New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-23

a FREycuMANs IMPRESSIONS OF THE ENG
LISH PEOPLE.

very amusing book has Just peen pup
6shed here by NJ Calmann-Levy. Internal evil
Aenees show il to have been written py q
r.snsb teacher in some English high school or col
S.re The author takes a pseudonym which only
native of France or Belgium would assume Max
ORellr ought to be cousin german to Flor
fysonarr.n or TO Lord One" The subjects which
he treats are "John Bull ct Son Ile Meurs An
clauses Contemporaries" Although he signs him.
salt in the preface " a friend and an admirer ana
really shows friendly spirit there are many things
in his book which would make the Engiish very
irate If they were thn-skinned people. In study
ing ..John Bull and his Island" MAX OXEN mas
the jmpressionable eye of stranger, to whom Eng
land and the English are The retina OF an Ut
ter foreigner is affected in the same manner as 'a'
of child. Objects are pictured on 1t with stIons
distinctness. which sometimes imparts ~ 'n'ni
a grotesque air. Prominent traits take an o'ei-
bold relief Everything. as the Italians wou'a say
becomes caricata Black is very black and white is
very white. o,,.v,
perbars II is for this cause that Max ORell
sdonts the opinion Tame on. the want OF
;yste pileu IN England and the English. He can
find no Purgatory. There is on one side Heaven
the abode of either very good and great-soued, OF
very rich people; and on the other the Bottomless
Pit into which the vicious and the poor gin-drinKer
ore continually rolling MAX O'Rell is too fresh
to the country to observe those cool ana meiio"
hints which were 50 visible to Goldsmith, MISS
Milford and Miss Austen. He IS not exsctly
bumorist but he is very drol. HIS book reads fun
ME, in French than il could possibly do in an
English translation.
"JoHN BULL" AS A LAND-GRABBER.
ENGLAND strikes most Frenchmen who visit IT as
" John Bullish.' In this instance John Bull is
accepted as the incarnation OF middle
can't
class intellect activity temperameh''
and taxnavipe capacity. He is "un gros proprie~
taireu ltbe word Landlord" will not render this
French sxpression,, with muscular arms. long,
broad. fat and solid feet, and an iron jaw which
closes well on everything it holds HIS estate
which he is always enlarging. is composed Of the
British Isles. to which he gives the name OF the
limited Kingdom to make folks imagine that Ire
land likes him; of the Channel Islands; OF Cae
fortress of Gibraltar, which allows him to pass at
ease through the narrOwest straits IN the world
and of the Isles of Malta and Cyprus, which do as
yappuards in the MediterrL mean. When he gets his
hand ON Constantinope. which his fingers itch TO
clutch he will not seek TO acquire anything more IN
Europe In Egypt, he is more at home than ever
and he can now walk about there with his hands
thrust into his brecches pockets He took good
care rot to dig the Suez Canal; but now that is
made he casts greedy glance at 1t. Beyond the
Red Sea- he can regard with satisfaction the most
snvepd,d mart of his estate, the Indian Peninsula
an empire of 24O,oO0O0o souls. governed by
Princes decked out in gold and jewels who black
his boots for him, In West Africa John has Sierra
Leone. Gambia. the Gold Coast, Lagos. the
Ascension, and St. Helena, which ne
turned into a Jail for the most potent
conoueror of modern times In South Africa
he has the Cape Natal and Zululand. and hs pro
fectsY the Transvaal. Beyond East Africa he
holds the Mauritlus. His American property EN-
braces Canada, Newfoundland, Bermuda. jamaica
Trinidad. Honduras. English Guiana and the K ak
land Islands. The whole Pacific as good as belongs
to HIM. New-Zealand is twice the size of England
and Australia alone is nearly as big as Europe.
John. we are told, has become the owner of all
this with relatively small loss of blood. lie holds
itwth a little army made up of the scum OF society,"
and Just now there is not part OF his estate that
seems to be in danger. But what does 1t profit to
man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul
The Scriptures ask this question and 80 does john
He therefore takes care stand we'll in the King
dom of Heaven, which in his mind is just as much
q British possession India or Australia. France
fights for glory Germany to exist aud Russia to
draw attention from internal disorder. Bat John
Bull Is reasonable and moral. He fights to promote
commerce. peace and order on the face OF the globe
If he conquers peoples, 1T is to teach them how 10
make money and read the Biole-n short to make
them happy here and hereafter. They give their
territories; he sends them shirtings and Bibles.
Exchange ia no robbery"
MAX. ORell" INDUCES in a skit about Zululand
and the righteous indignation which the lsandula
affair caused In London. But when this feeling
evaporated he owns that good sense came our, and
that no more talk was heard about reprlsals.
England at bottom is generous. and readily par
H.. IL ao1 md
when she annexes a colony sets about organizing
it This is done by granting free institutions and
facilities for sef-government Thousands of
English pour in. The colony has Its 'Parlia-
ment, and its Ambassador. who takes th'
name of a general agent If John depended
upon bayonets, all his colonial empire would
soon crumble down like card house Hit
possessions not military establishments In whci
the art of war is practised but outlying Commercial
emporiums belonging to the firm of - Bull O
Company"
Ii 1t were not for the strawberries that grow a
Christmas in the Antpodes, traveller IN Austral;
would think himself in London.
FRENCH BOURGEOIS INCIDENCE.
The physical activity OF John Bulls sons ant
daughters never fails to strike the Partisan VIII
goes to see the English in their island. A Frenci
bourgeois likes to saunter through life when he ha
no work to do. His favorite sport IS rod-nshins Ia
big river or pond Aquiet stroll in the Champs Ely
SECS the Tuileres gardens, or along the Boueyardi
is enough tor him. In the country ne potters abou
in a small garden which he cultivates with success
puts bags of oiled paper on his ripening punches
grapes, ON his roses. In wet weather. breakfast
and Dimes if there sunshine, in little ar5or AM
walks about the village under the shade OF bi
cotton parasol. If there is range of hills at fe
miles distance it occurs to him to explore u
Such an associative feat as the formation OF aluye
nile cricket club would be inconceivable to q frenc
youth Of the bourgeois class. Were French motht
to see her boy engaged in cricket field she woul
get INTO state OF high fever and If he got slight
hurt she would be prodisal OF endearments, lament