Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-12

| firm this monstrous piece of imbecility. 1t is
one tissue of vulgar common places, well worn
incidents, bombast, buncombe and improbabity
from beginning 10 eud." Mr.. Byron is eharac-
terized as a mediocre artist, though coCl cheeky
ank rather good looking youngiman, but alas !
poor Byron, aud OH most wretched playwright
However, the play was well patronized, which
may be a little crumb of comfort to its Ingin
fghdn' hero"
The hurrying crowds, as they rush along
Washington, steeet pass wholly unmindfu the
bulletin boards of the booksellers with their an
nouncements of the Finite and the Infinite"
Radical Problems" "The Unknown" and
without entangling ourselves and Others in
twisted snar in endeavoring to review such
mysterious mysteries, we will notice briefly the
american Girl Abroad, a book that has created
a sensation almost equal TO Miss AlcottS Little
Women Forty copies, at one of the circulating
libraries, were "out" several days in answer to
our repeated call. 1t is written in very much
the same fresh, lively vein, developed by Miss
Alcott, with little more rattle and dash, and
sharper, more piquant wit. The authoress is
Miss Trafton, daughter of Boston clergyman,
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vations and adventures of herself and lady,
1.-TWO lorn women" in crossing the Atlantic and
doing the sights of London, Paris, Brussels,
Geneva, the ordinary circuit of tourists Few
books of travel discriminate well in regard to
chow much of detail is proper, but they are apt
to give the miles, the cups of coffee or tea and
other minuti9 dd ld1tSeam. Miss Trafton has,
however, invested the old routine with a new
charm. She has a playful fancy, is shrewd
observer of men and places, without being very
well posted.in their history, is so much
the better,-has a keen sense of the ludicrous,
and the happy faculty of making you laugh be-
cause she laughs so blithely herself, is always
on the lookout for fun and adventure and
writes with an enthusiasm quite contagious.
She will condnct all who accompany her on the
tour with perhaps little preft, but much enjoy
ment
OF course, no letter from Boston nowadays
is complete without some reference, however
slight, to the grand peace jubilee, of whose ex-
istence, by this time, even the Bcdouin Arabs
must be aware. The form and proportion of
the huge mass is dimly BODIED forth, and inspires
the beholder with Juster conception of the inn
mcnsity OF the undertaking. In truth, it will
not be unworthy its great namesake, the colos-
sal amphitheatre at Rome, and perhaps it will
live as long in the world of music as the latter
has in history, though the enormous pile of
ruins just outside the Eternal City still serves to
recall the story of former greatness, inspiring
Gibbon, Byron, and how many Others. In Yes
pasians time it seated 10000 people, though |
believe by successive engagements in the reign of
Constantine the great, it seated upwards of 3OO,-
900, and had eighty arches of entrance. 1t is
surely no mean thing, however, if an cphemeral
structure, even in one particular admits of COM
parlson with the grandly magnificent proper
tons Of such famous monument. The modern
coliseum is 300 feet wide and 500 long, requiring
G,CO0,O0O feet Of lumber in It's construction, and
including chorus and audience, will hold over
100000 people. Boston anticipates huge time
the 18th Of June, and when once the carnival is
inaugurated, the joy and pleasure will be uns
bounded. G. +. FLCULA.