The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-21
A LORD ON HIS TRAVELS.

New York World.

New York World.
Lord Ronald Cover was found slipping a ma
tutinal cocktail at the bar of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel yesterday. OF medium height and light
build, clad in a loosely fitting suit of blue serge,
and crowned by a gray Derby hat, there was
little in the outward appearance of the literary
and artistic celebrity to attract particular notice.
But for the inevitable single e~ye-glaSs, that con-
venient barrier between an Englishman and the
outer world, he would not have been distin-
guished from any other in the thronged corridors
of the hosiery.
The handsome head and features of Lord
Ronald have been made familiar to most people
by the excellent portrait frontispiece OF his re-
Gently published "Reminiscences
This is a sudden arrival" said the World re-
porter. 1.-THE other day it was announced that
you had gone to India, and now you are in this
city. What steamer did you come over onF
No steamer at all, . replied Lord Ronald, with
a quiet smile. II came by railway this time
round the other way"
worldf"
mo, this will be the first time 1 shall have
swung completely around the circle. Last time
| went express from England to Australia and
back on a definite mission. 1 have not hurried
on this trip. 1t is eight months since l left
England. Since then l have visited Egypt and
made the tour of Arabia, Persia, India, Ceylon,
Java, Borneo and Sumatra, then up to Hong
Kong, where | renewed many pleasant ac-
quaintanceS before crossing the Pacific to San
Francisco, where, by the way, I first heard of
Uncle Sam Wards death; thence across the
continent, with a few short stoppages on the
way"
"Where did you last see Sam Ward?7
"Just before l left home 1 saw much of him at
my brothers shooting-boX in Sutherlandshire.
He was full of a long cherished project of visit
ing the East in order to study Buddhism in its
original home. We talked of making the journey
together, and he was to have joined me atsCairo,
but his illness at Rome prevented the consum-
nation of this plan"
Have you seen anything new in American
much, indeed, l may say that nothing has
interested and astonished me more than the life
of the West. The Western people seem to me
more alive than any other people | have ever
come in contact with. And they live in the
present most wildly and emphaticaly. Every
nerve and feeling seems strained in the business
or enjoyment of the passing hour. Things are
very different here. Yet New York, too, seems
to have taken on much of the speed and enter
prise of the West. The elevated railways and
the great bridge are evidence of the great change
wrought in the comparatively short period that
has elapsed since my last visit. Then, too, you
have a really beautiful theater in the Casino,
where l enjoyed an excellent concert last even
ing
els2"
Il have not made any definite plans in that
direction. The journalistic habit of taking notes
has led me to a mas of material out
OF which [ may be able to dig something worth
publishing some day. My stay here is indefi-
mite, but / shall enjoy it in renewing some old
friendships, and perhaps add a little to my
knowledge of people and places before l sail for
home"
Lord Ronald Cover is the younger brother of
the Duke of Sutherland and has adopted as his
cipher a pair of scales in which artistic skill, is
symbolized by a compass and chisel, outweighs
his coat-of-arms He is the sculptor of the
famed statue of Marie Antoinette on Her Way
to Execution" the Shakespeare monument and
other specimens of plastic art that have been
much praised. AS trustee of the National Por-
trait Gallery of Scotland he has done much for
the advancement of art in Gil at Britain. His
Dutch Painters" and other works long ago
gave him deserved eminence as a writer on art,
and his contributions to the London journal,
Vanity Fair, together with the recital of expert
ences in many lands in his latest book, prove
him to be a close observer and thoughtful critic
of men and manners.