New-York tribune., 1871-12-14
ALEXIS AT THE HUB.
HOW BOSTON SHOWS HER LIONS.

| SCHOOL -sHIP-wHRN HR DANCED THE REST
STOPPED TO GAZE-TIIE HAPPY sKvKN-THE
| FLOW OF SOUL AND RORDERER-THE IN
| FANTs AND TIE HANDEL AND HAYDN-A
| MARROW NECK or LAND.
| IYROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT THE TRIBUNBl
BOsrON. Dec. 11.-"Oh, will ye choose to
| hear tho news'-ndsed think 70 might do worse-
hear how the Duke his pleasure took a the coner tho
universe all the little babes In town their little
hymns did rattle through tO him and his suite
and how they dined and danced here too He in
his beauty this heir Of tho kings they showed him the
Common. and State House and things; they wrote him
| some pOems they made him ball. and the glory OF
Bunker Hill shOno all. Como they como
they late be they princes Of the North kings Of tho
Cannha Islands, Boston has for its guests programme
OF entertainment which fails and varies
Frst-vst to State House and Faneuil Hail. Cradle OF
Liberty. nest OF American spread-eagle. and all
| that sort OF thing; Second-A ball. at which
Beacon-st. dances with His Highness. and the Lesser
planets wept little weeps Of envy third dinner with
A Poem fourth Great Organ, and innocent nfantile
from the publc-sohool children in pantaets and
rpundabouts assembled; fifth, Handel and Haydn Soci
ETY. sixth. SchOoShp. There other diversions OF
equally aesthetic nature. but these the chief
delights which await the Great the Apex OF Gvza
ton Alexis went mildly but firmly through them all
with excepton-he mercifully spared the
SchOOlShp. Does everybody know what the School
Ship is, It's the nautical moral babyhouse OF Massa-
chusettsan expensive paything. kept to show al awe
struck world. in the language OF little Jack.
How good bal
Just look at me-"
Oh stranger. here within gates, hast thou written
a book made particularly bad statuei Thou shalt
dina upon tho schooShp. Did thy ancestors como over
in tho May Flower and art thou coveri Thou shalt dine
Oh SchOoShp. Art thoublessed Fate "a lecturer
on patent politicsi Thou shalt dine the 5chOolship
Art thou, 0 Friend, OF the S0ngre azulf Then,
truly, shalt thou dine upon the school-ship
What forsooth are tho Red Ribbon OF Honor. the
Order OF Catherine the Star and the Garterf Let tho
eete civilizations OF YOurup rejoice In such trffes. Our
reward OF merit ia dinner upon the SchOOShp happy
blending the spiritual and material; delicious COM
bnntion Of soup and soul. Of sh and fame. OF beef
benev Violence. and bombastic bounce Gentle Charles
Dickens went down the harbor o. dtcors with
his Dinner aud made aspeech to the boys, fu OF sweet
gaiey and manly counsel Everybody who has gone
any where and done anything specially commendabc,
dimes there In fact everybody who Is brilliant and
charming has dned there. myself, have dined there
Well Alexis yet has escaped that homer unto which
he was born But beneath the roof Of the ball
which opened sort Of Serie for the e1hDoh OF
the dancing Bear Actually the social inalibities OF
Boston were guilty Of the bad taste Of forming breath
less and circle around tho Duke while he went
through the solitary luadrile Of the moment Win te
happy seven selected Ivy the Comnittee. But what
would yout Tie ridiculous ieneIents Of the depraved,
not to say eete European courts despse Our man
ners are those OF Republican simplicity ana so ons Us
w ba va the ,pirits OF men, cats will look at Kings
be they dancing not dancing. And Alexis was
goody sight gaze upon he danced. az he danced
He Is handsome ~ young Apollo, with his tall 1.-the
figure his pale hgh-bred face. his crisp hair and whis
kers 40 warmly deeply brown. lis celestial blue eyes,
The specimens Of royalty and nobility that wander 10
our shores are not always thus
And he dlnrd Boswell. what dinner
Learning wit. ina ynation-h"w the lixuriant cio-
aucnce OF Athenan bubhled and edded round
hint mt In
Eliot and ,n,nY inOtherY And they said to him as To
Massachus, in the words Of our great statesman,
Daniel There sbe stands" and invited much
inspection OF !. Institutions OF charity and learning
And there Pilgrim Rocks and Plymouth Fathers
scattered through dinner the most ornate and pa
trIotic manner and Alexis made speech neat as 1t
WAS short and the How Of soul-and Rocderer-was
ended with enormous satisfaction to everybody
The Boston Iufants tho come with chernbic
noise they are would they had not been-terrrsrial
girls aud boys. Little dears They sang 10 Alexis anu
exc tcy waved small but violent cotton aags TaSn.
with the kground Of great organs, formed sCeno -
u,e amplod gorgeousness and Cradle Of Liberty
Let no imagine that he can visit
Boston and escape the harmonious trouDiings Oh ner
scholastic babies and Of the Handel and Haydn Society
They the only performers IN the worid VINO ne'e
| have colds. sometimes it is shsnHandel ana Haydn
sometimes it is the Infants Sometimes 1t is the Handel
and HAYDN and the Infants Sometimes it Is the Infants
and the Handel and Haydn In this case it was both.
| For at the sunday night concert
When Thomas band, II tuck itS stand
SO sweety In the middle there.
| Aud soft bassoons played heavenly chuncs'
Aud yions did fiddle there
.e Handel and Haydn arose and -hOne And really thew
did it very we'll perfect training their contagious
fLn were never more apparent Even ROcco's ravash-
ing harpnOtes nut more preci"o ana shVeroiear
than the chOrding echoes of Mendelss0hns DELICIOUS
Farewell to the Forest" All that could he seen OF
Music Hall that night was ceiling and the pink cam
| a in hon
audience was like swarm of bees. 70 ticRly was IL
' And "A the luke with pr,ncely AIR.
Recionln' on his cushion
Al! round about the royal chair .
The starin' and the pushin was
The programme long. catacazy grow uneasy. but
the Primes didn't vince He clapped III kindy way
and once coughod whereat every car was strained 10
catch the sacred sound Ab the beauteons bellies OF Bos-
tom how they stared, They were all eye and admra-
ton One pretty bit of enthusiasm beside me- aIer
e,raning her emotions for five minutes, exploded thus
ou serieu: How his mother must love him.
Tho Young man John. behind mo- oDserVeo
to the iaudlady's daughter - In eyeglasses-
Rahth,r nice.ookin' young fcler. tho Grand Duke,
Amt ne :" To whom the expressive She On amt no
He looks 30 cevah !" And to look cieVah In ooS'"n'
don't you know, something for which tho godS ana
ou,., ancestors can never be suihoientlv thanked
D,d vo ever hear OF that cevah Boston dame who'
,,,r,, at hook store for Of Kans most abstruse
works, was told that they had It not and who re)oned
An have mt yOui Then DO 40 gOod az I'd give me
pucr bv Ouda certain lecturer Of yours says that
every nul.ation Of hesomothiDg-oh, heart and bran
believe. Of New England, s felt by you OF New-fork.
IL il So indeed How much and what does big bustling
v,r,le vivid New-York take from Bo'ton's solemn
clsvernesst Doesn not take Col YAK. my renas ana
bis men servants and his naid+ervants ana ms catuo'
and the light OF Herewith with them Seriously for q
cy Of Radicals, Boston ia very narrow. Tnere
ia eo.pr locale over everything 10 s not IN the least
nnsn'nnnitan II ia yirtuous, II - charitable, II Is
crverS n hath Gilmore, and the Pilgrim Fathers ana
the Infant Band OF HARMONY anm bmnKer % - m hrsnt