St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-11-11

dive into any money he can get at is
step he is bound to take after more or
or less hesitation.
In lamenting my frequent duty to
say few words in the role of an obit-
uant, wholly omitted one of the peers
of the realm of letters whom it would
be objectionable to neglect mention
Of | refer to DR.. Holland, of the Cen
fury, formerly Scribner's Magazine,
which, by the way, with its wider mar
gins and extra matter, is improving
with each issue. A certain school of
critics affected to sneer at his work,
but if his style or the subjects of his
pen were not like Charles Levers, for
instance, or saturated with gall, like
the smart essays of the Saturday Re-
viler," and its imitation here and
abroad, they were popular and
their influence was good. The sales
of all his productions were phenOme-
nally large, and some seem destined
to be favOrites for centuries to come.
He was a good man, and the path of
life he trod was every whit as repre-
sentative of the persistence, gentleness
and brains of purest American man
hood as the lamented Garfield himself,
for he sprang from small beginnings,
and was on the top of the ladder he
had started to mount rs boy when he
was gathered to the fold of the blessed
elsewhere.
Election da, will soon be here, and
the candidates will, no doubt, be hear
tily glad of it. This personal canvass
ing must be terribly fatiguing, and
Int I.,fn -,
of the new politicians have to do. For
instance, Mr.. Aston, in Gotham, and
Mr.. Seth Low, in Brooklyn, hereditary
milliOnaires, both of them with refined
tastes and ordinary surroundings, are
now daily tramping miles and miles
through mud and rain in the least sa-
worry parts of their bailiwicks, and hob
nObbing with greasy crowds of thirsty
citizens at every low gin-mill they
come across. This seems to be the or
thodox way of propitiating the rabble,
but Pm afraid it hurts mans chances
with more respectable people. I'd like
to see some wealthy man come out on
the Julius Caesar plan, give the vulgar
pdnen ct circenseS, and keep smelling
bottle between him and them other
wise. | don't believe it would cost
more either.
The Canadian yacht "Atlantan has
arrived on its American cup-hunting
expedition. don't think she stands
much chance. She is in no special
way different in model from the type
of slOops familiar to us, and which,
though perhaps the type admits of criti-
cism, we have brought to something
very like perfection. However we shall
see. Yachting in large or small boats
is extending so widely all over this
land that Pm sure my notes thereon
will be of interest.
ROssi, the much trumpeted Italian
actor, has displayed himself in several
of his principal parts, and does not
seem to have evoked the anticipated
enthusiasm. In fact, most of the crit
les have given him practical dose OF
Shakespeare by dining him with
faint praise. | think he is good Ital-
ian actor, but Italians and English
speaking people do not express them
selves in the same way. A British, Ol
Yankee, or Teuton Romeo doesn't
shrug his shoulders, or wiring his hands
till he cracks the sOles of his boots, or
roll his eyes, or lollop his head about
like a dying duck i'll a thunderstorm
whereas in an Italian lover these evil
dences of passion are the propah capah
We can all appreciate Il quiet squeeze
in corner or a kiss behind door, but
the idea of turning ones self metaphor
ically inside out, is, so to speak, rather
quite too awfully sick. We've had i
good deal of foreign talent Of late, and
Judging from the recent account Oi
Sarah Bernhardt's trip, it don't seen
tO''pan out" quite so satisfactory as OF
old to the theatrical carpet Dagger,
from abroad. We have some good ac-
tors of our own nowadays.
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