, 1874-12-13
Destination Of American Ideas About
English Women.
Prevalence Of Thick and Dingy Complex
ions-a Riot Of False Color.
An Unknown Equcstrienne VINO
Is the Cynosure of All Eyes.
Fine Appearance Of the English
Gentleman.

Special Correspo4der.et Of Tx Chicago Tritn"e-
BaIGHTos, Eng, November. 1874.
November has not very amlable reputation
generally. The very ramo brings to our mlnos
thoughts of tho fierce winds that rave and fret
against our dwellings. shaking loose shutters rs
if in frenzy, and shrieking bitter complaints
down our chimneys. November in America Is
almost synonym for pallid skies; for landscape
perspcctiye that fade into dim gray distance;
for foreerouuds fecked and dashed with gusts OF
powdery SNOW; for atmospherea chill With tue
breath of the on-hasting winter; for general
alarm, as if Nature sorrowed over the deaa
ciosies OF the most superb ch1ld OF the year.
the gorgeous Indian summer.
November is the month IN which our morning.
dreams begin first to be disturbed by the CHATTER
of raking down the ashes Of the furnace,-for
later. grown accustomed to the matutlnal up
roar, NC sleep through it all 4; The month When
SHUT The DO0R." is the discordant crash into
I'll our domestic symphonies; the month When
the eyes Of strangers the streets meet gllsten-
ing With sympathetic tears. and when the biting
Ei1 hangs 4 scarlet banner upon the cutter walls
Of every wayfarer's countenance-
1CT NOVEMBER IN LONDON
character than our Western one. For, III the
great city, it seems mora sulky oven than else
where,-more like an acidnlated. lachrymose
spinster among the twelve daughters Of the
:ear, than like the loud-yoiced mou1uer, it is
upon our side Of the sea. November in London
wraps itself in nunlike garments. robes Of SOM
bre gray, as with us; but it is not crisp. frefh
raiment, garb Of braeins air and Golf of spotles5
snow. but bedraggled garments Of mist, and log,
and chilling rain, Of mud, Of choking smoke,
of relaxing temperatures, and general dlnGl-
ness OF hue that canses the beauty-loviug eye to
languish for bit Of vivid color, TO- faint for
CLEAN OF Tintoretto-like glow.
-Of all the dolorous things that human expert
ence has eyer encompassed, it seems as If No
yenber in London ia the most dismal. Tho
broadcast moon fits past like pale, wan spectre
Of day; while morning and evening drift bE,
seeming only pall1d shadows OF the Kingdom OF
Night, whence they come and whittier they re-
urn.
THE DREARy FOG
settles heavily upon the city, shutting away the
light OF heaven, and inclosing all who walk tho
streets in circumscribcd Epaco Of perhaps 5 OF
5 feet within which, is feeble light enough to
prevent one from dashing his brains out against
/ lamp-poet On coming into violent collision with
his neighbor, while all beyond is darkness. The
ahop-windows are ablaze with gas-lght, which.
in the semi -opaqueness Of the day, throws such
3 elckly glare upon tho tempting objects dis
Played, that one wonders if indeed his eye be
not iaundiced that al things look such an uu-
wholesome yellow. In the distorting atmos-
phero, objects lose all their natural proportion.
Crnnibuses loom up in the mist. in Oxford street.
and Regent crcus, as if whole city Of houses
had fallen under some necromnncer's spell, and
was lodging to and fro, rushing here and dash
ing there, with roar and rattle Of cumbersome
movement, utterly futile and purposelees. Cabs
aud carriages creep warily through the gloom,
magn11ied to the proportion OF district-school-
houses or country-jails; lamp-posts and pillar
bo1es expand aud e1ongato to The magnificent
dimensions OF triumphal monuments; while tho
policeman upon the curbstone and tie beggar at
the corner grow to the grand proportions Of tho
Colossus Of Rhodes. Everything scems
WEIRD AND UNNATURAL;
tho very pavement beneath ones feet is black
aud Shiny, rs if oyerdowing by the dark current
Of tho Ety1; and one knows not by optical ex-
perience, aB he struggles through HE nurky
gloom, il h1s feet wade through iuk q: blood, =
knows nothing so well as that he ih'' Q de1n'd
moist, unpleasant body" aud that the tragic
horrora Of Dante's Inferno might havef been in
tensifed by g few realistic touches OF 4the Lon
don fog.
1t is picture that Dore might paint for its
weird, fantastic, unreality-in-rea}ity; one that
Turner mi gllt have copied for the strange effect
of tue yaporous shroud that enfolds the scene.
After one has seen the London November. he
can never wonder that all LOndonere who can,
rush away from its miEeriea, and flock in such
hosts to the favored spot where the skies have
the amethyst beauty of June; where the blue
waters sparkle In the sunshine MS it laughing
with eternal summer; where the breezes arc
III NHn
crisp, still air braces the enervated and depleted
zystem Us the night devs strengthen and refresh
The flowers that droop in the too fervid sun
shine,-that the place gains the name of
LOSDoS-sUpEn-MARE-
This place is Brighton, the proud city on the
sussax coast, called the queen Of English water
Eng-places.
1t may be said that Brighton has no particular
season -; OF perhaps it may better be said that
the Brighton seasons last the whole year through,
tor 1t hasso many. 1t must not be imagined By
shoEe who have only known OF Brighton from
Tue pages OF soclety-novels, and from the Court
Journals % and fashionable gossip Of England,
maj the only Brighton season Is that in which
nobte Dukes and proud Ears come from their
castles, abbeys, and manors, or return from Cou-
tlnental travel, to drive On the Esplanada or tn
promenade on the famous Pier, together with the
E1oneyed but untitled who form the bulk of Lon-
con society. This NAV be called the fashionable
season, for it is then, when London ia uneudur-
see aud Brighton so radiant that costumes from
North's. artistic inspirations and Ideals Of tolly
n velvet silk, and Iomespun, rayish the ferni.
alne sight upon every eide. Then it ia that
,att1c'an DANES sweep along the pier, trailing
.he!r velvet robes and gathering their priceless
saoies about them with the air OF those accus-
omed toa
H.. LUXURY AND Ep1cuaEASIsM OF LIFE
, J,aro ha+ 1;.eopatra and semi1anis never knew
ui" s IL m;., ,s that sweet young girls Just come
.,Ia,, Iue WIN the soft Englieh bloom upon thei1
ana tae la.nbent light in their owes, that
!las! mast tade and grow dim with tie years
ha. s1a!l o1'ng to them wisdom Of Ife'e fsyerf
mo lts perus,-aqcll lovely girls as one reads Of
n the pages Of old-fashioned novels. and fseis
bearer Heaven to have eeen in rea1 iifo'-ra1t
to and fro, gazing, With frosh cirl's ;rnocant
hnaze, at the masquerade and carnival Of ash;nr
about them. - AAs1'oA
But, during the summer months. thu tovr Inn
another season,-not quite as remuneratiyc t.
hotel and lodging-houee keepers ut this in which
MIDAS and Croesus come, with their families nnr
lordiY servants, to ill the best rooms and house,
to orerhoTlng. and to make the hearts OF thrift,
butchers. bakers, and grocers to sing peans
but brisk season for the cheaper boarding
houses and the less expensive lodgings.
By the middle OF June change Ia Tisihla j,