New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-14
A YANKEE IDA PFEIFFER.
GOING ROUND THE WORLD.

A woMAH's JOURNEY MOUND TIE FIJI ny. W"E T1e
American News Co.
A record of over sixty thousand miles OF uaVel oy
, yOung woman of twenty-five, without an e>ooi' VI
,ompanion is in itself surprising ana IN TINS case an
the more 80 because the world tour INTO Nhch MISS
Leland,s wandcrngs resolved themselves was begun
,ritbopt any snch purpose and without any prepare
tion An opportunity TO make a Sea voyage TO can
forna on new steamer going ont there ior COAST
service was the beginning OF travels when were con-
Nnncd for a wear and half. and which carried the
nlucky girl all round the globe. The Volhmc "hl'n
describes her experiences is the more Interesting De
,arse none Of its material written for puhIcaon
= has been composed from the letters Miss Leland
wrote to her family, and from Journal Kept bS hcr
The editor states that the book was made IN her aD'
sence and that therefore all responsibility rests upon
him. He does not seem TO realize that there Is soou
1ca of this responsibility, but II is necessary to point
out that either the editor proofIeader or both nave
pas.ed so many atrocious bmnders in the spelling u
foreign words and the composition of foreign phrases
As also in names of places and persons a. cannon I've
excused. There is hardly foreign word III the DOOR
which is spclt Alright, in fact; and Miss Leland ma
kind of French put in her mouth which must cause er
acute anguish.
II NAV also be remarked that the editor has not
always exhibited the best taste Passages which ~
private letters are perfectly harmce sometimes "ncn
made public expose the writer 70 suspicious ol eso's
or vanity or nippanCy and several such-Whch osn'
10 have been eXcised-have been allowed 10 s'ahu }"
these pages The secret Of Miss Lelands success
as traveller is however, open one. She J. pEhN
n vounr woman Of exceptional Selfconrol ana steady
GOOD temper The most conspicuous characteristic Oh
her conduct throughout this globe tTolhE eNPciI'
nent is the impcrturbabty and lndomitdbe ohce'Ih
ness with which makes the best OF eNerSthH
,he is never found complaining about the many as
comforts of travel though is quite evident hat she
fr,l. If
nleasant 10 know that wherever she went size iouhd
people prompt and TO serve ard assist her an"
that she was but once in all her extensive Journey
ucs even so much threatened with inNult ana 'ha'
exception occurred in Paris. What this implies may
he gathered better from glance OF her itinerary.
She went first from New-IOrk TO san Francisco ny
zen In California she visited the Yosemite, inc
c;eyscrs the Biz Trees, southern California. Ihehoe
she went TO the sandwich Islands from there back 20
san Francisco and to Japan. where she traNeIed
unite extensively in the interior IN JanHchNh"'
China singapore, Java. followed. She crossed india
visiting Pondichcry Madras. Calcutta The llinalaNaN'
Delhi Bombay. She proceeded thence to Egypt. and,
Of course "dd7 &c Pyramids, trusting herself alone
with the Arab guides and beccars who swarm theie'
The Holy Land explored, then ConstanthopIe'
Greece. italy, Rome. Venice, switzerland Germany
Holland Belgium, Paris. Denmark Norway, Russia,
England Scotland and Ireland complete the list On
returning insulated with travel she visited the Rocky
Mountains the Yellowstone PARK the Sierra NeNadaN'
the Yosemite again. the Columbia River, and 80 nome
at last.
The young travellers comments upon men ana CUES
and works of art are decidedly entertaining and not
seldom because of the cudty and lack Of culture
which characterizes them. IN europe she fails
foul Of the old masters with a funny uhcoh-
seriousness Of her own dense incapacty a, a cit'''
With that happy audaCity which 50 many Young people
mistake for evidence of intellectual s-ogrcss and eWan
cipatou fIou foolish Old world conventions and trail
nfTb q
ing little cen>lres upon Titan and Raphael ana Eu-
bcns and Mrrlo and with engaging candor asserts her
preference for modern ant and her scoln for subjects
chosen BY tie old masters. one obvious reason Tor
her hostile attitude is her position as en- avo"ed di,
cpe Of Colonel Robert Inger~olI lie and Mark Twain
appear be her Chief authorities upoh both the at ana
history Of Europe. and The results Of her confidence
in sucl guide, 1Ic often somewhat astonishing. II
nav we think te questioned whether MIS- Leland
would have consented TO the publication Of mach u
this had she been given an opportunity 10 look over
certainly neither she nor her friends have much g"1u'd
ior satisfaction in the too comprehensive frn'Ne~- o
many Of her opinions and judgments. These blem>h"~,
however must not he allowed to wei.h too
heavily against q narrative for the faults % which
the editor rather than rhe author j, accountable ana
much will be forgiven Mss Leland On" ~cor" Of the
gallant patriotic spirit which She displayed. ard with
which she routed and pr, to Eight iGuonh"u-l' "!'
the nations of the elri that presumed to pat them
selves in competition With the Great Republic %ove'
surely did an American girl hauut the NtWs and
Stripes more dcfantly in the face Of mankind. ana
yet she must have mingled her defiance win some
subtle charm. for nobody seems TO have been in t'e
least offended by her manifestations while on th"
contrary most Of her victims appear 70 have Liked
her all the better for her nerve
The fact that "a young and pretty woman can in
these days go all around the world with perfect i'm
punity may easily be made T. carry too much -.e
nifcance Miss Leands triumphant success Wa,
we have no doubt. very largely due to her own re
serve and crcumspection. She made few acPnant-
ances and she seems from Of her descriptions 10
have cultivated a rcpeant dcmeanor including some
thing very like the traditional "stOny British stare
With these aids she pa scd scatheleSs a. the irish
maiden who made the famous pedestrian tour through
The Green Isle but would probably not bc vl~c
OR even American women to 20 and do likewise
On a considerable scale. seeing that temperament is
an important factor in the case