New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-11
INTERNATIONAL EPISODES.


everv wear. and thousands of Americans, men
and women. 90 TO England. They speak the
Same language. and there must be many inter
national episodes which never get into PRINT.
Mr. Henry James put one o. them there, now
ever. when the comments OF the English critics
On @Daisy Miller" drove him in selt-delence
and out of some patriotic resentment to iiln-
inmate some phases of English manners as well
"a those of the Miller family. We read IN the
LATER sketch of the cordial British frankness of
Lord Lambeth, good fellow, as many lord
is, who told the American ladies who were
stopping at ono of the London hotels that ne
ALWAYS felt $50 sorry for the people who
came to town and had to go to live in such
places, because they got nothing to eat out
flth.n No doubt Mr.. James vas trying to im-
press upon his critics the idea that he was deal
ing with types and that because tho Miller
family had unusual manners, it did not follow
that good manners were unknown IN America
any more than in England. The Duke OF
Green Erin, now, vino appeared by proxy IN
Mr.. James's sketch, was quite OF different
type from Lord Lambeth. The Duke received
unlimited attentions in Eew-York from the
Butterworths, who did everything in their
They gave him dozen parties and balls.
After year or two the Butttrworths went to
England. and the only notice they got from the
Duke OF Grern-E Erin after Mr.. BntterwCrth had
left his card, was that tho Duke stepped mp to
them at the Ascot Races and poked ten-popnd
note into Mr.. Butterworth's hand, saying that
he saw the other day" that Mr.. ButterwOrth
had not forgotten the bet he won from him (the
Duke) in Ncw-York. With this graceful return
for the hospitality he had received, the Duke
disappeared from the horizon OF the Butter
worths. All this while Mr.. james was striving
to show that allthings are pOsslble-that Amer
lean girls could do the things that DAISY Miller
did, and yet he innocent, could do them indeed
because of innocence that British nobleman,
a generous, manly fellow but little dull, could
talk TO ladies' about the "awful rubbish" they
ate; and that n Duke-awful thought might
he a cad.
II would bea rash man who should dare to
assert that these international episodes were
not possible. Here is a Duke of n-Erin
travelling over the country at this moment.
He is "a member OF the Northern Pacific cxcur-
sion. and "a he is in company with number OF
distinguished men he is succeeding in attract
Ing more attention than if he were solitary
nobleman travelling fer his own pleasurc-and
other peoples discomfort. The Earl of Onslow
for we may as well give the name under
which the Duke of Green Erin is traN cling on
this occasion-asked 20 be asked to this excur-
sion. After he had joined it, he made himself
Sd disagreeabe to his own countrymeh that
they complained of him, and his car-Ior he
insisted upon having n whole car for himself
aud his party-was made the last passenger car
in the train. Even here the noble Earl man
aged to be disagreeable. The baggage car WAS
beyond his, but he refused to allow anybody to
go through hs car to get to it, and 10 access to
the baggage is to be had only when the train
stops. These and other things have made him
unpopular among the guests; and as for the
company, its amlablp yielding to the noble
Earls request for an invitation will involve it
in an expense, for his car, his family and his
servants, of about $4,000. Ii is not easy to
understand why he should be a person of SO
much more expensive tastes than other men
and noblemen. But q glance at Burke or
Lodge shows why. There have been Eails of
Onslow for eighty-twO years. When young
man can trace his proud title hack through
three whole geuerations,-ior he Is the fourth
Earl,-no wonder he feels that it will take
whole car to hold him. His has not been the
only international episode of this kind, il report
be- true. There have been rumOrs OF enormous
wine bills run up by some of Uncle Rufus
Hatch's imported noblemen, and even that one
Of his foreign guests bought undercOthing liz
Chicago and charged it 10 him. These reports,
Uncle Rdfus has mildly SAID, are much exag
gerated.
n,,sa l. 4. y
the wateri Alas, yes Here is an English
paper. VANITY Far, printing a letter to the
Editor, which cries out against the "autumnal
plague of wandering Yankees" "The nasal
twaug is heard in all our streets, and the keen,
vulpine face stares from every hotel window"
Az race athey are simply unendurable"-