The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-19
Literary Notes.

he never otherwise expects to see and he Is, or
ought to be. grateful to whatever hand furnishes
them with skillful and happy selection Such
portfolio of new pictures has just been provided
by the Messrs. Scribner, who, however, IN art
lists phrase, have only mounted them Tor ex-
animation. The deft photographers has most
modest and unobtrusive name for the bright col
lection Loiterirags IN Pleasant Paths By
Marion Harland. Charles Scribner's Sons,
743 Broad,oay, NeW York-$l.759 English
people make free to say that cultured feminine
America is indolent. Were ever such lazy
women I've have heard British tourists ex-
claim, as they looked upon American matrons
and maidens sitting with unoccupied fingers.
But such busy worker Mrs. Terhune is a
standing protest against the sweeping charge.
1t is not two years since she again set foot after
a prolonged absence, upon her native shores,
and yet this is the. third volume we have from
her pen during this period the bulky and care
fully prepared Dinner Year Book, which under
takes, land how successfully y to do the daily
thinking for ten or twenty thousand house
keepers to their infinite comfort and relief
What Shall We DO Nth Our Girls !-common-
sensible, racy, spirited talks of mother with
mother, on one of the most important of topics
female education and training and third and
last, this voluminous, four hundred PACED book
of European sketches of travel Verify, Marion
Harland's days must strike twenty-four hours
like the Italian clocks there is no other way of
accounting for the labor crowded into them that
We can seel And then there is here no slovenly
work. These are not the hurriedly- copied jot-
tings of the daily itinerary. They are the care
fully furnished-up a9udrelIes of the home studio.
There was very complete equipment for going
abroad before the series of tours was begun, and
In no case was Mrs. Terhune in the condition of
the traveller who stood beside them at the grave
of The Ddiryman'S Daughter in the church-yard
in the Isle of Wight Pardon" Che said, also
taking off his hat) but will you have the good
ness to tell me what it is we have come here to
see?"
A very amable tourist was Mrs Terhune ex-
cept when she encountered the Average Bfiton,
or the Travelled american then patience and
serenity seemed to fail She tells of the wife of
North of England rector, who on hearing she
was going to Haworth, queried Gas the reason)-
You have friends in Haworth? ?" Mrs Ter
hume mentioned Charlotte Bronte "Ah l did
not know she ever lived there. She was Eng.
lish-did you say?" Mrs. B. asked me if it
was quite safe to promenade Broadway un-
armed-on account of the savages, you know"
Another English lady wished to know if she
came from America by steamer or the overland
route And on one occasion, when the Civil
War was spoken of by member of Parliament
IN conversation with a friend of our tourist he
averred that the North should have let the
South go, when she tried to separate herself from
the Union the hand of the Creator had placed
rocky rampant between them" "A rocky
rampant" Eyes; the Isthmus of Darien.
The familiarity of Americans with early Eng
lish history quite astonishes me-" said one day
an intelligent lady. 1t was suggested that Eng
lish and American history were the same till
hundred years ago. A hundred years!-I
fancied-I was surely under the impression
that America was discovered more than hun
dred years ago." Mrs. Terhune explained
Pardon me-l776l But perhaps you never
thought-or has it occurred to you?-that DOS.
sibly that may have been the reason they called
your National Exposition, The CentenniaL"j
Yet not only did our travellers find incon.
ceivable Ignorance among we'll conditioned peo-
pie in regard to our country, but to their own.
Eight Londoners successfully were questioned
one evening as to which window in Whitehall
Charles First had stepped out to his execution.
a bewidered stare, and car,t say," were the
reJoinders AT last a young student with his
eyes on his book, sitting facing the palace, was
questioned Charles tie First Never heard
Of himl" In Stoke Pogis church yard, the
scene of Gray's Elegy, the travellers inquired of
two intelligent boys, evidently gentlemen's sons.
who were sketching as to the spot where the
poet lay. Gray "'-"A poeti" Il really
carn't say was all the answer We NAV
not even in the most cursory manner indicate
the many delicious excursions made to historic
places familiar to every reader yet here invested
with fresh and personal charm. The rambles
over Carsbrooke Castle-the encounters at Dud-
ley's tomb and that of his Impe Robert
the strayings over Warwick Castle, haunted by
the old hermit, Carl Guy-the saunterings in the
neighborhood of Shakespeare's habitat, and null
titudes Of other spots. To most readers the long.
leisurely months Of archaeological research
among the temples, basilcas, galleries, ruins,
and catacombs Of Rome, will be the most attrac-
tive portion of the travellers tale for the reader
is not served with bits from Baedeker, except in
high fun, and the historical associations that
everywhere suggest themselves, are not the COM
monplace ones we are accustomed to meet with