New-York tribune., 1886-06-07
GLIMPSES OF AMERICA.
BY AN ENGLlSHMAN.
rs.as,,.l H-,d,no,s in Temple Ear.

ssas moor part brought more under his eyes,
Il re s1en sns, any "a because the elevated railway
very good substitute for the undersrouhu as IA ID
80 of the great avenues throughout the greater par.
of their length. And partly too PERHAPS because '1o ro
tSu mssninccm, and tho las,ng-is not hidden
behind IN back streets as In london oas some Of
the older Qnarersthc clearly outlined red prK hs
VIII srsn Hess sSsa Su pay ,s be- ia Que Of Sim
rlor and less beautiful parts OF tno hague "a iawdry
ana nondescript. The architecture org nus witch
tisrmenis are bigger The really hner unform,ty
o. street plan with great variety OF M M
The groue of houses belong ny TO the Nahaernl'.
IL classical cgnihed. cocoa.nb. 'aanrGn -
It is GALE, called ..o0. .0n'p,sw nousc'
@o the earliest French Renaissance. richly
wrought; and t5ough smaller would look as "s E ,a ~
y,,,k lane Mr.. Holiors say and IL indeed. III w
own more suiied!y ornate fashion, quite az beanuu.
Har'y less h @ enan .ne Cthai C,theiraI OF
beanitiu white stone. |, Is Flsmboyant, ana I'D '"o
.ea'1iies VIII look like Abheville. -
Central PARK" recalls Hyco Park scarcely al al. IL
has litte of the Bos and little OF Inc rfa'ea "a
sunday afternoon. In the Iari called tno asi, nai
YER excellent band peorm admirably all sorts OF music
from waltz OF Maid deuel TO the Asnus 'ei oi MoIn,.
ah.enr and what striking indeed about The New ORR
population. in The ponular resorts Is I'M. 30 S ,e
hundred. and hsif dozen Yankees what are 'ne'e
"aonI trTg .lorSer-at all events ibeofcial New
Yorker-wno EXERCISES humble functions, docs appear
10 me- AN AN appa y. respectap'c
person. IL yoa admire psftlcui"ri! eoou, %
w,l-iuanncred IN blush gray tune anu oevom
lux hat ue t"in' on' TO De =" an exceed
insiy uIguined, proicrty-hVidinc lnll1e-aSot srr @
1Isn Ms v"s himself a cab-drlver. and mentioned
price with quiet f,,le. proless''"1 nbvsicIsn
Casually naiuus Tue which yoa are Indebted 10
Llm Ii was hsb bat after sligh eudeavor IL poI'o
Wendell hs eeugs 100 deeply had We snsg sled that
lie sAouid onoat US tle 'ess Inc "ss, ,, % ion, he
business You conr1ea 20 & "a -, H. div your
contracts 10 enable You TO eat ana oo'n Vi y" '"
contract.
Uorf, veNpoyE. Bosrox-I wish that the American
waller could 10 Induced take conprehrDslVe We" %
OF lie. lsit not barely yosslD.e ina' "neh o"e S ~
bell Tor HIN IL : mol fVT iced water 49, ~. ra,.
: HnsyoN~Iesieiday afcI noon Mr.. Richard Dana LonS'
fellow Son-in law Giovr me 10 o., fal daaghiei
Miss LongfeIlow living tuere VITA Mt m
Il ~ nn,r Is larse gray whIie wcoden holse-a frame
house." they cali It-oi Two Stories 80 20,
cot from the gate. And owning the land Jnst III
front. the public roai' he hep' ~, a' ~
rnn,rI ,,ud Tree too of trees, that TIE Ni'w
mint be The fullest it cleared meadow l'nt ana
tres lille the rght aiui aud tue sft eid tne eye
over the length lhs meadow TO ITS cph wneIe
brown aud ttie mafsh iah' Tue OH''4o'
River. Quiet and SLOW, geaiDs Ia the landschpe A..
Then We went INTO the house. II Is Inc mousse tnal
Washington occupied during the War OF indie
pemdence so mat 1t mas a double IN
eighteenth century much o! It's material oe'np ntoust
Is Of Tue must denlnel cassie 50 TO say-in
the best Georgian manner MIS- Dan" shnwea uie '"e s
nnrtrat. Inrr- Is d very and animated heal o.
Inc Mrs LDngfeiow or nearly forty years ago "y my
dear friend Mr. heay very g.od Pc.uio al st.nGs
aud later portrait by Ernest LOusie Ow Oh MS iather
rs an elderly Ths is likeness his ainiy think
excellent. aud 10 10 reproduced Tor Inc Dook oI
"Meruoirs," which Is soon TO appear -
All the manuscripts or Lo"RlelIoWs poems
are kept IN bat6ound volumes the lowest
row in The book-ease | reu,.'nOerea n,Tam george
at sonh Kenslu gon Longiellows worG SCENE To nave
been easy and diving attn en- as vas at hr be-
Hat laelf
You ANA know wny-snd saw tue hrst thns and the
last Dekcns's writing got , fuller and and fuller sa
T ielt he fatigue Of worS. Ard iiouen the
laer stories OF G'OrEe Eliot d! the ewcss are in ihe
through fol Adam 'ie wnich Is the very cear one
s-whIch sne madc TO send BlacKwooL That was how
she began.
BosroS-Yesterday went to see DR.. Wendell Holmes.
~ beecon'st. and spenos the greater Iart oi
his tine IN his ample library. win
The Back Bay" lies at the back of the harbor behind
aud away all the mass OF snippihg, AMI Is really In
IL noa into the barDOr and the sea- Inc Back Bay
distinct. OF which Betconst IL the principal street .ld
Cannon calI-dve. the greatest avenue. has the adj
,au, ,uodern hmdins On the other hand /, has Its
nlilier cimste-" tue Back Bay climate" as dis
tuguished from that of the Older ana upper
RE TO All aggravated form of cold-tne e. Back Bay
o'ld" Dr. Mcnde Hoimes however though sevrhty-
makes hinseit very safe IN ns oary ron tue bAck
Eay coid. SAW nim on "a sunny " fAl al ernoon the
iro,n
boat Il stretch olpacd water ana III the distance the
long thin iue OF Cambridge its hitness aud Its Spires
h,nnny with H. f,int wrraihed smoke lie Ia ked
good about Boston society; sald that there were
dNg1,S. dysI b@, s SSPe y"% have soSs walls and we
fences and the feu'es are cute as
asked ne VIVA the thing that struck NE most IN
America -sid ~ arsiic hpish OF ne Am, rcans;
exHcting ! vrntured u tell him that The American
ot"r.s Of tsslr ALLOW ed the,u 10 care more for how
4 ftt 4. lut M III
that a. snccesses III literature bore he out
In inr' tod n, 'sses OF peops in Boston
said , ~it. .neatncs. we could not approach but
'~' ne ra Ms1e as 'i ea EY9a tra 1es IT,, TO
fse .a, .... He answered. not in the least dog
matica y, O. w1en he was In England, long ago, lie
cidut tnut iIl,l artists part,cui1ry imsginatne or
Crigns. io nsd seen he thonght. Virgin and enid OF
Sir Joshua's. an II hst nothing OF the deal MT
s.id OF cour,' thu. could well believe tnat. but that
ia aud,- .. whole French scnool. which the Amer
OF lie talked deligntfuiiy for an hour and
tod three stories wita good deal of Initiative
action. The ori-kest man ] ever saw. l think, at
seveuty-~Ix. ami with a mind he most alert
On Saturday Louis Dyer. the Greek professor AT Har
vari sn An, rican who und,r Jowett aud is Baol
rrctlGcd by Amrrica-Dyer. asked to luDcl IN
tow, tlnt nht meet iowrils Agasslz the son of The
siil better known Agsssz hut reekoned sable
g, hts fatner. a ure student was there aso. ana
probably the lest picture by the American william
Hunt cleaning gray landscape Of tneir Gouce ter
Harbor" ! it day or two before Howells is
genial downright aud wthal satrical
peIso-inst now in tho very fullest possession OF
without tne slightest effort He talked mncn OF books
praiSine BIorusen greatly, and even unduly. as was
aftel ward told other people, almost clever, do not
discern In Lin hall ~ Howclls does, seems
He recommended to read Miss MuIlree's Prophet of
the Great sm0kJ Mountain : the Tennessee dialect
beng not very bsfiag mach less battling than the
Scotch OF Sir Walter. He agreed with Tue very much
when I aise, Thomas Hardy. We srOkc p"rticularly
OF Under tne Greenwood Tree. Ind a Pair of Blue
Iyes.' Still can forgive him for undertaking
Di keps. We spoke of Zola. and when / extoied
'Paee IAmour,' he SAID II was certainly immense
piece OF pathos though lie sometimes donbted the
tive litllr-Ihoueht It little forced questioned
whether the woman would have been quite so much in
love with the doctor: whether the between her
love for child tue doctor woud really have been
Que so stubborn. But IN the matter of love- she
never say, aud anyhow It was imne Sc pathos. We
spoke OF the theatre | explained what cOuld about
Sims Jones aud sydney Grdniy. Gilbert he knew the
best OF dismststs. He always read Gilberrs IL
byt ttos with delight.
CAMBRIDGE. The friend who came away with Emerson
from Lo gfeows funeral told day that Emerson
then being stricken IN jears, had lost much OF his