Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-26
EUROPEAN CAUSERIE.
Max 0'Rell Discourses About Current
Topics on the Other Side.
ENGLISH GIRLS AT BAZAARS.
Lecture on International Characters
tics-Notcs ON the Four Presidents Of
tho French Observation-Disclosures
Of school Days.
cial Correspondence of TIE EVENING Stan.

Special Correspondence Of THE EVENING star
LONDON, July 16.
| n s was to be expected, Mr.. Goodwin
INV Smiths article, 'The Hatred Of Eng
! XStland," which appeared in the North
| III vAmerican Review for May, called forth
| WMQSIa plethora Of replies from Americans.
| Five prominent men have their say on this
matter in the June number Of the excellent
Transatlantic Review. Mr.. Andrew Carnegie's
is weak Gen. Horace Porters is witty and the
Rev. Robert Collyer's is Christian. Now Gen.
Porter ia one of the darlings of New, York So
ciety and I have no doubt that among the
people with whom he mixes he never saw any
antipathy to England. How should he? Amer
lean good society is English in manners and
tastes, and for that matter it can safely be as
serted that there is a feeling OF sympathy and
fellowship among the members Of good So
ciety all the world over quite irrespective Of
nationality. There exists kind
| OF FREEMAsoNRY AMONG THE UPPER CLASSES
ofall countries. The polishing process has
taken the angles off. 1t is not to them you
look for anything SO ugly and uncomfortable
| as hatreds. To turn to DIR. Collyer He is
Christian and would fam see no hatred anv
| where. So he takes the wish for the fact, and
| bis answer merely tends to show that there
should be no hatred of England in America. I
/ am entirely at one with him in this and as
suppose, is every one else, Mr.. Goodwin Smith
| included. But il this Englishman had entitled
bis article 1.-The Dislike of England, l, for one.
| should be prepared to indorse all he says.
read 1t with interest, and being neither English
nor American. cannot be accused Of partiality
in judging the feelings of Americans toward
the English. Setting aside American society
and only considering the feeling of the
masses, l am convinced that MIR.
Goldwln smith is in the right or
years ago, met, at the end of my stay, a WELL
known Englishman Of my acquaintance. We
| communicated our impressions to each other
and on this very subject l read in his notes: Il
| am convinced that the Americans cordially dis
like England" while he read in mine: There
Is no love for England here" Now we had
both mixed freely with all sorts and conditions
| OF Americans all over the country, and, al
though admit that the feeling should not
exist 1t was our conviction that it did. Who
that follows American politics can doubts its
/ existence. And the politicians of Washington
are not only the mouthpieces of the masses.
/ but are emInently OF the people, and this fact
goes 70 prove my assertion that the great bulk
OF the American people love not England.
PRoTEsTANTs AND CATHOLICS.
SO long the aim of the history books
which are put into the hands OF children is to
make them what is called GOOD patriots, bv
monopoly of bravery and virtue, so long will
| unchristian jeaIousies flourish even among
/ peoples of the same race and language. Re-
| llglon does not do what it might to counterfeit
the evil either. have before me an account
| OF a lecture on the Protestant Reformation
which is very edifying and to the point The
| lecturer couples Romanism with depravement
| and immortality, and to illustrate compares
| Protestant and Catholic Ireland much to the
| advantage of the former OF course. II
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for instance, that the number OF bastards in
Protestant Ireland reaches 10 per cent
of the population, while in Catholic Ireland
IL does not reach quite per cent. / am
now quoting statistics, which that worthy
might have consulted easily as myself He
INDUCES in great deal of what one might call
Protestant patriotism, and quotes freely from
a certain reverend doctor OF divinity. whose
training for a church does not appear to have
made Christian of him, to judge by his utter
ances. This is how this successor OF the apos-
Ties classes the Europeans. On the Catholic
side he places "the lazy, lying Italian, the
blgoted Spaniard the brutal Austrian, the reyo-
lutionary Frenchman."
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE
he places "the hardy Swede, the plucky Dane.
the laundering Prussian (thundering is good,
the invincible Englishman, the go-ahead Amer
lcan." Comment upon such balderdashi is quite
superiuous; but the reverend doctor will per-
| haps remember that there have been other
| thunderers besides the Prussian and vet not
Protestant; SO that one must needs doubt
whether this quality Of laundering which he
| admires in the Prussian has anything to do with
creed. Napoleon was pretty good as a thun-
| derer. IL this distributor of descriptive adjec-
tives doubts it let him refer to a history book.
where think he will find that the Napole-
| onic wars added eight hundred millions of
| pounds to the English national debt When I
| come across people with poor little hearts
about as large and as soft as nutmeg in
| capable OF loving anything which is not in
\ some sense their own, | hate them: when such
| people call themselves Christians loath them,
| Such men as this reverend judgment-de-
| livering doctor are not doing much to help
along the millennium. George Eliot knew the
| type and, l dare say, had such an one in her
minds eye when she wrote: 1T is so much
easier to make up our mind that our neighbor
Is good for nothing than to enter into all the
| details which would oblige US to modify that
opinion"
| THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
| The greatest reproach that has been hurled
at the French republic by its enemies is that it
is not amable. The aristocracy would have
| nothing to do with q regime that did not COM
mend itself by its good taste, and in their eyes
nothing could be in worse taste than austerity.
! This quality, almost q virtue in some countries
ls most distasteful to the French. Calyanisrn
never gained any hold on them, because it was
not cheerful and amiable and the republic will
be finally successful in proportion to it's ability
to make life pleasant to the people The
French like democracy very well, but they
want to preserve the traditions of luxury and
| good manners for which their country has long
enjoyed the reputation. They are fond of the
| elegancies Of life and expect brave sights for
their entertainments; pageants national fetes,
military escorts, grand equipages and ali
| things that add to the attractiveness Of their
capital The simplicity of President of the
| United States, az practiced at the White House.
would not please them at all. And this is but
natural-one does not easily break with the
| traditions of fifteen centuries.
This is what Mr.. Carnot has 30 we'll UNDER
| stood and this is what has made him so popu-
lar. He has inaugurated a gay and amiable re-
public and cleverly made the most of his two
advantages: the parsimony of his predecessor
and the attractions of the exhibition.
POPULARITY AND UNpoPULARIrY.
n. Theirs relied upon his table to nourish his
popularity. 1T will never he known" he said
one day, "how large role my cook has played
during my presidency" Marshal MacMahon,
duke of Magenta. introduced an almost royai
pomp into the Elysee. His duchess was mis-
| tress worthy of the house and capable Of look
Ing after all details. Under this presidency the
conservative republic had nothing republican
! about it but the name, and SO the old aristoc-
racy came out Of Its shell and showed itself
again iii Paris. Then followed Nj. Grevy and
his wife, two bourgeois of the pettiest bour-
geoisie, with the tastes Of their Set These good
| folks preferred n dish of teved veal N tho