfIg atna pfl Wdz IL
guides sparked He danced about us and tapped
the parchment with his finger:
"What / tell YOU genteelmen! Is il not sOf See.
Handwriting Christopher COlOmb O-wrte 10 himself!
We looked iudideIeut-uucoucerned. The doctor
suincd he document very deliberately during a painful
pause Then he said without any show OF interest:
"Ah-Ferguson-W hat-what dld you say was the
name of the party who wrote thsr
"Cnristopier Colombo! " great Christopher Co.
Another deliberate examination.
"Ah-dld he write hiiuseli or-Or how y
"He write IL himself -ChrlstOpAer Colombo! he's own
Ther The doctor laid the document down and said
old that cond write better than that"
Bnt this is re great Christo-"
81 don't care who II IS! It's the worst writing ever
saw. Now you mustn't think you can impose on US be-
cause We are strangers We are not fools by good deal
If yon have got any specimens oil penmanshp OF real
merit, trot them out and you haven't drive on"
We have made it interesting for this Roman guide.
Yesterday spent three OF four hours Ia the Vatican
again, that wonderful world Of cuiostes. We came
Ne) near expressing interest sonetincs-eyen admira,
tOn-lt was very hard 10 keep from IT, We succeeded
though NODOuy ciNt ever uil III INC NdJcdn museums
The guide was OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES He walked
ms legs on nearly, hunting up extraordinary
things, and exhauted all his ingenuity us, but
II failure; we never showed any interest in any
thing He had reserved what he considered TO be his
greatest wonder tin the las-a royal Egyptian mummy
the best preserved ln the world, perhaps He took
there. He felt sure, tins uie that Of his old
thusiasm came back to him.
" See, eenteelmen! Mummy! Mummy"
The eye-gass came up as calmly, as deliberately as
"Ah,-FergusOn-What did understand you 10 say the
gentlemans name VAST
Name i-he cot no name Mummy Egyptian mum
N.Y.
ayes, yes Born heTer
"NO! 'GyptidH mummy"
"Ah, Just 80. FrenChman, presume"