New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
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II HIS BITS or 1hA VEIL
mrs M TRAVEL. AT HOME. BY a. r. 4zmo. pi'
AIS. Roberts BROTHERS. -
The descriptions Of American scenery Ia ' 1
xoIume indicate the imagination OF Poet' the oyo
- a., .oute ohseryer Of Nature the hand Of an ar
sist and tbe heart Of A woman. II. H's choice OF
words IA AZ itself study Of color. Her picturesque
dicion rivals the skill Of the painter, and presents
The woods and waters of the Great West with .
splendor of illustration that can scarcely be sur
passed By the brightest glow of the canvas -heF
munitions of character no less keen than her pe
Ceptions of Nature Every strange, odd ont-oi-tne-
,vav specimen of humanity furnishes materials for
her pen that give life and significance to her express
pive shetohes Her sense of humor is always ac-
tive, no comic feature escapes her notice, though
sbe never seeks 90 raise q laugh by grotesque
images, OF the abuse Of good English. The air OF
refinement that pervades her pictures does not I'M
pair their humorous effect, which Is founded on
character. not on caricature. Her sturdy sense Is
no less remarkable than her quaint tancies'
curiously blending the granite of New-Engand with
the luxnriant Wild flowers Of the prairies aud the
mountains.
The Journey Of II. II. from Chicago to Ogden,
ON the Pacific Railroad was succession OF SURPRISES
in its revelations Of landscape. The very rst day'
by hundreds Of miles the rich praiTle lands had UNI
rolled themselves, smiled and fed. On the very
edges Of the erumbling, dusty banks OF our track
Stood mink and blue and yellow flowers, undis-
turbed The homesteads in the distances looked like
shining green forresses for nearly every house has
tree wall on two sides of it. The trees looked like
poplars, bat we could not be sure Often we saw
only the solid green square, the house being entirely
concealed from view. As we drew near the Missis-
stppi River soft, low hills came into view ON each
side tangled skens of little rivers shaded by tan
trees. wound and unwOund themselves side by SIDE
with rs. big bridge lay ready, on which we
crossed everybody standing on the platform OF the
cars, ct their own risk, according to the explicit
prohibitiOn of the railroad company. Burlington
looked WE'LL high up on red bluffs fine large houses
ON the heights and pleasant little ones in the sub
urbs. with patches of vineyard in the gardens"
Soon the ascent Of the mountains brings them to the
height of nearly ten thousand feet above the sea.
"Up, up, upi We are creeping, although we are
mounting BY steam. Snow lies ON every side; and
olumps of frs and pines, and rocks OF fantastic
shapes are the only things which break this desc
late loneliness. We are so much above the tops OF
many mountains that they themselves blend and
become wide fields over which we look to the far
horizon, where rse still higher peaks, white with
snow. We see of In all directions as we did on the
pla1ns yet clouds are below us, rolling and rising
and changing like meadOw-nistsl Still, we climb.
The trees are stunted and bent, the rocks are dark
ndternbe many Of them look like grotesque idols,
standing erect OF topping over Wyoming has well
named this region The Black Hills" As they hp-
proach the level on the other side, the
bits of exquisite description are like the
clusters of wild strawberries in grassy
meadow. For example: "Here are wide plains,
Sroves of cattle, little runs of water,
and flowers on every side The sun was setting in
a broad belt of warm, yellow sky; snow lay in the
ereyces Of the lower hills, and covered the distant
rangesl Winter and Spring seemed to have We'd
The humble sage-bush even acquires a glory be-
meath the touch of poetic hand; "On the morn
ing of the fourth day we looked out upon desert
Of sage-bush and sand but the desert had infinite
beauties of shape and the sage had pathos OF color
Why has the sage-bush been 80 despsed, 80 held up
TO the scorn Of men It is simply aminiature olive
tree. In tint in shape the resemblance is wonder
full Travellers never tire of recording the sad and
subtle beauty of Mediterranean slopes with the
soft, tlnek, rounded tops Of olive orchards. The
stretches of these sage-grOWn plains have the same
tints the same roundings and blendings Of soft,
thick foliage; the low sand-hlls have endless va
Fiety Of outline, and all strangely suggestive.
There are fortresses, palisades, roof slopes with
dormer windows hollows like cradles, and here and
there vivid green In these GASES cattle Craze
Sometimes an Indian stands guarding them'
his scarlet legs cleaning through the sage,
Is motIonless as the cattle be watches"
Changing the scene to Colorado, Fl. H. finds full
scope for enthusiasm in the admiration of that won
aerful Nature, and in the frankness and sympathy
which marked the character of the people. only
from Saturday to Saturday. and suppose the days
eould not have been more than twenty-fOuT hours
long; but what week IL wasi Ten hours day
out under Colorado sky; ten hours day Of Colo
RADIO mountain air ten hours day Of ever-chang-
ing delight; beauty deepening TO grandeur grandeur
softening to beauty, and beauty and grandeur
together blending in pictures which no pencil, no
pen can render-pictUres born only to be stamped
upon hearts, never TO be transferred to canvas OF to
page.1 Here is her photograph in miniature Of the
friendly gTegarious population which is doubtless
TO be taken with many grains of allowance for ex-
eeptional localities:
We set ont At noon from Colorado SPRING. Thirtyhve
miles chiefly uphill miles, were 70 20 driven poioIe
PILL Inc az h street, OF die tte town hearty
ROodbyesS and good times 20 yOn came from IfiehQ
az ieast aseSs tbe charms Of the simple LIE IN this
new West is the Out-spOken interest and sympathy
ssST man oea or Is going to DO becomes an offence or
pleasure according 20 the measures Of
people have erystazed nt9 strong iDdheregeee 70
saSh Others a Tsr ef IN the primitive con-
itOns Of young colonies this Sc impossible Hepuhess
Sssds and the cioselylinksd common lie. The hearty,
cOndng, questioning garrelous speech OF the Nesers
fbs Kindly sympathy. II sounds odd and unpleasant
enough doubt to Eastern ears and tieo ~ the Eas-
ern STANDARDS Of good manners Dut, fehecung on ~
one comes do il tardy justice ana meet IT on its own
ground fairly and with honest liking. AL THIS thought
as driving Ont OF Colorado springs that SATURDAY NOUN
we passed many persons who although they Knew only
one Of our party, were evidently well aware that We
were setting out the mountains, waved their hands
and smiled and called out " Goodbye, goodbye a
good trip 10 yOu" Who shall that the influence OF
ch heerg beuedetiona from friendly hearts does not
iast Far beyond Ge moment IN Inch they are spoken
d0ea not enter into ones good luck, By some moral
cbemisfry subtleF than any for which the material
eience can find analysis or formula The world would
he none the worse believing this, % any rate ana We
boi an - frieuder snd reader and freef IN greet