New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-14

WA ever nc wOic about America r. his published LET
,ernen should psah Of poplc who showed him hind
h es, Sn, II sir Dickens bad neser printed Amcr
nccfipns in Martin chuszIr Wit tie world voulA
Jefferson Erch. surely nation gifted with of
nn n n oo"h no, luaIel Tnrh With these caearcs
and the Hon. iIorao Fizsln
:, But people may say. an English traveller Of note
In Aneriss + continuity boins asked for frank opin-
3n ~: MATHEW AInod's opinion have teen par
s so extremely frankly aboni Euglnnd. sbo0f
sn Nv Ser'snly re oliai0n was wanted certainly
server Win his own way Of sec,t the world and
occug The st vcrsne hours Of noble poe. a' sup
iIon marx &c ,1Se nsi aes o. eea,y End dsn
English Or Italian life be without past which be
gueathed az ths an worth meni eninc. most Of the
Why England would have NO beauty ~ att ony al
way stations. churches which womb not he sham
Gothic, houses which would nor DC even slam Queen
ann" AS TO Italy, she would show wilderness II
hocis and barracks ~ there would BE- no ancestral
wealth. cannot think whore our beautiful barbs-
rans would and rest FOR rho solos of their feet. In
fect, you canbDt, In Industrial country possess
he ancient monIments. and The princey manners and
a,odes beqneathcd by the pey, The art the learning,
the conquests Of generations which lucky enough
10 know not irdnsria ISM Whether industrial ism too.
II nature lceps /, alive. wiz dcve!opc at,
some noble and sesmy way of life no man can predict.
Probably there will be awkward break fist, In hs-
totcal STRATA glacial age, world Of ice, or world
OF fire.
Any beauty and distinction which the new ago
has produced and not inherited mus, ~, one thinks,
popular ana inc0nsI cuOHsa distinction Of character.
nor OF manners OF ethics. mo- Of art; II Mr. Roosevelt
can ind IL In American architecture. he il ucEy
than we ar at home. with bulldogs a. oxford
Fut speaking OF manners reminds that. II mar
Judge b. American icrIon. barbsrisns do NOT
possess he good manners which lou Darwinsn prtnci
plesl they should have inherited. Herr spe,. a.
and have no frog,s says Mr. Mark Tws,n's her.
am stranger here, too. and have no earl Bur.
| may Judg, hy story In ScribDers Magazine"
named First Harvests. the British earl abroad 4; fear
ful animal Lord Birmingham. In that narrative. IS 4
70 nse The n5ras e m ns innt ~ % s,o 10
~. drunken abusive cowardly. liar and a Hbecr.
Are they often like that aud. d So why are they not
introduced TO the native cowhdcl Why do the lovely
daughters of The West endure their prcscnce' Nny
Mr. Henry Jamcss agreeable story - London Life'
where 20 be sure, This unps'rtotlc satirist wcds lis
Is not exactly Tina Let us hope that those terrible
English folk arc only exceptions. not precisely types.
hciion an American Character 10 compare with ,iem
these International sffrays. We. Tor example.
tainted with our English accent 80 one blaines
unless the Kabyios do 50 and, unless an Enelshman
Is talking american. do not sec why his accent shond
there - English accent. There IL scotch accent
an Irish accent Somerset 9ccen cockncy accent. a
be replied that there is no American accent either.
and perhaps there is not and II thcr why should
P PsTs" fefsS On whSq Pc Il Sses o where W.
behnd-i. all the lime when We say slways,i
and the lie 1t is his idoms that are American. ard he
may. perhaps. have American ntonsiions. or ihers
may be no such thing and the accent we cali Amencsn
mag be Pennsylvsnlan, OStouan. or what not How
ever. Engishmen viii probably please Americans
least by never making any remark on 'hs subjecL.
say We took them for English. that they dr.
pleased II say recognized Them for Americans
nsve way Fl Pint II re opS at all It is eSrcney POI
s0ne at The least aud so the lady should have cmem
fuldA atfplf hat
her Of a banjo doubtless there are many English
women with no sensc and breeding than this qee.
daughter OF Albion. ! wonder II she afcrxairl wiotS
a description OF aIr. Roosevets srpearsnce. manners.
dress, and mode Of life in an English newspaper
This accident has twice occurred 10 ne when havs
beside American ladies' st dinner once 81 The houss
of a friend. once under my own lowly root bo.n
pshed and young. No less can say oi them, De-
ae each was kind enoagh to publish in american
hstterlns descriptions OF myself mi my S sas;o
and everything that was mine except ny
black Cat Frank. which somehow ESCAPED Their
notice. Now | am sure no Engiishwoman would
have been SO goOd-narci as 10 print limo about me
| only mention these attentions OF COImbias pair ~
literary daughters a set.oh to Mr. Roosevelts Eng
lish lady OF tine banjo.
The truth IS, that English are more like Americans.
and Americans more HE English than aDy o'hrr rw'
sets OF human beings !, is much like the difference
between oxford sni Cambridge mrn or between
Guards and Line That is Why snch watchful cys
Is kept the differences. and why we squabhie iike
sisters inlaw. am not speaking OF INTERNATIONAL
We are 10 fight ahon them which may God forbid, let
fight The ~ Tiers indeed. but also lie gentlemen
DO not let MS run about quarrriing to whether m.
Americans talk through their noses and whether ".
droD our 2splralcs about whether American vol
uuteers could whip tho German army about whether
American literature i good scotch. ahoI.
whn her America an architecture Is bsf English
about the comparative demrrS of suddenly onr'chei
Bonanza man and d"pravcd English peer; about
whether American ladies prritier than ihrr sisters
OF England: shoni oil tho riynarolc 90 anonymous
people in tho Journals. ard all III" acerhtes OF crin's
arhi,iors % originality. and sfIainng alter style
Those id newspapers have done n all- SAID
Bocr officer 20 friend Of MINE whom he happened
To meet with few brll"fs In his person. near ths
summit ~ mountain IN South AREA
q These Id critics Journalists. vagaz'ns
reonIa nov.';sts ard orators have d0ns
! ~ we nav all saw. vlau ve iOk At The inter
national amenities witch remind ne so much ~ 'he
talk between 'Tilda Price ard Fanny SGne~rS. Inrf-
! national girlishpcSs Is dsrOrahe spectacle. Dl:
/ Fate really fnrrser, Mr.. Arnold writes. what o
habv Man ,yould BE- p,