, 1872-10-27

1t was like being on E horn of the moon. a frae
ment OF a wandering star, SO far removed did he
Sc seem to be from the life Of the present time,
: ne y; MvyngroWn M and embowered ruins Of ireland
II 1s wen TO see hrst, for one gets whole i'm
precision Of the spirit Of the poet before he is
called to admire the beauties Of architectnre
and Of ideality. ''1@~SS'~'A0
Quickly enough one is forced to begin
70 MAKE CHOICES
OF what he will sec, and what he will be content
to leave unseen. He had to make the
choice one day between Darwin and York Min
ster, and decided On the theory that the Min
ster would endure q while longer but Darwin
might not. So, again. be had to choose between
Iennyson and some piece Of architectural art.
and went to meet Tennyson.
THE FULL GLORY OF THE CATHEDRAL
VAS never revealed to him until he stood in that
at Cologne; and he read short extract from q
journal written on the spot, while the impress
sion was on him. He wrote it there, because ha
felt that he must write or die; even if lie wrote
nothing more than one OF Mother Gooso's Melo-
dies; write something he must. At last he
know Cathedral. He could say, with Haw-
thorne, it was his only fulfilled ideal, but for
that word 3sonly." Then there WAS bit of
terse but beautiful description, ending with
reflection which, Mr. Higginson said, Was inolu-
bitable evidence Of lis New Englaudism. s'What
wonderful strength it must have cost the Re-
formers to turn their backs on all this |"
Nothing that he saw Of Art 30 haunted him as
TIE WONDERFUL CARVED CREATURES
at the top of Notre Damo. It was hard to i'm
agine the Paris ho saw was tho Paris of our read
ing: III spite Of the few blackenel ruins,
nothing in Paris seemed to be conscious Of the
t1ta4Dao .taEeGe "h4cI A..u la5ety oeen enacteo
oart t,,aaa naA ~ mol1a snuuael,1n11hng ex
eups s4.' .uoso f1 clteu aulaees ~ ~ strange
tho railing and looking down over the city. How
could any one feel safe?
In the intention and purpose Of his trip, HUI
NANNY seemed 70 ~ Nun more desirable oo]ect OF
stuoy tnah Art. NEat surprised INN; from the
moment OF lanGAnS IN England, WAS, that
He LOST HIS NATIONALITY.
ae found he was among Englishmcn still.
After travelling acroes the sea, Instead Of finding
strange people, ne was among just such people
as az he had always known Ae never came On
the track of that England which is SO unlike
America that it can't be known. It was not the
England Emerson and Hawthorne found. His
stay there was almost short enough to enable
him to have theory, and, SO far as it was
formed, II explained the phenomenon by guppos-
Ing that 3 cnange was coming over the Ens5llsh
cnaractef. American men ana M Ehgnsh men
aaPpeat co oe assnm1asine' lne same was not I1
True. OF, a1 least not IN tne Same oe6ree, OF the
other sex; an4 81 tne men, Mas
tfuef OF Tue Lonaonor 1han Oh other
Engllshmen. Ihe conditions OF journal
ism, the hurry OF the underground HALL
ROAD, tue competitions OF business, are sharpen.
ing the nervous system OF the Londoners. at
the c1uo, ne 'coulant distinguish EnGnanmen
from !. americans. 40 WIS often mistaken TOR an
EnSlshman, anu hlmse1 mstake otner atnefi-
cans Tor EnSls and Engishmen Tor Arnerl-
cans. Ihe feeling 81 kindness he experienced
was very pleasant. He Was, on q few occasions,
called to account for the exploits OF his college
acquaintance, Hancrott Davis; but he defended
himself BY declaring that Davis was never much
IN American public life, and got whatever dlplo-
matte training he had IN England He encount-
cred none Of the traditional ungraclousness ~ OF
puenaety' 70 pe sure, shaao" "oaio LII ove1 s
Tue lace OF some acquaintance when toia
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ueti,;geJ ~ 1v;t tto irn;n,, @ c,nso I,1t hay;ng
been informed, or miainformed, he feared Of Of,
to1tJ maan M1,an uo an1n tah - 10 A7
eoA'n'' A'sSDeon :. ,e5reqHa enc rso7nrxr
~ i,torria1s Win saroe,o+ nf tho coraa,rearo
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uuasos ae 1,et % ~ III tno iG1t ;1;to,, Uitu u ene
lo"n' anu, nesnlns " 'ists ia,s t;' sa1atsol;
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anu naI Eay9 nn 81 ~ "ns tha
ha wa ~ sI not fa;r snac;men of tha r;uar1s H.
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~ na3 uoa ~ aa;1 10 ~ 'n1 s to,, 1r 49, 1rord ~
hono,r ~, I,, an 11a ato,+ aat nan ~ tha ro";Tnent
nh a.; 'oS ~ sE@aa4t +hat +ba
Of the % rorment IN I should not ' sutfer e throueh
h him was ~ fhe easanca If nobonasa ~ H;s stafe-
ment w. va ~ tr,, and tha fart that he forrnt To
1nsnt;on waa , thnt lis aycent;ona1 transfer ~
thc rccimant was snec;al marx nf honor for ex-
traordInerv servicea f~'''' t14'~1 = - '4~N'~1
IN tla yhola i,a cou,d ae,raa With Hawthorne
that A'0 ~0@'0 "e-~ "1''1
'AS' rxo, ,a,,,,rx
ara honaat l;n;,iy cnnsn;ant;onz naon1a ,ass
t;,o,s Ir;nens -,t
,i111I;o1n ataa5;nas' -, ~ H. rast,oeta1 A.
Tl1;s Sn1 ..a,;1. ~ ~ t ~ Esfar-
a,.as p .ot 5,. y" nj NJ ~ Tn-igh
., eus1 % nus W paI Hasans15e: aIe tnens99
ctoMa M - Molo stupIu, ano toou-nasuieu' aiao
sastol ~ ina.ase. touiu tn9
Lela - tne puop1e ptteer eAan uas peen !eP4ez
sentea, ana I4ouent them qnlte as eoelal aa
;fs1 Aneians. - Hele, agaln, he ihlnkb o9ange as
h1an44est, anu Fna! the tRg1lanman IL less eA"
clIsite 1yit1, thsn aa 1osmer4y. 70 F.! .,,.:..u., =,
nltn respect so tlle n'3nef "alAs u so-
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