New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-28
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

a. .l; ,,;o,s iourpal of which Dr. Field is editor.
IT., have met with signal favor from the portion
of the public for which they especially designed
and are now collected in more permanent form as
mart of a work devoted to the record or journey
around the world. The numerous readers Oh INC
Evangelist will welcome them as renewing tne
pleasure they have enjoyed IN their former pefusa'
while those who now make their acquaintance Iot
the first time will find in them a singuarly interest
ing narrative of intelligent observation and personal
experience. DIR. Field started from New-1ork
Tor LIVERPOOL in May, 1875, in one OF
the admirable steamships of the lnman hne.
His description of the voyage, though on
20 hackneyed o theme, has a touch OF the
breozv freshness which is one of the few compensa-
tons of life at sea. He was equally fortunate IN
the selection Of a magnificent ship and q skllltul
commander. "The order and discipline OF tho ship
is perfect. There is 10 noise or confusion. All
moves on quietly. Not a sound is heard, save the
occasional CRY of the men stretching the SAILS, and
the steady throb day and night, of the engine
which keeps this huge mass moving on her ocean
track. But what vast machine is such a SNIP anu
how complicated the construction which makes pos
eible such triumph over the sea. Come up on the
,pper deck and look down through TINS IRON graf
ing You can sec 20 depth OF fifty or SIXTY feet.
N IL like looking down into y miners shaft. And
of The ship is a mass of fire. Thirty-sx furnaces
ara In fun blast to heat the steam, and at night, as
the rcdhot Goals that are raked out of the furnaces
like melted lava flash in the faces of the bTawny
and sweltering men, one might fancy himself look
ing into some Vulcans cave or subteuanean region
glowing with an internal heat Thus one OF these
great ocean steamships is literally sea monster
that feeds on fire aud descending into lts Do"es is
o noe the energetic language of Scripture III speak
;nr nj Jonah in the whalc like going down into the
belly of hell"
Upon arriving in Paris, which he had not visited
foruearly ten years. Dr. Field was impressed with
the signs of rapid recovery from the effects OF the
recent war. The streets were fun OF HE ana
eaycty Everything bore the marks OF prosperous
activity. The enormous Prussian indemnity had
been paid without great financial distress Dr
Field finds the explanation of this in the character
and habits of the people "The French are very
rich people-nOt by the accumulation of few eoos-
sal fortunes. but by the almost infinite number OF
small ones They are at once the most industrious
and the most economical people in the world. They
will live ON almost nothing. Even the Chinese
hardly keep soul and body together on less than
these French curriers' whom we see going about IN
their blouses and who form the labOring population
of Paris So all the petty farmers in the provinces
save something, and have little against rainy
day and when the time comes that the Govern
,nopt wants loan out from old stockings, and from
chimney corners, come the boarded napoieons
which, flowing together like thousands OF little nv
ulets make the mighty stream of national wealth"
Nor does the author join III the frequent claIn0r
with regard TO the immortality of Paris. 1t IS gen
orally supposed, he remarks 10 be sinner above all
other Cities and some innocent young preachers who
have never crossed the sea feel justified in denounc
= ii, -, fl,o rorlA Hnf IN
point of intemperance according to Dr. Field, it is
not half so bad as London, or Glasgow or Edin-
burgh. and as TO other forms of vice, Judging from
their public display, 1t has nothing to compare with
the scenes which shock every foreigner in the streets
Of London The general cheerfulness OF the Partisan
people is a surprise to the stranger. You see
no such extremes of condition in London. no such
painful contrasts between the rich and the poor
EVERYBODY seems comfortable and contcnted, az
least in a small way. No people get so much ont OF
50 little, What an English workman spends III a
single drunken debauch, a frenchman will spread
over week and draw a little enjoyment out of 1t
every day. Everybody seems TO be happy in bis
own way, without envying his neighbor " II a
man cannot ride with two horses, he viii go Win
one and even if that one be n sorry back with ribs
sticking out of his sides and that seems Just ready
for the crows, no matter he will pile his wife and
60. not AT great speed to be sure, but rs gay and
merry as If they were the Emperor and his conrt
with outliders going before and body of cavalry
clattering at their heels When have seen whole
family at Versailles or st. Cloud dining on five
francs toh no that is too magnificent; they carry
their dinner with them, and it probably does not
cost them two francs l admire the simple tastes
which are so easily satisfied, and the miracleworS
ing art which extracts honey from every daisy by
the P0adsidc.H
IJpon his visit to Florence in the month of Sep
te.nber DIR. Field offers pertinent remarks on
he Italian climate, and the best time OF the year
for seeing Italy Many tourists take the Winter for
their visit Rome especially is not thought safe TIL
late in Autumn. But DIR. Field strongly recon-
mepds an earlier season, aud American travellers
would do well to follow his advice. Italy is seen to
the best advantage in its Summer bloom or in the
ripeness of Autumn. Daring his visit TO Florence
the vineyards were in all the ponp Of harvest, pre-
ecutng the most picturesque OF Italian scenes The
slopes of the Apcnnnes were dotted with dark for
esis and soft hay atmosphere, like that of our
Indian summer, gave kind of purple tint to the
landscape Still the celebrated Italian skies were
not more fair than those which bend over many a
familiar spot in America. The vegetation was not
richer nor the landscape more lovely, than in the
Berkshire valleys. Among the objects of interest
in Florence the Protestant cemetery is sure to at
tract the attention of English ard American travel
ers. OF this spot, we have a brief description as
follows;
In the English buryinggTouHd many Of that country
sleep far from tuer native island. some, Ike Walter
Savage Lander and Mrs. Browning, hPd made Florence
their home FOR wears Ialy their adopted country,
aud u az that they sleep IN its sunny cline, beneal9
southern sky So OF our conntryman Powers Eho was a
resident Of Florence for thrtY-Ye years, and whose
widow sil lives here the very pretty villa which he
but with her Sons and daughter married ana settled
arouad her. beautiful domestic group Ia The cemetery
H. ~ LtIl.. IN oil