New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-21

and makes some clever hits about what ne sees
on the way. Naturally the French Canadians
preserving in Quebec the France OF Louis NV
interested him greatly. They also amused MIN
somewhat to Judge from this story he tells OF
Frenchman:
The day left Montreal met him in the nan
Of the Windsor Hotel. mufied up In wni'e
woollen hooded tuhic with red SASH arounu t, ,s
waist and on his head a woollen cap: WIN ~, us
tassel jauntily hanging on MS shouiue''
costume was completed by immense thlcK s'ocM
ings and knickerbockers, and in his mana ne car
red snow-shoes and an alpenstock-'hc iesu'''
snow-shoe!ng get-up s,,,o
"Ahar' said /; you are off on an expedition
over the snow? .oo
Not l." he replied; and his good, open race
beamed with fun. Il am going " se' P"''0
graphed." ..., r,rosoor
The author criticises the Australian colonistS
good humoredly for many fol!ies. but he speaks
with deeper feeling about what he regards az
their prevailing tendency to be bgots and Phari-
SECS and also accuses them Of being excessively
Incorporate. He tells numerous good stories
about the Australians way Of patroniz!ng all
the rest Of the world. They said that Nine
Bernhard was mot bad but was much over
praised" An ex-shopkeeper who had become a
Colonial Minister OF National Defence. on going
10 London. was taken TO see the fortncations.
He criticised them with great freedom and ex-
planned to the naval and military experts no"
easy It would be to take London.
Australia has always had the reputation OF
being a land where everything was topsy
hut certainly nobody before ever thought Of it
as a place where wishes were horses never
theless there beggars do ride. Witness this
story:
Every one rides in Australia-the shop-boy,
.ho he telegraph boy the lamp
lighter the bcggar, even.
remember having been accosed one day near
Musselbrook by a man on horseback. VINO asked
for aims. .
Does that horse belong to you?" I said to
him. ~
Certainly" he replied why mott"
II have nothing 10 say against it,. / re)o!neo'
"only envy YOU. that Is all. / should ike To ne
rich enough to keep horse of my own ike
you"
The French lecturer visited NewZealand.
Tasmania and South Africa on his journey, and
gives some readable "reminiscences OF thos"
places He is often superficial, often mistaken
IN his Judgments sometimes smart before he Is
lust but he is always interesting and almost
always conspicuous for saving common-sense.
The Duchess Of buckingham and Chandos has
travelled over part OF the same ground de
ecribcd by Max ORel In November. 1892, she
in company with Miss Hilda Wolfe Murray. set
out by way Of Gibraltar and Suez for Australia
and returned To England through California
and New-York visiting on the way the CoIun-
blan Exhibition. In Australia she was enter
tanned by IN, colonial governors ana other peo-
pie Of social prominence. and she detailed the
incidents Of her visits and also describes the
country which she passed through Her
glimpses Of America are merely bird s-eye-
views She does not attempt to give any I'M
preeslons Of the people. but simply sets down.
In letters to her friends. an account or her
travels with descriptions Of the persons she
meets and A few Of the interesting things she
observed Naturally with knowledge founded
only on views from 4 window she falls into
curious errors. For instance. she says that the
prairie about Sacramento is carpeted with
vlo.et and yellow flowers. and adds. the large
yellow bu,tercup Is the flower Of California"
She evidently mistook the yellow poppy which.
with the luplne Is So thick In California fields
they are no, praries Likewise the Duchess
saw the Liberty Bell in Chicago. and gathered
the information that its title to reverence was
the fact that II was the first bell sounded after
the War Of Independence was over These
letters are readable and 1t is very easy 70 see
why they were written. They must have given
pleasure to their recipients. II is not SO easy 10
see why they were published. unless 1t was
that the Duchess might enjoy the pleasures Of
authorship The publication being once deter
mined there is NJ fault 10 find with the result.
Binding papeI typography are all excellent
only the name Of the Russian ship Dcm!tri
Donskol should have been properly spelled
Mrs Bishop is an lndetatigable traveller. M
land Is too Inaccessible for her 10 reach, and she
has the faculty Of taking the people as she finds
them living with them. and entering into their
lives and thoughts In her latest book she re-
counts the Incidents OF Journey begun al Rawul
Plndi-yar In the north OF the Punjab-across
Kashmir to Srngar. to Len. and about British
Tibet and ther. back to the railroad and civza-
ton at Simla Part Of the way she was accom-
pa MED by a most engaging villain, Csman Shah.
an Afghan a fantasticaly dressed drum-major
who ovcrawcd ana robbed he natives behind his
mistresss back. lie vanIshes from the scene
quite heroically at Leh
on the second morning. was taking sketch
Of Usman shah. He was recognized both
by the joint Commissioner and the Chief of Police
as mut.neer and murderer, and was marched
out OF Leh ! was asked to look over my bag,
been faithful in his way ard later found that
nothing was missing. he "a brutal ru0ian.
one OF a band Of irre9ulars sent by the Mahara-
Jah ~ Kashmir 20 garrison the fort at Leh.
From 1t they used to descend on the town. plum
der the bazaar. insult the women take all they
wanted without payment. and when one OF their
number was being tried for offence, they
dragged the Judge out OF court and beat
him. After holding Leh In terror for some time
the British Commissioner obtained their removal.
II was. however. AT the fort at the Indus bridge.
related before. that the crime OF murder was
committed still there something almost
grand In the defiant attitude OF the fantastic
swashbuckler. as standing outside the bunga-
low. he faced the British Commissioner to him
the embodiment Of all earthly power. and the
chief II police. and dened them Not an inch
would ne stir Till the wazir gave him a coDlie to
carry his baggage He had been acquitted OF the
murder ne said land though killed the man. II
was according 10 the custom Of my country-he
gave an insult which could only be wiped OUT
in blood" The guard dared not touch him and
he went to the wazlr. demanded coolie. and got