Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-03-23

10 Ret ioir not 70 say . iaVorhpie jug
msnt upon Americans or anything Amer
lean in England or from Englishmen.
From Lord Jeffreys, in the Edinburgh
Repie,e. down to the merest cad, the cue
was to deprsciste everything transatlan
tic. II Is true that the prowess OF the
American sailor and soldier could not
well bo disputed in view Of the issue OF
the wars Of the Revolution and OF 1872,
but that difficulty was overcome by
quietly ignoring the whole matter.
Washington Irving was the first Ameri.
cas who succeeded in breaking through
this iron prescription; and Emerson,
Longfellow, Lowell and half dozen
other literary men, have followed In
their wake, in these latter days. In fact,
Of late, IL has become the fashion, in
very influential British circles. to deal
out great deal Of what In the current
slang is known as "taffy" to the ingenu-
Gus citizen Of the new world. Failing to
assist Jefferson Davis ito create ma
tion," to employ the language Of Mr..
Gladstone, the Englishman is now re-
sorting to tho "blood Is thicker than
water" programme, and he is never tired
Of pointing with pride, real or simulated,
to our common ancestry and common
language. In this laudsble crusade of
love and reconciliation he is being very
thoroughly seconded by such American
toadies asour present minister to the Court
of 81. Jamess, the Hon. J. Russell
Lowell, who Is principally noted for
the authorship Of certain colorless and
vapid works in which the emasculated
Bostonian Of the present day affects to
discover evidences Of genius.
Waving this perhaps caustic estimate
Of our present as contrasted with our
past relations with Great Britain, It is
pleasant to find that, occasionally,
Englisbmen Of rank and influence lend
thsr1 lyss to an estimate of Americans
which, Is quite evidently sincere and
untrammeled by hostile traditions or by
= desire to wipe out recent unpleasant
remembrancss.
Such man is Lord Ronald Cover,
who has recently published work in
two volumes entitled "My Reminiscen-
ces." Though blood as blue as that
Of all the Howards runs in his veins,
Lord Cover does not disdain to say just
and true things Of America and Ameri.
cans. Though his work Is largely
devoted to the most distinguished liter.
ary mon and political notabilities Of the
age, from Carlyle to Lord Beaconsheld,
we propose to concern ourselves only
with that portion of it which relates to
his American tour. which was made in
1878. He says of our people: "They
''arc intellectually, as people, vastly
superior to any other nation, and the
''progress they have made, and are making
ANNUALLY, il one of the most gratifying
''facts in the history Of civilization y
He did not confins himself to any single
section Of the United States, and he
seems to have been agrceably impressed
wherever he went. He says: ''Wher-
ever went, found oil classes Of the
Americans, not only civil but highly
{" civilized, o. compared, class for class,
with the English; not only amiable,
:" but as rule kind and courteous, and
"with rare exceptions well informed,
well-bred and having more refinement
"of manner than any other people l
" have ever come amongst. l admire
with all my heart this great people.
He not only likes our people but our
climate, as we'll, Of which latter he says,
and he must have had Los Angeles in
his eye; II begin to think this Ameri-
can climate is the most perfect in the
universe. All this week has been
heavenly and the sky infinitely more
blue than ours in England, and the
air has brightness and sparkle about
:" 1t that gives one sense Of continually
"quaffing ethereal champagne.
So much for this verdict of the En-
glishman who can lay claim to the blood
Of the Grosvenors, Campbells, Howards
and the rest of that ilk. There is an.
other Cover, who preludes his patro.
nymic with John Farquharson, who
writes letter from Sacramento to
the San Francisco Argonaut, in which
he indulges ia an atrabilious tirade
against Americans of all grades. His
British stomach is evidently in need of
great quantities of blue mass and effsr-
yescing waters to restore it to anything
like the ability to evolve wholesome
chyme and chyle. According to this
Cover resident of Sacramento Americans
are specially lacking in refinement, and
even American women are notable for
the absence of interesting qualities of
either person or mind. Mr.. John Far.
quharson Cover delights in multiplying
instances in which Americans have been
snubbed by Englishmen, and he adj.
vances the cnnobling proposition in ia.
vor of his countrymen that where they
have married American women money
hasbeen their sole object. English women,
according to him, are the paragons of
the earth, with whom their American
sisters dare not court and cannot sustain
a comparison. According to him even
''the most verdant cannot mistake the
"aristocratic cast OF countenance, the
'well poised head, the nameless grace
''of manner and the sweetly modulated
"voice which distinguishes the English
'lady, No veneer or surface polish will
"be mistaken for it," We have the as.
surance OF Mr.. Cover that this match
less grace is the result of seven centuries
Of civilization, of which no american
woman partakes or can hope to equal.
In the name of the prophet, figs 4,
Those Of our readers who are in danger
OF being impressed with this English
mans rot would do well to buy and read
Queen Victoria's latest book. He will
therein lind the concentration OF that
refinement and delicate estheticism
principally concerned with John Brown,
which American ladies must pine after
from afar but can not hope to attain.
RTAMAANY HALL and its Grand