New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-08

divers coaching trips. He intends to try Engnsh
country life for few months
Alasl Another Bashkirtsef book! 1t Is TO be
another compilation from the letters and Journals
OF the young woman and will include drawings ana
studies by her. There may be people who continue
to feel an interest In this morbid hystenca posing
and utterly selfish Russan-but surely they are ho'
many.
There is very amusing paper in /" The July Arena"
IN which under the title OF The Land Of Contrasts
Mr. J. F. Muirhead endeavors TO give his Impressions
n, America His most abiding impression is. he DC
clares that there is no abiding impression at ALL as
the facts on which to-day he builds "a theory III
Massachusetts, are shattered tomorrow by the id'V'
he encounters IN Michigan The United states seems
10 him pre- eminently the 81 Land Of Contrasts te
land of stark staring and stimulating inconsistencies
81 have hailed with delight the democratic spirit
displayed I'm the greeting OF my friend ana MyseH
by the porter Of a hotel as you fellows ana 'heh
had the cup OF pleasure dashed from my iiPs pS
being told BY the porter that tne o'her sehuo
man would attend TO my baggage? have beeh
parboiled with salamanders who seemed to ma no
Inconvenience in a temperature VI 80 degrees
md have been nigh frozen to death in opcn-alr
drives In which the individuals seemed perfectly
comfortable. American travellers grumble tor 1T
least dissatisfied; American grumbles-Amer1can
travellers are dissatisfied II the vevetpe carpets NJ
their hotels are not least two Inches thick, ana
vet endure without a murmer the hideOus noises OF
a steam heating apparatus which ceases its bubble
and squeak only TO emulate the exertions OF AeXan-
der the Coppersmith. Americans Invent the most
delicate forms OF machinery for their manufacturing
processes and hack their meat with svepated hoop
iron knives hardly calculated to tackle any haioer
than butter. Men appear at the theatre IN orthouoA
evening dress while the tall and eXasperatihg mats
Of the ladies' who accompany them would seem 10
indicate a theory OF street toilette. From newborn
to Buffalo l am whsked through the air at the rate
of fifty or sixty miles an hour; In california
travelled a train on which the ehsHcer snoV
rabbits from the locomotive and the fireman picked
them up in time 10 Jump on the baggage-car al the
rear end Of the train. At Santa Barbara visited an
old mission church and convent which WED In quaint
pcturesqueness with anything in Europe; but aas
The old monk who showed us round though wearing
the regulation gown and knotted cord had replaced
his sandals by elastc-sided boots and covered MS
tonsure with what call chummy, but Whch l"
correct Bostonese is, believe, Derby
In his early youth ar. Gladstone W. te poetry
and poetry very poor of its kind. Curious delivers
In the volumes of the Elton Miscellany" Will find en-
shrned there these first efforts OF clever boy Ills
Ode to the Shade Of Wat Tyler" is, perhaps. the
hest OF his
"Shade of him whose valiant tongue
On high the song OF freedom sung
Shade OF him whose mighty soul
Would pay taxes on his poll;
Though swift as lightning civic sword
Descended thy fated head,
The blood of EnCland's bOldcst poured,
And numbered Tyler with the dead!
astln may thy spirit flap lis wings.
And peer and prelatc tremble, 100.
In dread of nightly interview! Nd
With eyes that like thy FORCES gleam,
Lest Tyler's voice and Tylers hand