The Indianapolis journal., 1884-11-15
q SERGEANT BALLANr1NE's BOOK.
The Great English Lawyers Opinion Of the
United States.

The Great English Lawyers Opinion of the
United States.
Review in Pail Mall Budget.
The Sergeant was immensely impressed with
American journalism. and was able to zap
preciate the wonderful enterprise that has en-
compassed and occupied by its energy the i'm
mense space extending between the two oceans
and think 1 ought to add that the avidity for
news fully equals the power of supply
One impression took hold of my mind when read
ing the contents of the Herald. New York World
New York Daily News, the Tribune and other of the
chief papers, that they could not be recording the
events of single country, even those of gen
eration There is nity of space included in their
columns positively bewilaering and so astounding
difference of habits and incidents that it might be
supposed that century OF years instead OF the time
occupied by the dnunal revolution of the earth had
been ranssckd for their production.
Mr. Ballantine isfa bon viveur, and declares
that in American hotels the cooking is vile and
wines except being profanely christened with
the sacred titles of a former age, bear no rela-
tionship to their ancestors" A chapter headed
hotels and cookery" oddly enough leads off with
a dissertation sensational crimes" ="
Crimes" we are told, sensational and ro-
the United States of America, and New York,
not many years ago. was the scene of one that
caused great excitement" Then comes the
story of the Fisk shooting case. The next para
graph contains a description of the Hoffman
House. where nothing can be better than the
attendance, and it is a sine qua non for the wait
ers to be without boards" He gossips ON about
TURTLES, telrapins and canvas back duck and
proceeds, in the interest of that larg portion of
my friends to whom economy is an object, to
give them an address where oysters good and
cheap, chops and steaks fresh off the gridiron,
and excellent bitter ale may be had at a moder
ate price. To div ulge the secret might lessen
the circulation of the book, so we forbear. He
has good dinner, with speeches not too long,
recitations never tedious, and songs always
amusing Then-late in the evening-he is de
lighted to hear Barry Sullivan's celebrated soCg
Of The Sea, calling up "a train of memories
of happy hours passed among kind friends
when life was young and fresh, and hopeful
and with the thoughts thus engendered l viii
conclude my sketch of the entertainment, add
ing thanke to my host for what, in my minds
calendar, will be marked as a 'red-letter day "
No wonder he left Philadelphia the following
day with regret. Il is a little too bad of the
wicked SERGEANT to repeat the story of the New
York paper which reported that Lord Coleridge
had declared that ''he thought the American
women far excelled their English cousins both
in beauty and intellect, and he should not be
backward to say so ON his native soil" "Al'
though he comments Il cannot claim either
the Judgment or experience of Lord Coleridge
upon the beauty and destinations ef the fair sex
1 am confident that American ladies
will be quite eontented, and their countrymen
viii not be displeased at the place l assign to
them of equality with their English cousins"