New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-16
HOLMES IN ENGLAND.

HIS HUNDRED DAYS"-HIs INTERCOURSE
WITH GREAT PEOPLE"-THE DERBY
AND THE PRINCE OF WALES
HIS SERVICES TO HIS COUNTRY
HOLMES AND MR.. GLADSTONE.
London. November 1.
Dr. Holmes has told the story OF his Hundred
DAYS in Europe" with the genial simplicity and
frankness which were characteristic OF him. The
book will remain an example or the freedom
(Which NAV be used without offence in social
chronicles II there be good feeling and tact a.
we'll as freedom Nobody on this side ever did
take offence although names were freely used
and Dr. Holmes set down his opinions OF places
and sometimes Of persons. and recorded without
any foolish shame his social triumphs. Whether
ANYBODY took offence in America ] never heard
nor whether the admirable old man was told that
he loved Lord" That discriminating remark
is often made touching any American who 10
supposed to be speaking terms with anybody
unhappy enough to have inherited title.
II would not have troubled Holmes even hadN
been made about him. lie was a man of the
world who accepted the social conditions amid
which ne found himself, and never suspected It
n be his duty to Try to alter them, or to hold
himself sourIy aloof from the titled classes be.
cause they happened to be titled, or to declam
against them and their cOrOnets and other dis
tjnctjops There never was truer American
and vet there never was an American who dur.
ing a period so brief. was on better terms With
the aristocracy Of England, or liked them better
and they him. lie has put II all INTO his book
His pleasure bubbles W on every page There
ola ndc
one Of which it would be delight to visit; andI
should hardly know with when OF them 10 be-
gin
He has set down his impression OF several OF
the twenty. one just openly as the other It
seems never % have occurred 70 him that there
was any reason why he should conceal his inter-
course with one set Of people rather than
another He mentions all sorts of persons In the
same toue and with the same ease a. Z he were
an a level with all: as he was. except when he
vas above them NJ. Gallon ana Nj. Locker
Nv Stafford Brooke and Morell Mackenzie. Lord
Ro,hschlid and Lady Rosebery Nj. Gladstone
and the Prince Of Wales. Mr.. TyndsiL Mn
phaps. the Princess Louise. tho Austrian An.
h..sado~ and hundreds more ~ every rank ard
uosltion form part Of the procession which the
/ good u,c.or marshais before us. IN private he
oh~s,ved. as every well-orcd man does, the rules
IF social precedence In print INC sentiment d
human equally is the one which asserts Itself
When he goes 10 the Derby he finds himssl,
I'm the Must II the great people. who were
all very natural. and as much al their ease az
the rest Of the world. The Prince 'of Walss
Is o. lively temperament. and very cheer
~ aspect-a Young girl would call nm Jolly, as
well as nice" And he has a compliment al
WAYS ready for he Princess. the lovely youth
ful-iooling gracious Alexandra and another
/ for the always aifablc and amiaoe Princess
Louise" who probahl, had more real sympa-
rms. with the man Of letters ard Of books than
any ~ her brothers and sisters. He did not
/ disdain to make-though he does not say so IN
his hook-a courtier-ike speech 70 the Prince
/ Of Wales who asked him whether he had ever
seen the Derby before sir answered 'he
Youthful septuagenarian. "a saw the Derby Just
seven years before Your Royal Hlghhess was
born" And he sums up by saying:
"All these grand personages. not being on e1'
hibition. but off enjoying themselves. just "
| was and as other people We're seemed very
! much like their fellow mortas. 1t is resy
easier 10 feel at hom1 with the highest people
IN IN. land than wiki the awkward commoner
vino WAS knighted yesterday. When My LORD
| and Sir Paul came into the Club when Gola'
smith tells us Of the hilarity Of the evening was
instantly checked. The entrance of d.sni'ary
like the present Prince OF Wales would no' Ha''
spoiled the fun Of the evening II there Is Ah'
one accomplishment specially belonging
nrinces il is that Of making the persons tney
meet feel at their ease
II was this feeling OF ease and this sentiment
! OF equality subject only 10 certain conveh'ona
! rules and usages which made his welcome IN
England so general and so cordial To say 'hA'
! he cringed 10 nobody. and that he patro"1ea
nobody is almost to imply that he WAS capa''
| OF either which most assuredly NJ WAS "o"
Equally Incapable was he OF the notion. wherein
| lies the essence of vugarism. that 'ha" '.
woman because he or she belong TO the Classes
g., ,.s. q man or woman or less one Of the grea'
| human family: OF which even the classes are
rsmbsrs II he had ever used the word snoo-
| bisbness he would have used IL or the ''i"'
! who took or who implied that view The ON! INNS
! ~ which Holmes was intolerant was into.erA"'''
and OF that variety Of Intolerance when tninA'
itself democratic not less than of others. nv
says:
7 hesitated al first about printing names III lu.
hut when | remembered that We received nolh'n:
but the most OVERLOOKING hospitality ana the M NJ
! considerable kindness from all we met iei' 49, 49,
! that I could not offend by telling my readers
who the friends were that made England se''
, ond home 10 us
Not even though the friends bore some OF Inv
greatest names in England. 1t was not PAR
Of England but all England that our American
! Puritan thought Of as second home. lie hdu
belief | am sure just one. that his visit H"s"'
| draw England and America a little nearer l"
| gether He spoke OF ii as "A source or happ'ne''
| 10 him during his remaining days. lie fouhu !"
IL also what he calls higher source OF sa'isiA''
! ton:
II the kindness shown me strengthens ~ W,
slenderest link that binds us in affection 20 t"a
ancestral country which IL, and trust H'wa'
will be TO her descendants. dear Mother IN" :.
land that alone iustifies my record Of IL. ana !"
| think il is SO is more than reward enough
rl,,,.c. aIsa h. has sIrunk q tone nOte-perndPs