The New York herald., 1873-07-22

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His 6hahship's reception in Paris gives Us
the opportunity to present our readers with
q dual description of the scene from the facile
pens of Mr.. Edmund Yates, the English novel
list, and Mr. George W. Hosmer, of the HERALD
staff In addition we present highly enter
tanning sketch of court and diplomatic life
at Teheran from the pen of new contributor.
Mr.. Grenville Murray, to whom we allude, is
o gentleman of vast experience in English
journalistic and diplomatic circles. Orig
inally appointed TO the London Foreign
Office, Mr. Murray has served as attache
to several English embassies and as
Her Britannia Majesty's representative in
more than one quarter of the globe. The
literary result Of these experiences was first
given to the world in series of admirable
papers, entitled ''The Rowing Englishman,"
which appeared in Household Words, and
which so delighted the late Charles Dickens
by their graphic fidelity as to induce him to
offer constant employment to the gifted
writer. The pen which Mr.. Murray welded
was, however, not merely fluent but a very
bitter one. Under the title of "Sir Hector
stubble" he produced pen portrait Of the
English Ambassador at Constantinople, Sir
Stratford Canning (now Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe), which, while ludicrously exagger-
ated, was so wonderfully lifelike as to
cause great sensation among those
who knew the original This and other
preparations of similar nature served to
make o breach between Mr.. Murray and his
official superiors, which ended in his retiring
from the Foreign Office and devoting himself
to literature. Of late years he has resided
in Paris, and, being thoroughly acquainted
with tho arcana of French society, has under
taken to elucidate them for the benefit of
English readers. His sketches of Frenchmen
and French social life (''Men of the Empire,
"Parisian Journalists" 'sThe Member for
Paris" &c), published in the CornhA Maga-
zine and the Pail Mall Gazette, are universally
acknowledged to be singularly able and true
and in retaining Mr.. Murray's services for the
HERALD we feel that we have added worthy
couaboratcw to an already brilliant band.
Having followed the steps of that fierce
'1ittle dark man in spectacles," the Shah,
through the great shows and side shows which
England got up for his qualification and her
own, our trusty correspondents succeeded
once more in ''bagging him. as he was drawn
up the magnificent avenue, having the Arc de
rEtoile in its course and all Paris beyond, as
you enter the city from the west If the
Shah's visit to Europe produced nothing more
than the observations made by shrewd
judges of men concerning the effect
of this barbarian monarch's appearance
upon the different peoples, it would
have served good purpose. Everybody
has been doing his best to astonish
the Shah; and when men strut before others,
clad in their darling vanities, the little side Of
greatness is often painfully apparent. Thus
England set herself the task of "impressing"
herself as well as the Shah, and when the
typical Englishman has reached the sublime
height Of the superlative in self-esteem the
valley of the absurdly ridiculous looms by as
provokingly as the grinning mouth of Punch
inello does to his herocally Roman nose.
Naval shows for a king without q navy, operas
for man who hates singing, and balls for a
man who can't dance, are things funny
in themselves, but absolutely comical
when supplemented by sparring match
at Buckingham Palace between two noted
"bruisers." The popular mind which goes
Shah-mad to-day as it went Sayers-and- Keenan,
mad twelve or thirteen years ago, and will go
anything else mad tomorrow, was well worth
the attention paid it by our correspondents
during the London fever over Nassr-ed-D Din.
1t is not very great distance from London to
Paris, but the transfer of the Shah as sort of
popular loadstone from .one city to another at
once draws forth shades Of difference in char
acter that are extremely curious. The impress
sion that the French are volatile people leads
to many false conclusions, as does the idea that
the English are dull, morbid and taciturn. No
populace can relieve the monotony of every
day conversation with howl of delight equal
to that Of London. Shakespeare drew his idea
of the ''universal shout that made the yellow
Tiber s'tremble underneath her banks when
Pompey appeared, from the English cheers Of
the prentice boys by the banks of the Thames
when Queen Bess went to the City. Well,
therefore, may Mr. Yates lament like Rachel,
and refuse to be comforted for the loss Of the
"Hip, hip, hurrahl" of England, or the &C.
static "tiger'' of this Republic, as ho observes
the Shah passing up the Avenue be-
tween crowds of silent people. Mr.. Hosmer
dips into the reasons for this indifferentism,
and finds that an unrepublican hungering after
the glitter and glare and fanfare of the En-
pire, of which the shah's reception forms
itself into o ghostly resemblance is at the
bottom of it. French crowds, however, are
never so vociferously choral as English ones.
The Inter viii cheer when their feelings are
wrought upon. The former are rarely demon
strative in this particular, their very vive s
this or vive Ia that being sufficiently indicative
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