The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-11-15
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From TtSalnS Memoranda" In TIE December
GALAXY.
l take tho following paragraph fIom an
article In the Boston AdUerttaer.'
An ENGLISH CRTTIC ON MARK TWAIN,
Perhaps the most successful flights Of
she lIQmQG0f Mark Twain have been de-
sCfipli0IS Ofthe persons who did not aT-
pr eidie lis humOr at all. We have be-
come familiar with the CalifoFnians who
were thrilled with terror by his burlesque
OF q newspaper reporters way Of telling o
story, and we have heard Of the Pennsyl-
vunIa clergyman who sadly returned his
"IDpOccntS Abroad" to the book agent
with the remark that 'the man who could
shed tears over the tomb Of Adam must be
an idiot" But Mark Twain may now add
much more glorious instance TO his string
6fr6phies. Tho Saturday ReUtetO, In It's
number Of October s, reviews his book Of
travels, which has been republished In
England, and reviews it seriously. We
can imagine the delight Of the humorist
In reading this tribute to his power; and
indeed 1t Is so amusing In itself that he
can hardly do better than reproduce the
article in full in his next monthly Memo
randa.
TPubllsbipg tho 6B9Fe paragraph thus,
gives brit Of Aulhorll ior repro
ducipg ID Stttuallg ReVI D ARTICLE in
full In these pages. l dearly wanted TO
do 1t, for / cannot write anything half so
delicious myself II | had cast.iron dog
that could read this English criticism and
preserve his austerity, l would drive him
of the door.stPp.-EditOr Memoranda.
Efua ne london Saturday RsrierO
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS,
TIE IHNoCENTs ABROAD. A Book Of
Travels. BY Mark Twain. London: HOt-
ten, publisher. 1870. y
Lord AIacaulay died too soon. We neY.
or felt this so deeply US when we finished
the last chapter Of the above.nAmcd OK.
travagant work. 1Iacaulay died too soon
for none but he could mete out complete
aud comprehensive justice to the insolenCe,
tho impertinence, the presumption, the
mGndacity, and, above oil, the majestic
Ignorance Of this author. :.
fFB5aytthNs tlIe En1e Gents Abroa az q
u curious IJOpk. w bid be psethe tattlte#
latIguageE zsouldlBe ID speak oL the Mat
tcrllorn as neat elevation, or Of Niagara
rs being "nice" or "pretty." "Curious"
is ton tame word wherewith to describe
the imposing insanity Of this work. There
is no word that Is large enough or long
enough. Let us, therefore, photograph a
passing glimpse Of book and author, and
trust the rest to tho reader. Let the cul-
tiyated English student Of human nature
picture to LimseIF -this Mark Twain Us
person capAhlcd doing the following-de-
scribcd things-and not only doing them,
but with incredible innocence printing them
calmly and TRANQUILITY in book. For in
stance:
He states that lie entered a hair.drcss-
ers in Paris 10 get shaved, and the first
Wrake" the barber gave with his razor 1t
looSened his Wilde" and lifted him out Of
tho clair.
This Is unQuestlonlbly exaggerated. In
lFldrenceAd was sd ahnbyed by SbeSgarsi
d lat he pIeIends "a hay seized and satenI
one in afrantic spirit Of revenge. There
is ofcourse no truth in this. He gives at
full length theatrical programme seven
tcen or eighteen hundred years old,which
he processes 10 have found in the ruins Of
the Coliseum, among the dirt and mould
and rubbish, It Is y sufficient comment
uDon' this statement to.rcmark that even q
Gastir6h pf6gtanimc would not have 1asl.
ed Sd / nE nlde such eifnumsb lnces, GIN
Greece lie plainly betrays both fright and
flight upon oneE OCCASION, but with frozen
cfrontcry puts: tIfc' latter in this falsely
tame form ".We ruled TOWARD the Pr
sb,ls!n q HSidled,m ittdecd4 He does not
hesitate 10 intimate that at Ephesps, when
liismulc stfayGd from the proper scourse,
he got down, took him under bis arm,
carried him TO the road again, pointed
lin fight, femOunted, and went Vi sleep
coutGntcdly tilEit was time to restore the
beast TO the path once more, carHe states
that o growing youth among his ships
passengers was in thehabft 3lSAppe9slhg
lis hunger with soap and oakum between
meals. In Palestine he tells OF ants that
came eleven miles to spend the summer
In the desert and brought their .proYislons
with them; yet he shows by'his desct1p.
ton Of the country that the feat was an
impossibility. He mentions, as II IT were
Tie most commonplace Of matters that he
cut a Moslem in two in broad daylight IN
jerusalem, with Godfrey de Bodillon's
sword and would have, shed more bl99d,
If BhGd hgd a GrdoSydfd q MS Olon.
These statements are unworthy umoin-