New-York tribune., 1874-04-11
BOSTON.
LITERARY NOTES.


Avn rvrRywHERE SEEN THROUGH FEMiNISE
spKcrAcLEs-GII.MANs FIRST STEPS IN GENERAL
usroRYn-" AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES
rrpo. A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rhiboNhi
RosroN, April 9.-Perhaps the next oest
&hing 70 gong 10 Europe in Cunaro steamer 's :" ko
there in a book and this opportunity Lee onep"ru arc
about to afford us They have nearly ready lor puonc~
t,on "Beeten Paths; or. Woman's VACATION, by Ella
W Thompson Mrs. Thompson mas nothng prucu
,.,v new to tell us for she the paths OF Euro
nean travel are beaten paths but she sees the old
.oenes with fresh eyes, and writes about them In
,ouant and pleasant manner. The untraveled reader
narrower can hardly pcrusa too many DOCKS
sf this sort; for, II he Is never going
.hroad he wants 10 know all he can
sf the far fair foreign lands while sitting under his owl
maple tree and II he is time TO make his personal
pilgrimage well TO know beforehand at what shrines
60 bow We see, in most landscapes, just what we put
into them and who heard OF Sir Walter scott
would all the charm OF Abbotsord; as Chilion is
nothing but an old dungeon him who has never read
his Byron. Mrs Thompson seems 10 nave MT upon Just
the most charming things TO and she carried 10
tbem wealth OF legend and romance and history whlch
Enabled her 10 hll every storied scene with It's own
appropriate ghosts. OF course she "did" Scotland :
and she thinks that Bostonian who evolved rom
h,s inner consciousness the that Edinburgh resem
bles Boston, OF the most exalted patriotism, ana de-
nerves statue in the state House yard Our traveller
found that Mary Queen Of Scots must have been but
peorly lodged at Holyrood but kind of lodging was
rood enough Tor herf take her at Mrs. Thompsons
ss,imate-for after quoting old prayer, which was
On the wall OF Mary's room that everything might
he "to the Honor and Praise OF God she gives IL as
her opinion that had moro need OF this prayer
than that beautiful sinner; since. surely "never was
woman from whom so much proceeded that was not 10
the Honor and Praise OF Cod"
OF kissing Mrs. Thompson writes as one VINO KNOWS
Che says of the portraits OF two fairhared girls py
ureuze in gallery Edinburgh. that they are In
tenaely kissable, like all faces OF his palhNns' III
Tecty after, she adds:
In picture Of Francesca da Rlmini and her lover
reading the book which tempted @ tSI h fdp 1mpay Is S TSe
ieaous husband creeping into the background is
bemish suggesting sin, when in the picture ana In the
story there far as 1t goes nothing but innocence
Abbotsford is now in the possession Of Mary Monica
HopeScott greagranddaughter OF Sir Walter through
that daughter Sophia who married LocEhart And TINS
a. the end Of that Scott family which Sir waiter
hoped with such yearning desire. 10 found-a family
that should "cock up H beaver" at Abbotsford for-
ever and ever. in memory OF him. Miss HopeScott
must he more Hope than Scott since she wishes TO shut
mp the place. and keep it wholly to herself sne Is put
IN unwilling custodian Of this shrine for Pilgrims ana
goes away disgust TO Edinburgh Whenever the travel
lnR season begins.
4 ought 10 have said, IN the first place, that Mrs
Ibonpson's party party of women comprising
The mystical number OF seven and her book is ded-
Gated to the other Inc Iar Irlenus seem W
Travelled with the greatest and pleasure. and very
seldom 70 have felt any need OF masculine assistance
Bcmetimes man would have been a convenience to
fetch a cab sudden shower resent financial mpo-
stion but usually they quito able to take care OF
themselves one wrong waits for redress, however.
The gentle voyageur describes 1t thus;
We ate very small lunch for very large price the
ROsvn Hotel and were then told by vampire, who
had been permitted 10 take the shape OF a man and
brother that the railway station was lust round the
NftuT no gnF FTIRF u q.
after had turned it, tbe station fled before us as we
devOured the way for at least two miles more.
We missed train Of course, and nothing hut utter
exhaustion prevented our instant return TO the hotel,
and the putting to death OF that unworthy Scotsman
without benefit clergy We cherish the hope that
may time meet him in Boston. when we VIII
square swear 10 that Niagara Falls just round
that he will never find his way out In this liie
Ourtrayelers visited Scotland before going London
and were tempted their way thther from Edinburgh
by the beauty separate little village, to stop
and make study of it, But they resisted heroically,
making halfway place Of York for the sake of its ca
thedral, which Mrs. Thompson calls "an epic poem in
stone too cold and perfect for love but filing the
ure Of adrniratonro the brm." They reached London
before the season was over and there in Roton Row.
they saw the beauty and the chivalry of England or
course being they took note OF the apparel OF
their English cousins, and regarding Mrs. Thompson
thus discOurses:
Light silks and rich laces and what would be called
noon drive; yet thoroughly we-dressed woman in
the Park Is the phoenix amoug birds, for We
everything Of last years fashion material rich
and costly enough itself but the effect as If not one
EnglshwOman in "a hundred had ever seen herself from
ETideptly taste ana stvle which mold a costume
however varied. harmonious whole are not TO be
bought for English money. In such matters pounds,
his visit TO England wondered and ewsad over this
lamentaoe English blindness TO the fitness of things In
dress One lady assured him that oil her dresses came
direct from Paris, and his dreadful comment was that
she must have selected them herself
The women OF the middle and lower classes, whom
one meets in shops and picture galleries, many
walking hatracks which different articles OF dress
loosely hung without any relation to each other
The fair-haired. broad-chested Englishman Is much
handsomer than the same type appearing in women
comes coarse and repuisiye IN woman
The Princess Of Wales was the bestdressed
they the Row but she looked liked trained
every and muscle 10 bear the of strangers
and TO emile and smile, whether her heart were light
heavy" She has faded sadly this pretty Princess
she came England first
Bi.sful bride Of a bliS,u beir"
Our wandering fair gained admission to
the Ladies' Gallery" in the House OF Commons and
heard Dsraeh harangue, in thick voice. and with
measured periods" ard Mr. Gladstone reply TO him,
with a swift clear utterance that seemed music, after
the other OF course they visited the Tower and West
minister Abbey. aud ST. Paus and the "Zoo," and the
Galleries and everything else that Christian American
On London ought TO; and they criticised the pronun-
citation Of the English good luck to them, just boldly
rs the English traveller up his uncomfortable nose
at ours
At last they got themselves the German Sea TO
Antwerp. and feas;ed their on pictures. In Ant
werp they first came that curious fashion Of fast
ening glasses outside OF every window so that
the lady sitting within the street panorama with
ont any trouble but that OF raising her eyes Brussels
they found altogether delightful One collection of