New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-03
THE AMERICAN GIRL.
WHAT OUR ENGLISH FRIENDS HAVE LATE
IL BEEN SAYING ABOUT HER AND
HER ENGLISH HUSBAND.

Ii BEEN sAfin1 Ai Ds,'' HE'D A-'
HER ENGLISH HUSBAND
ry.ox rur axouIAR conaxsPospENr OF rarrRBuSEl
r,cndou Fcbsuary f6.
8. ...s,r !. her. Il 4 not because
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!. e.. .rvsh;rg n renlv TO such English critics
- - - md Jaws in her psrfeotiors It would
Z. 80. - - annlv "a tha American Girl what
$3.50 IA ~ Massacbu.etts. Sh. needs no
S,sss.s Tg,e,e s,.s stanaa /. ,ons nj herr II I
go. asv Object. Il 4 to dive you brief account
~ Ire uresspt state OF the English mind on this
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tSat n nav nos ocsur to this excsilsnt prslate
fiat The American Girl djsturbs divine service on
eupdavs She 4 roo handsome or too well dressed,
and the men look at her instead Of their prayer
boosxx and 10 upon her wel-slapca head may fall
some a. this srchiepiscopar thunder which has
hesIy fontea III the ears Of too enterprising
AmeficAp etiitor.
have read most Of what has appeared or most
ii what 1 have seen. yet cannot say that much
A. Il "a interesting or Instructive or even anus
ins. Some Of it ID controversial. What wrote
2 - vpu vvns sopied into suudry English papers, or
s,a,s ~ 4 vsas. and there were comments on my
go. .ra -, ,napv otbpr vieysx Yet the subject
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wn,ca ere ptosr.uiaiy ,'voS IA. :. az
oolcus; speciahS' mh'on 'uoasns v.1'
z movlneisi crlnc Inc proVincai oriuo "i""s
eclsoraiy IN TIE most poweriui OF plesinv,a' pa
pets erueiN described my poftra's OF enc !.
sri - eauD. INIT Oh couf'e' y sne lssis ~
uns p~inseEs NOS % 'hc sup!eos "nu ','' So '~
I'll eoaid oe no worse on tnan Deiofc' or nss ao
!, trective % the young Enghshman, VINO Is inc oD-
5ect Of her mothers ambition hasten TO assure
my provincial friend that u was not the provin-
ciai English girl whom had IN riinc WHEN
wrote. II Is my misfortupc not to know her; or
y know her iess than should Ike ~ am
k1rsay to belisve II h: h'ss that nothing Sid
y tn the lehss descriptive Of the young lady nom
Manchsstsr Thus shall controversy be avoided.
II b " painful to me 10 appear bsfore You a. the
author Of daub thar must AJAX leave to add
that the same portrait 10 which our Manchester
friend applied this hard word was mitch better
received IN London, where, perhaps. both ques-
sions Of hReness and Questions of art are as
well understood ~ ia Manehesser, or nearly as
well My London critic won't 50 far as to say
that the lights and shadows OK the picture were
shflfully composed Forgive me for quoting what
may seem 10 be praise of myself / want it as
: setro6 against the condemnation from Man
cAsstsx. Ana ] am anxious to nve yuu good
inpresnfon Of London opinion on the matter.
II Is - might be expected. A Bsissh Mssson,'
Whose contzibution to this inquiry has been most
valuable, or rather two British siatfons; one in
pint and one IN private win give each answer
In is order. The English girl herself has thas far
said nothing She Is true to- her character and
txaining. No more does the American Girl l
Wish abe would I feel how inadequate are, and
must be, al merely masculine attempts TO deal
With tbs mbject am sure we oil leave ont
whas ID essential and characteristic. II the Ameri-
: en- 01fl herself would but give us an sutobiog-