New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-07
NOTES FROM LONDON.


that considering how long we have been divided
from Won Won speak English remarkably we'll"
This daring remark he addressed to the Master and
Fellovs of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who
rightly thought they could not completely celebrate
Their Precautionary without help from the American
Minister Ii is instantly picked out from its con-
text and commented upon by the London press;
not ill-naturedly. but with certain surprise that
any American, shielded from violence though hc he
by the sacredness of his diplomatic character,
should venture upon flight of humor so high rs
this | hope. for Mr. LowelPs sake. that Mr. Sala
may not hear of this new pretcnsiou in behalf OF
American English. If he should. | could tell him
that never since Mr.. Lowell has been in England
has he ceased to assert the claim of his owa Ian
pnnqe IA spoken in his own country To equality
with the English of England, If not to something
more than equality The Masters aud Fellows ct
Emmanuel College perhaps less jealous guardians
of English fame than Mr. Sala, or lees conscious oi
their mission to protect il AGAINST ali corners re.
prived MIR tiowcrs observation with laughter ana
,heers That also is English. John Bull may think
,,,n presumptuous person for standing MP I" hlh'
aud may sometimes intimate his dissent from your
attitude Nv Knocking You down. bnt whether he
strikes ot hears he will certainly like you thc better
cor taking the chance of either
Mr. ntomicy paycnpofrs death is melancholy
ief would like &C. 90 ont of tho world ia W oi
sp,pia.v htnnght un hv excitement rhd disiir7s ~
tho aoaninlnHs conduct of tthnrs oillrr,7 included
undof his command, Ito was 90 guud type hs ton
eonid dnd at the loly county meinhofl indeed \ is
too much 10 call him type, ior ho was suretio' &"
the average representatives at Agricultural 'nhhll
uences, lie had culture conversation VII r'rh'
aud could write, says one ahcctoua'e enloeht'
almost as we'll as he rode. Sitting for Month War
III fHlf sl
aud known by everybody in the House who was
himself worth knowing, Mr.. Davenport wa never
theess content 10 leave 10 other, the Parliamentary
distinction he might easily have attained.
staunch partisan faithful to his principles, loyal to
the call of his leaders what he really cared for was
that country life which is TO be enjoyed in per
lection in England and perhaps in perfection no
where else lie belonged to an arlStocTaCY which is
as independent of title as it is of place Perhaps it
is not necessary to put implicit faith in Burke as
sertion that the DavenpOrts descend from Ormus de
Davenport who was living temp. cOaqiC,tOris as the
historian of the landed gentry hath it, But they do
seem to derive lncaly from a certain Nicholas
Davenport de WoodfOrd. who iiourishcd in the time
of Edward H., and that is much further back
than most titled familiea can 60. Through all these
generations they lived on their land feared God
and honored the King. Born into this nineteenth
century, BrOmley-Dayenport had IN him neverthe-
less the stuff of Cavalier He thought no doubt,
the world going sadly wrong in these Radical days,
but he lived his own life in manly simple hearty
way. don't know that England VIII ever produce
more interesting and agreeable Englishnen than
those who have thought things as they are or even
as they WERE good enough for them and for others,
and have resisted reform not from low motives but
from the contcnted Indifference that comes of happy
and healthy lives Such men overflow with kind
ness to those about them They good landlords
and good citizens. They don't advance the cause
of progress but they help make the social life of
England the pleasant thing il still is. Not high
ideal perhaps But such position as Bromley
Davcnport's with such a character TO grace it, is a
good thing to be born into In these rXacing days,
the public demands of man who takes share IN
public life a pretty complete devotion to public
ends Rightly. yet none the less is there room left
for those who adorn private station and who pass
out of il amid the regrets of everybody who knows
them as does Mr.. Bromloy-Ddycnpolt.
Once again Tie Times has broken with tradition.
i appeared on Monday as Illustrated paper
The adventurous reader who explored the inner
pages of the outer sheet few dol was rewarded by
finding a small landscape extending across two
columns and some three inches in height. BY dnt
Of reading the column of print below he would
satisfy himself that tins sketch in black and white
was intended to represent the new bridge over the
Forth now constituting. and he would speedily
make MP his mind that this latest triumph of the
modern British engineer will he entitled 10 rank
among the most hdcous of his many hIdcous pIO-
ductons. lie would perceive, further, that the
artist () aud printer of the paper had not Shrunk
from attempting to depict shruhbcry ON the banks,
clouds in the sky. water beneath the bridge aol
ships of strange device upon the water Altogether.
an attempt more ambitious than successful, and
well calculated 10 convince confling public that
its daily paper il "a more attractive object without
illustrations than with them Thc PoH Wall gazette.
whose concern ia the guardianship of the universe
Is now very nearly coeVteusiye with that of its
creator. cries out joyfuly That thi, newest new de-
patturo of the leading journal is bat one more step
along the path of useful innovations where itself
had previously and proudly led the way. Possibly
but my impression is that few Of the experiments
which hll the bosums of the Northumberland,
people with these emotions of s'll-,atIsiacton are
of much promise. Their so-callcd pictorial illuetm-
tons have been without exception crude and course
md bad including even those with which they
lately lighted M page Of puncry for part
soap clcvcrly disguised reading matter Pity
that The PdU Wan, which Is in many respects one
Of the abcst and most admirable of English joan.
mails, should indulge in 50 many ccccntrcitics.
1t has already been announced that tie first in
stament of Captain Burton's new translation of
the Arabian Nights may be expected this autumn. /
am indebted To friend OF his Tor some details
which have not yet, think, been made public
There is still room for translation of the Arabian
Nights All nearly all the popular editions, of
which there are hundreds. are but renderings mare
Of less imperfect from Professor Galaud's French
version, which is itself abrjdgment from the
original, and turns a most valuable ethnOgraphical
work into a mere collection of fairy tales More
over, these English transatons abound in Gal
licsms, and their style offers but painful contrast
to the French of the sixteenth century. Some