Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
ENGLISH PRovINCIaLs.
ContRasted Traits in the North ana k1zs
South OF England.

| recently began to publish upon the
characteristics that distinguish the
noxsh and south OF England is so inter-
ssting, as well as amusing, that we hope
when it is completed we shall have an
other describing the specialties of the
| East Anglican, the western man, and,
above all, the man of the Midlands and
| the Londoner, in some ways, the most
| separate of them all. Owing, partly, we
! fancy, to accident, and partly to the
marked opposition between their poll
| tics, the contrast between the northern
man, and especially the Yorkshire man,
with his self-assertion, his indepen-
dence and his republicanism, and the
man of the south, with his comparative
smoothness, his readiness to obey when
he is led and his tendency to untruth,
has struck the general imagination.
| The intense self-esteem of the north
ern, especially as to his own virtues, his
consciousness of his ego and his raci-
ness of speech, arising from his care
lessness of giving offense, his general
masterfulness, in fact, have increased
his perception until it has gradually
peryaded all literature, and men who
never consciously spoke to a northern
accept John Browdie as typical, which
he is, though only of the good side of
his countrymen. The real John Browdie
has a grand difficulty in forgiving, is
apt when he encounters a stranger
mentally to smell him as a dog does be-
fore he will accord him amity, and, like
/! the Scotchman. whom he is in some
ways so unlike, never quite forgives
him for not having been born north of
the Trent. The best description of him
in literature is perhaps Currer Bells
Mr.. Yorbe.
The southerner is far less dominant,
though he has tenacity of his own;
his hatred is perhaps meaner, but less
vindictive, as if his memory were not
quite so perfect, and he has much less
felicity i'll expressing himself, being es-
sentially, we fancy-though, curiously
enough, this is not apparent in itera-
ture-a less humorous man. Charles
Dickens, the greatest of modern Eng
lish humorists, was essentially, by
birth and mental habitude, of the south.
Even in his religion there is differ
ence, the northerner inclining to a We
hement Professionalism, the southerner
when not partly Celtic, being either a
strongly convinced but not vehement
professor or deeply tinctured with
secularist Indifference. In intellectual
ability there is little to choose between
them, nor, curiously enough, in the bad
popularity of cunning or the good PEI
culiarity of adroitness. But the north
erner is, if we omit the Londoner for
moment from the calculation, decide
" the more efficient man, partly,
doubt, because of his dominance,
cheney depending mainly on the pow
of securing obedience, but partly
because he cannot bear the sense,
10 himself, of not doing his work
The southerner is more content
Just as efficient as circumstances
quire, being in disposition, though
always in fact, comparatively a
being. 4 world of Yorkshirelnen v
not be pleasant world, or of Wilt
men a stirring one.
DR.. Jessopp, who knows them
implies in all his writings that
tives of East Anglia are on q
the worst product among
England, and in someArespe
ment cannot De
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northerner or the s
southern man, the ty
tends to be, like his
ancestor, boor, wit
acridity, often imp
ness rather too sci
selfishness, in sod
andes often dc
spitefulness.
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nor walk ten
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cial tone to his
people tends to
natural virago.-
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