New-York tribune., 1884-02-03

English ways and customs and fashions from m Now.
dency is gaining strength ana pS spdSs";ts cities II is
York and Boston TO ars sSs1 for until lately NewYork
has taken its cue rather from Paris tnan Good Amer
don. During the Second EnPhIie pr Tnilcries as TO
Menca and some settled permanently h;arahie Iya,
shrine But Paris is no longer mo,v ,;nnes 70 Get
sh onJon The American girl continue, ~, w Lo S
tnan Lomu"n %, Tho French capital of course but sne
her COWS m a net her habit and her ulster ana ner
cloaks in the English capital sarwaId As to presena
Honft on ~ ~ Court in England; and the p1sspity OIL
oprynS o a title is perhaps present TO her mhd af
she crosses the s STs in the % presence of English
noblemen and of their female frtornational national
ali readers of Mr. JameSs in'eTHS1% '@Womans
BpsSde" and Sfor Sf Mr witness. SsS' In fact the
@errap Girl is no danger of losing her head before
parting with her hand. 1t is hercqnsoriG " no
mated by contact with the Englishman' roops dneno
no o denying that certain set Of AmeFSaRs Boson
aest the TPs'h%aH SsH m%c sTs4y sHa fERS English 81
in ' the most snobbish way They a.'eRI9t RTit
English t6TSS9h SCSS9 theT speech talk Of
thn;r . fads and they call people "cads,D anu
they abound in the most amusing lite sr on Eng
'Ic;r yreotest happiness is to be taken LOT an Ehf
IahIasnon low not often vouchsafed to them III
was to one Of these piifnl imitatlons.a youne M
tonian-that clever New-19rk eali lad Iat to meet
y r., Ill h.
Lord So-and-so; you know nc Is ''"'
man." ,.,;, tbo ;ntroduction
into certain American cities of not rev DrlIsni
cnsfoms Rich men drive heavy carriages i,hpof.cV
from England. ignoring, or ignorant nods oa, I tomSh
that the use of the native AerlGan 70 he mnch
and sprngy, allows American carriages 10 pu i',ro @
lighter while quite as strong. ken young @ mn
play polo in the broing heat of an American
neT Attempts Are Are %aGe foTes are few, SO
that dmto' a drag has frequently to ., be
employed So marked feature 9i 9pi;Wh oustoms
c;riv has the forced imitation of English customs
become that light and lively little weekly caic is
;Go nov about wear old has best made ltself
known by constant attacks ON thls hnn tI tTo nmb
cartoon Of another American comic weekly, Puu ~
lished on Evacuation Day, was picture oi a., IN ,no
importations from England botn men anu itS
now TO be seen in the streets on W the English
sarcastic query as to the exact date Oh oie Thic
eyacnation The variety of Anglomania W wI,cn l,Oaa
most excited the joy of the comic JI t soo %
the Dude There are those VINO pI9i'ehnn ,nn Wosbor
rnsemblance between the Dude and tne MaShGil' Mi
But these are not profound observers. ino1i ino Ha1I
or we venture to think, altn1uen ~ IN y; o,cr
aist - be is living protest against ndecorum;
he is the embodiment OF desire 10 Io IT,, IT, bs
gentleman of the srictest Engnsn cnrtain like
dress there was TO be seen certain @ IN, NJ
moss to the Masher. But here, again, ths
likeness was superficial The Masher was vas dressed So
in the height of fashion always ne o, Duue'
souGbt always to he as unObtrusive as possible III MS
attire Yet his quiet, siii, british l@lanuiS @ tr
Oft ed
nrrent Of worthy farmer who saw two Dutles II,
town and who remarked with great grle1, uoSii!
what things man docs sec "heH no an s'' ''''
gun!"
AMERICA no LONGER PROVINCIAL
NJ Matthew Arnold who is enlightening the
Americans by personal mnlstratlQms anu seC i VI
three lectures, finds BaTbarians. lnllIstIcs, Gi %
Populace in England and declared ms eApeT%,.mI % IN
of fndinc in America only Phllistnes. But lie
reckoned without the American Angomahiac' nj ine
American Anglomapiac as we Vc To ,suS seG 10 Rrtisb
| Ravbarian Mr. Arnold credits with various goou
qualities and he has at least the consciousness 1l
solid postiOn The American pseudO-DaTpaIit itl ~ ds
oil the foults and none of the vlrtues0 OF the ngSh
model and he cannot but he conscious tha' MS Po-
sjton is false and hollow. flc IS but OrunhagcIn
Barbarian-and brunmagem birpaIian 10 t a. III ~
future of the United States that this class OF Anglo
maniacs although beginning to be large enough 10
he counted is only infinitesmal section OF me
American people. Nothing is planerto the Way1ar-
inc man. though fool, if he will but keep MS eyes
| open and note the signs OF the times lhah tne
| growing divergence and IndePendence oi
tho Unified States from England in literature and
| in life The English and the Americans are OF one
stock but they two peoples ana theie is notI-
inc to he gained by prctence that the Americans
are colonial or PROVINCIAL ne cooHlal spllIU W @ idS
been invisible in the United states l9f hlty years,
and the provincial spirit died during the war OF the
! Pebeliion The conditions of life in the United
Stateq the climate. the blending of customs brought
from other lands than England, these unite IN max
InC, tbe American unlike the Engllshinan. w nat
The American is like can best he seen III MT: row
clips novels or in the striking anonymous story OF
the "Breadwnners" Mr. James has dealt admirably
with the EurOpeanZed American; but ne is hlmseH
foo Enropeanized to be altogether satisfactory as
portTaver of the uncontamlnated American; IN fact
we doubt if Mr.. James knows New-i0rk or even
Roston as well as he knows Paris and London. AS
Colonel Higginson neatly put it, Mr.. James is not
true cosmopolitan, because trne e3sm1politan Is
at home even in hls own country MT. James IS SO
| far abroad in his own country that he clted IN
story in The Century, not long ago. as typical
! Americanism, "in the swim" phrase which not
| ono 6merican in ten would be likely to under
stand.