New-York tribune., 1877-09-15
PERSONAL JOURNALISM.



IFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRiBuNEl
IoNDoS. Aug 25.-A Boulevard weekly asserts
that with one exception, there Is hardly an Amer
lean paper which does not praise Messrs' farneii
ODonnen Bggar, and the rest OF the oostructiou-
lists IN the English Parliament. Is that true' oI
rather is there any important American Jonrhal
which prases those misohieyous and foolish persons
And if there be- is it, the Boulevard weekly says
because of hatred TO England and English lis''u-
tons 1t is to be remarked that the number OF Ros-
sipinR paragraphs in English papers about Amelioa
and Americans, about many other lopes' mas
much increased of late. might add, truly enough,
that the tone of many of them is anything ou'
friendly; still, never should think of drawing the
inference that hatred to the United States was
feeling generally difiused among Engshmen Al
lowance must be made for the great dlihculty-aI
tins season--of filing eight or ten broad columns
with readable gossip. Many are the devices Dy
which space is filled. Old Joe Miers ola ahecuo'o'
from books Of Ana, the latest inventions OF the in
yentive papers of Paris, stray Jokes Oh Aitonu'
Ward and Mark Twain, scandal IN Mgh anu ~"
life, even the dongs OF nunkles, PeTsohai uosoiiP
tions of oonyicts and inforneTs lampoons the earn
ings and doings of actresses, ana inc COMPANY ."'
keep (or which keeps theml. and fifty other things
neither more nor less important, go to the making
up of the weekly budget.
IL appears from the same journal that hoSs j. VI
opjnion that American actors are, as RUE oos'ci
than Iaglish actors and that III particular DOOM Is
the superior Of any living English performer lo
repeat this simply would, however, Ill sult the Pui-
pose of the narrator, 50 IL is dressed up WIN oo
Al Ross.s failure III London, and Joke at lho l'"
iap's pronouncing the Amercafs rame boo''
Then comes still more tasteful piece of wit: wv heh
heard this for the twentieth time hau moro 'n""
half mind totell the fellow that had two 'boo1S'
1lx
tbem need not exactly say where! KosslS Ldh
ure In attract the London public is oileh quo'ou
AGAINST him As if such verdict were final. I@ihen
herring his success PARIS, where the DoS' "1''"s
in the world aud the best criticism OF acts S Wv
found the verdict might seem TO he more u"'i"h's
10 London than TO Ross But that Is no reaSo" WHY
MIR Booth should not come here aud act ii II u ""0
that Mr. Irving IS going to America, AI. DOOM -.
nortsd wish not TO interfere with sir. lryings hoid
on the town need no longer prevent MN Aio"i s' Is
us the opportunity of making comparison 9ir
I.i,,,s LOST nublic appsarRnce in London was IN
the Police Court, as a privileged spectator al inc
hearing before Sir James Ingham OF the charges
against the police detectives
Why il that most men who SIT down TO Wrlte
about CARLYLE seem compelled TO produce an inl'a-
ton of hls style The imitation is feeble enough no
donht ike Croft's of Dr. JOhnson's, possessing all
the contortions of the sibyi, without the ihSpha-
ton" There is a good doal of II III noiice "hch
snnears this week and good deal else which Is an
imitation of no known style. Does II add 10 Soh
knowledge of Carlyle to De told that he is North
R,it;s Biareps with a fog-horn in his every hand,
apd q humoristic RhadamanthuS This may be
wayne but does not seom to be particularly ABUSIVE
For aI,se turn TO the review, IN the same paper,
of Nh Frceman's Ottoman Power ln Europe some
of us have been in the habit of thinking Mr. free-
mans place 10 be in the front rank OF modern hs'o-
rians. The Tory reviewer to whom Mr.. freemans
opinions about the Turk unPeasing describes MN
as not long ago, harmless aud industrious pehhah'
a kind Of historical Mir Barlow. Bat since then
the historian has waXed fat and has taken 20 keA-
ing and that too in style winch only has ITS phys
zeal analogue az Bolton or Oldham in PLAIN words,
MIR Freeman is no better than Lancashire rough
who kicks his wife 10 death with hOb-naed boots.
After tins il Is mere anti-cmaX 10 talk OF MS sour
robustness intensified shIcwlshneSs and Yirulence.
have asked before now why il is that there Is 80
uch more bitterncssand violence on the part Of Tory
wr.ters toward Liberal opponents than on the part
az llbetl winters toward Tory opponents. Is II be
cause mos, OF the ADLER Journalists are Liberal ana
taat so large proportion of Tory journalists nave
no better rhetorical weapon in their slenderly fur
nished arnories than abuse I They must have
heard before now that violence is an indication OF
intellectual poverty and that man in passion sell
dom says a good thing.
Thepayer from which take these elegant extracts
L0ssoa Is the one winch came out early tins year
with SO excellent tiIst number and then III the
next two OF three fell 10 the level Of dull medOcrIy
which il has since maintamed-Cr maintained III
such numbers as j have CHANGED to see. III ceased
almost immediately ~ be one of those papers winch
one must see There are at least two Others when
write IN something of the spirit on American
matters The World is Ii Is not yehemently
abusive but only good-naturedly contemptuous. 30
is MIR. Laboucheres truth. Either of them is ready
enough TO print a story for the storys sake. IL II
bappens To be injurious il must still be printed III
is NOT malice, only wantOnness; and We need moi
conplain particularly, for Are served no worse
than others Mr. LaDOucheIe has made a specially
of disaqeeabe anecdotes relating TO Gen. Grants
visit or TO Gen. Grants private affairs. Not long
SINCE ms readers were grayelv informed that Gen.
Grants private fortune, accumulated, think, since
his election 10 the Presidency amounted to 9lOO0O
OOO
Some of his work indeed is only Illustrative Of the
extent 10 which the passion for personalities Is
now carried personalities whicn often take the
shape of personal quarIels between journalists, i'll
which the public can hardly be supposed to take
much interest. Mr.. LabOucheTe is foremost III this
sort of squabbling though it is only fair to nm to
say that he did not begin all the quarres he is AT
present engaged in. Mr.. Lucy, III Mayfair, accused
him of plagiarism Nh LabOucherc retorted that Mr..
Iucy was of short stature and had curly hair. This
Mir. Lucy pronounced undgniied, forgetting per
hans how famous he made Mr. Charles Lewis's white
Ualstcoat last session. and that the spciness of his
Parliamentary articles largely due to minute
narticulauzation OF the features. waIdrODes and
,,a,,,,,s of the individuals who were mentioned in