Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-04-21
TFron Oar Regular CoTrespozdeni-l
Oar European Letter.
LONDON, Eng. April I, 1850.

Oar European Letter.
LONDON, Eng. April Z, 1880.
II there Is ANYTHING necessary to prove
that the ladies' interests are not in the
ascendency vet. whatever may be adj
vanced by the advocates Of woman's
rights to the contrary. it is supplied in
the flct that our newspapers are now full
Of nothing but election matters. As a
rzle, ladies care little or nothing about
elections. and i: is really quite surprising
what little trouble the press takes to please
them. hear them complaining on all
sides that the newspapers have nothing in
them-meaning nothing worth their at
,en,ion-and there is really something to
be said on their side Of the question.
Every oue-and especially every editor
is supposed to know his own business
best, bu, We. l am Of opinion that the
editors of our London newspapers, at
least. are rather overriding the platform
business don't object to the yards upon
wards Of election addresses in the adver-
tisement columns because l never read
them), but l could do very well with half
dozen candidates speeches, instead OF
half = hundred. Divorce cases, instead OF
being treated ia ezteHS0, are now announc-
ed with the brevity of railway stock.
Accidents apparently do not occur. The
American Joke column has been bodily
Gu; cut from all the weekles. As for
letters Of general interest, they have no
more chance of appearing in print than If
they were accounts of the gigantic goose
berry. which always appears Generally in
Kent. l have noticeD, in the middle Of
the autumn vacation.
The news of the great victory OF the
liberals has ere this reached your readers.
The triumph belongs to Mr.. Gladstone.
The first impression one gets Of his style
is Disappointing. It looks fatiguing. Il
does not invite. nor does it readily lead,
the reader along even when he has yielded
to the impulse and felt the fascination of a
strong mind. But at last it lays hold of
the attention. You are caught in its
sweep and made to feel that you are in
the hands Of . master who knows his
subject and who will not let YOU 90 till
be has brou b, you to some share of his
own knowledge You may feel not I'M
frequently that lie is far more subtle than
true. more ingenious in theory than pene-
tra,ing in Insight. more intent on making
ont = case than in going to the root of a
difficulty, that he IS conventional rather
than critical. and traditional where be
ought to be historical; still, there is the
glow Of an intense genius everywhere, and
the >plenIor Of rhetoric which often
rises into passion and never degenerates
into mcarneSs. Ii We are to estimate
writing no: merely by the momentary
pleasure it gives. hut by the elevation and
moral. rs well as mental. stimulus it i'm
parts. we must attach n high value &c
many Of Mr.. Glalstone's essays. Ii
would be difficult to say how f.r they may
survive rs monuments Of his literary gen
ius. They are more likely to do so,
bolicye. than his Homcric spcculations
Ilabors Of love anl special knowledge a:
these are. Bat whatever may be theil
fate. they are remaI hable and marvelously
Interesting as produces of literary devotion
and ambition in mind of intense activity
amids. the psuses of great public career.
Whenever You hear an American say
THAT he likes Paris better than he doe:
London, you may make up your mind Il
.his-tha: he knows As much Of Paris 4;
an American tourist ever can, and he
simply knows nothing Of London. Ge'
behind some Of those gloomy house
fronts, which seem so dreary, seen from
the outside. Become member OF somt
of the palatia! clubs, where YOU arr
thrown daily in contact with men Of birth
breeding. polish. education, refinement
even genius, sometimes, Enter the inne
arcana of London life, all the more de
ligh.iul because difficult to penetrate. B
man and man with man, speaking you
own language, with whom You have
common literature, a unity OF views re
specting morality, religion, and all tn
vital issues which 20 to make up life. an
then tell me if YOU prefer Paris to London
ALPHA.