The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-01-22
A Grand Dukes Book on America.

Inc OU. feIerSDurB correspondent Oh
the Baltic Gazette has seen advance.
sheets Of the first volume of the Grand
duke Alexis account of his voyage
round the world. This first volume is
exclusively devoted to description of
the grand-duke's adventures in the Uni
ted States. The aforementioned cor
respondent writes as follows about it
"This is certainly very curious
work. To Judge from what / have
read of it-whether his imperial high
ness wrote it himself, or whether an
ADLER pen did it for him-the book is
intensely interesting. The grand.duke
says that his reception in New York al
most stupetied Tim. Up to the last
moment he had not thought that SO
brilliant an ovation would be tenderod
in republican America to the son of n
monarch. He was very weak when he
landed in New York, and during his
progress up Broadway frequently felt
ike 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, in his opinion, is
tho finest thoroughfare in the world,
because everything there, houses, shops
and the reoDlo look not monotonous,
but gay lively and bright. What
amused lin perhaps, more than any
thing Isr, was that the bands, upon
catching SIGHT f him, struck up, not
the regular Russian anthem, but the
so.called "Dueo CT st. Catherine"
which is playei IL Eussih only at the
funerals of membl # tic imperial
family The cheers 81 therccrlu wer'
more deafening than any lie In he"lG
in Europe; from which G pl 'y'ully
concludes that lung diseases canact be
very prevalent in the new wo,Ii. A.
to the soldiers, the variety OF unitcrn,
struck him as extremely odd. He say
he saw, peacefully, side by side, helm
eted Prussans and kepied Frenchmen,
relocated Englishmen and Irish troops
bearing the banner of the Green isle.
"The grand-duke cannot praise too
highly American hotels. American |
fare, he thinks, however, is too rich.
'There is at their tables, he exclaims,
naiUely, always too much of good
thing. / asked for the peculiar dishes
of America, and at the hotel they could
not give me any. Their cooks were
italian and French. The landlord
shrugged his shoulders when / asked
him about it. Out west, however, my
desire was at once gratified. | dined
one day ON baked pork -and-beans, a
very paIatabe dish, which would GER
tainly bear transplanting to Russia.
"American manners, the grand-duke
thinks, are little awkward and angu-
ar, but decidedly pleasant on account
Df everybody's frankness. He tells a
periences with the aborigines. In
Washington he was told that the Irish
at the residence of M.
Catacazy were dying to see him. He
put on cap and an old traveling-coat,
md went unheralded down into the
kitchen among thom. He was not re-
,ognized by the Biddies, and chatted
with them half IN hour. He found uut
that not one of them had an idea of
where Russia was situated, and one of
the girls even asked him if the czar al
ways wore crown on his head, adding
that she knew the queen of England |
always did. Equally amusing is the
account of his reception Mt Omaha, in
where a member of the legis-
ature congratulated him on the sue
,asses of his father in the war with
France Another legislator of that
,tate wanted to know if it was always
cold in Russia
"These funny episodes in the west,
,oWpypr were nmply mnde uD for by
he extreme kindness and consideration
with which the army officers there
5reated the grand-duke. For Gen. Gus
5er and his subordinate officers the
grand duke has words of the warmest
gratitude. Gen. Clusters photograph
IS published in the volume, which is
most sumptuously printed and profuse-
" illustrated. Only q few hundred
copies of the book will be issued"