New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-10

article by Mrs. Lynn Linton in The Fortnightly
Review on characteristics of English Women
This last is the first of o series which begins
historically and is expected TO end in tn,
usual Anglo-Amercan comparisons. BritA
Matron" in last Sundays Observer" took up
the cudgels in behalf of the English girl against
the American and the British provincial press
followed her lead with beautiful docility. The
Manchester Guardian" itself, which seldom dis
cusses anything less important than the price of
cotton or the martyrdom of Irish patriots. rushed
into this debate Others rush in where the angels
themselves English or American, fear to tread.
Nobody has contributed new idea except the
British Matron aforesaid, who insists that Anglo
American marriages are numerous, not because
Englishmen find American girls irresistible, but
because American girls find Englishmen superior
to their own countrymen. That is novelty
indeed.
There is another clothes question besides Mr..
O'Bren's: perhaps not less interesting TO English
women, if not to men New regulations respect
ing the dress to be worn at Drawing Rooms have
been issued There was story at first that here
after any lady who chose might wear high gown
No such license has in fact been issued. Per
mission to cover their shoulders will be granted
only to ladies who plead Illness infrmity or age.
Nor is any general dispcnsation given. 1t must in
each case be applied for. If the application be
granted, the high gown must be of a specified
pattern Drawing Rooms under this new edict are
expected TO be very much what they were before
Mr. Stcnd's crusade against the London edition
of The New-YorlS Herald" continues. We have re-
seved, says The Globe" from the Editor Of
The Pail Mall Gazette invitation to join in
a combined journalistic protest against the pub
rcation of "Tle Herald seven days in week.
This amiable invitation has been declined by The
Globep We shall all be curious to see who ac-
cepts il.
Mr.. Stead cannot be wholly unaware what posi-
zion he occupies in his own profession. He can
not really have believed English journalists OF
the better class would accept him as leader.
He is always complaining in his own paper that
other papers do not notice him. The Herald
itself left him and bis attacks unnoticed for
day or two. No London morning paper has no
ticed them. To-day. however, The Herald COM
mcnts plainly enough on the mendacity ana au-
dacIiy of The Pail Mall saying Its Editor
knew perfectly we'll that he was assuming as
facts what existed only in his own imagination !;
and IL treats his onslaught as mere advertising
sensation. No doubt this sensation was meant,
as Inc Herald says, 10 duNcfbiSs t"c A"H
MALI which is not prosperous, and is compelled
to resort to many shifts to increase its business
But il is The Herald" which is really adver-
tised. The effort to seduce its printers from duty
seems to have failed entirely. The paper appears
this morning with a bundle of letters from many
people approving the new enterprise.
The weekly papers are taking up the discussion.
"The SPECTATOR which always had marked
Sabbatarian twist leans strongly to the side Of the
Archbishop Of Canterbury ard the Bishop OF Lon
dom Those preates, By the way, though the mistake
on which their protest was based has been clearly
pointed out, have not yet withdrawn nor modi-
fed their litter TO The Tines The Satur-
day Review" which is as strongly Church OF
Eagland ss 10 is anti American. observes that His
Graoe- ard His Lordship, whose profound knowl-
edge of the world is perhaps the occult cause of
their being like flies in amber where they are, evil
IDENTIFY believe that the newspapers brought
them on Monday morning have been
printed and published on Saturday night
Such sacred simplicity is certainly
better than the revolving hypocrisy which would
be its only alternative. The Saturday" shows
itself on other grounds, and most of all because
" The Herald" is American, hostile. That Is
form of hostility which is widespread. The
Sabbataran outcry viii die away, and journalistic
jealousy will do no great harm. The real prob
lem is, whether there is in London an open Held
for American journalism. y. w. D.