The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15


"TransatIantic Traits" -O Our
"Rest and Brightest Men as "a
Whole Are Our Regular Politi-
cians''--"Honest American News
papers Do Not Exist"
Correspondence The st. Paul Globe.
BOSTON. May 12.-"The Yankees are
nation of clerks; they know of no en-
trance into life but the bridesmaids,
and firmly believe that there is no adj
mission to heaven except on business"
These kindly words come from Trans
atlantic Traits" a new book by Martin
Morris, the son of that rather grotesque
creation of sovereign power, life-peer,
and they come at the especially happy
moment when the Yankees, under
which name Mr.. Morris groups all the
people. of all the states, are showing no
small Indifference to trade and are pre-
pairing to fight for a principle. Pos
sibly, foreseeing that his remark might
not be received with pure delight, he
explains that Americans understand
nothing but gross adulation and fiat
terry, and that criticism or discrimina-
ton, however -(sic) slight and super
fetal, is invariably regarded as rude
and unwarrantable."
These two statements are mated with
third, hardly less amazing, that
there is not in the United States a
better brighter, or more honest body
OF men as whole than the regular
politicians" and that "they are the
best class of citizens the republic has
nrO6npa6 IT n nd no fha
business men and millionaires who do
not go into politics "are dull men,"
Good business men are dull and
greedy" those Of a better class are
like honest American newspapers
they do not exist" says Mr.. Morris.
Perhaps 1t Is unnecessary to explain
that his theory Of the American poll
tician was bestowed upon him by GER
tain New York exemplars, and that he
is one Of those Irishmen always fer
vently. desirious Of being mistaken for
Englishmen, and accustomed to regard
themselves as irresistible. His convic-
ton seems to have been rudely shocked
for he has no good words for the Amer
lean girl, and finds the behavior of her
countrymen in her presence is ''servile."
mo one else can talk" he says, "be-
cause she never stops"
Possibly these girls, whom he met,
used tha means put into their hands by
God and nature to protect themselves
against hearing too many of his opin-
Ions, but upon the whole his American
girl would be a very good companion
for the American soldier recently de-
scribed by his countrynan, John M.
Robertson, as more anxious to shoot
down his unarmed fellow citizens in a
street brawl than to meet a foreign
enemy. Max O'Rell was not always
amiable, but the sham Irishman was
t-,fvr cn1f
travellers in the United States.
Paul Kruger and his Times by F.
Reginald Statham, to be published by
the L. c.. Page company, about May
90 is even more favorable to the presi-
dent of the South African republic than
Poulteney Bigelow's papers in Harper's
Magazine. 1t is political, and not a
personal history, although it incidental
ly mentions that Mr.. Kruger's present
wife is the niece of his first spouse, and
that he has sixteen children and 104
other descendants. The author finds
Mr.. Brice's Impressions" a misch. ev-,
GUS book, and looks upon Cecil Rhodes
as a plotter Of wonderous and mahg-
nant skill. To an impartial observer
it seems as if Mr.. Kruger were no
more scrupufous when -contending for
the rights Of his people than Mr. Rhodes
when working for his stockholders, but
property calling itself home and coun-
try will always seem more worthy OBJ
Ject of devotion than property which
is smerely moneymeker, and the
rough, untutored president seems a fin
er figure than the shIewd astuta finan-
cier with his easily assumed courtly
manners, and his tireless energy. Mr.
Statham is quite sure that Great Brit
ain has not only been systematically
deceived in the matter of the South
African mines, but also in regard to
political issues, and his view Of the
Jameson raid is entirely Dutch Boer.
That he is right on the former point
nobody can doubt who reads the Satur-
day Review and sees the deliberate
misleading art of it's financial columns,
but there are many English influences
| not Rhodesian in South Africa.
The L. c. Page company will issue
some of its fiction almost Immediately,
first of all ''In Kings Houses" by Mrs.
Julia C. r. Dorr, of whom excellent
obituary notices were published last
autumn, somewhat to her surprise:
Mere Folly" by Mrs. Marie Louise
Pool, a novel just issued in L'ppin-
formerly issued by Messrs. Stone &;
Kimball; TN a Dyke Shanty," and
"Boss and Other Dogs" Rose a Char
lite" by Marshall Saunders, and The
Making of Sairt," by Mr.. w. Somer-
set Mangham, will appear. Later ccme
Omar. the Tent Maker" by Mr.. Ma
than Haskell Dole; 1.-THE Rad to Paris"
by Mr.. r. N. Stephens, and THE Reju-
venation Of Miss Semaphore," by
Hal Godfrey. Bill, the Dancer by
James Blythe Paltten; Gross Trails"
by Victor Waite, and To Arms" illus
t,ated, by Mr.. IT. C. Edwards, will fcl-
low in rapid succession.
In the fall will come 1.-THE French
Court and Society and 1.-The Court of
the Tuileries," by Charlotte Lady Jack
son, both in two volumes These are
gift books in two volumes, and COM
| plete set of the five works of the au-
thor, three of which have been issued
in former years. A new library edition
OF Fitzgerald's "Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam' will include all three of the
Fitzgerald versions in one cover, and
will have a photogravure portrait Of
| Fitzgerald, and will be u.nerwise illus
| trated with photographers from orig
inal drawings. The American edition of
| Edward Heron-Allen's translation OF
| Omar will be published by the Page
| company. This edition is a fac-simile
| of the Persian manuscript in the Bod
| leian, with transcription into modern
| Persian characters. and is to be bound
1 in Oriental fashion. Even If one do
not read Persian, and it is said that
there are persons in Chelsea and Read
| ing who do not it will be pleasant to
|