The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-01-31
The Grand Dukes Book ON America.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the
Battle Gazette has seen advance-sheets of
the first volume of the Grand Duke Alexis
account of his voyage around the world.
This f''@s voinmei is exclusively devoted to
fures Treessef1Ptl3n n Lon Of the Grand Dukes adven-
mentioned correspondent writes as follows
about it:
ssThis is certainly very curious work
To Judge from what have read OF It
whether his Imperial Highness wrote it
himself, or whether an ADLER pen did it for
him-the book ssis intensely interesting.
The Grand Duke says that his reception in
| New York almost stupetied him. Up to
| the last moment he had not thought that so
brilliant IAN ovation would be rendered IN
Republican America to the son OF mon-
arch. He was very weak when he landed
in New York, and during his progress up
Broadway he frequently felt like fainting.
| But everybody was so kind to him that he
| tried hard to look pleased, as he was in his
heart of hearts. Broadway, he says, is in
his opinion, the finest thoroughfare in the
world, because everything there, houses,
shops and the people, look not monotonous
but gay, lively and bright. What amused
him, perhaps more than anything else was
that the bands, upon catching sight of him,
struck up, not the regular Russian anthem,
but the so-called Dirge of st. Catharine,
which is played in Russia only at the funer-
ais of a member of the imperial family
The cheers of the people were more def
ening than any he had heard in Europe
from which he playfully concludes that lung
diseases cannot be very prevalent in thu
New World. AS to the soldiery, the variet.
of uniforms struck him as extremely odd
He says he saw peacefully side by side
helmeted Prussians and 'kepied French
men, relocated Englishmen and Irisl
troops bearing the banner Of the Greer
Isle.
ssThe Grand Duke cannot praise to-
highly American hotels. American fare
he thinks, however, is too rich. There
at their tables, he exclaims, nai0ely, al
: ways too much of a good thing. aske
e for the peculiar dishes of America, and a
e the hotel they could not give ME any. Thei
t cooks were Italian and French. The lane
e lord shrugged his shoulders when | aske
e him about it. Out West, however, my dt
a sire was at once gratified. | dined one da
h on baked pork and beans, a very palatab
dish, which would certainly bear transplan
= ing to Russia.
American manners, the Grand Duh
. thinks, are little awkward and angula
, but decidedly pleasant on account OF ever
body's frankness He tells a number
r curious anecdotes on his experience viii
: the aborigines. In Washington he was to
: that the Irish servant girls at the residen
Il of NJ. Catacazy were dying to sec him. I
put on cap and an old travelling coat, al
went unheralded down into the kitche
u among them. He was not recognized
u the Biddies, and clatted with them for he
at an hour. Hefound that not one of them hi
n an idea of where Russia was situated, al
y one of the girls even asked him If the W
% always wore a crown ON his head, addil
z, that she knew the Queen of England
sn ways did. Equally amusing is the accou
lg of his reception at Omaha, in Nebrasi
u where a member of the Legislature &C
graduated him on tile success of his fatf
of in the war with France. Another legisla'
to of that State wanted to know if it was
~ ,.,a x,s nald r., R,,cSin
re aThese funny episodes in the West, no
" ever, were made up for by the extrel
st. kindness and consideration with which
his army officers there treated the Grand Dul
or For General Custer and his subordin'
81. officers the Grand Duke has words Of
he warmest gratitude. General Clusters 3 p
HE tograph is published in the volume, wh
ms is most sumptuously printed and profls
ed illustrated. Only 4 few hundred copies
tile book win be issued.