The sun., 1895-05-19

He likes that square for its "sober Dutch
American air, as though part OF the Hague
had been put IN the electric chair and cleo
trocuted into citizenship Of the republic"
He admires the "trim, spare, and white
moustached" men he sees on the north side
OF the square; the south side 10 "as squalid
as the worst OF Soho" Tho New York
young man Of fashion does not impress the
poet as an unqualified success;
-somehow. notwithstanding ali his efforts to Be-
Eneiish he never quito effects It. Either his hat 10
too curly. his too long. or his trousers over
pressed. He looks like advertisement for fash
ionnblo Manchester tailor. and represents the wide
difference between sentlemanly and gentleman
Tho gded youth here see to be the transition stage
between the cowboy and the masherI they talk very
low. between their teeth; they call each other 'oid
man. and describe the theatre last night a. tho rot
tencst show but next minute ont loaps the cowboy
either manners talk and the temporary illusion
IL gone"
The American girl seems to the poet to
have every attractive quality but charm.
The fact is," he explains, that from child
hood it's nobody's place to put the soft pedal
on her." To talk to her IN like talking to
the electric light; she Is all blare and f1zz."
She lacks " the cool, delicious, English shad-
ows, which reticence alone can give" Tho
most interesting Of our women to this poet
are the married women, from twenty-six to
forty They have travelled more. read more,
and thought moro than their English cous-
ins; "nor do they let their children, in Eng
lish fashion, come between you and their
conversation
"who has not talked to the young English matron.
and Just you getting her mind noted the dis
tant look in her eye which tells you she II wondering
hat hnr Chl lhrau VIII
bed yet, BxILH has had her milk Now, the Amsrt-
can matron never does that. When she 10 with you
she makes tabuia OF children and household du.
ties and gives you her undivided attention and inteL
ligence Not that she cares much about listenins n
srule she only talk Of herself her experiences
and thoughts h she, to my mind. less agreeable
companion for that. On tho whole, have been dis
appointed in the looks Of the American women.
don't think you half the number of pretty faces in
the streets tLst you may sec any nne summer morn
ing in Bond and Piccadiliy, Of what ono may
call really charming faces, one secs scarcely any.
There arc plenty OF pretty women In New YORK. or
course. but they have rather q knowing look. from
which tho higher type of Enghsh face il happily free"
The last days Of April come and the peo-
pie in the boarding house opposite the poets
quarters in East Thirty second street are
moving out. Now we get another view Of
the unusual Briton who has been affecting
to be so critical, but is really 80 sentimental;
quite as emotional as II his name were DE
AMIcIs or GApTIER:
"The house opposite mo that yesterday was 90 full
of life and movement looks blank and black
Just at this tho last cabful has driven on.
shall never that house again. II ever do. without
emotion; other faces. other figures at the
windows without thinking or the charming head that
used sometimes to be turned my way, the charming
lips that sometimes used TO smile at across the
gray asphalt She only needed crescent IN her black
har to be JEAN GoUJoss DIANA In the Lovre. she had
two little brothers, and when came homo to dress
for dinner. and the gas lit, used to her romp
ing with them the folding beds of tho American
lodging house.
"oh, Thirty second street. how nat and prosaio II
sounds and yet how full Of poetry to mel"
Oh, prtmdperd, oh, prtnternps, oh, Fstlh-
Ting, oh, Thirty-second street, perhaps this
is no Englishman, after all.