New-York tribune., 1902-10-26

came to realize that the work. as a 49, ne
hdruiy worth pubhcatlon 1t contains no T..
portant facts IL is not literature We r.
ways deprecated the resurrection. after a.
/ thors death. of pages which he did NOT -.
see mt to give to the world. The cases arc -
In which such action is justifable BUT sin.s
this journal of Southey's has got itself n,tn.s
| we cannot ignore il. and we must confess g..
while it is decidedly unworthy Of associattae
with his best books it is Of the veIiest intsr".
| as a souvenir of the man.
| He left Ramsgate for Ostend accorona,,as -
| his wife and eldest daughter. and fr,ans
Henry Roster. There IS quaint note ON ~
| Southey's condition at the start She was :. ,n
health and worse spirits when they left hon
| "The best hope / now had" remarks her b,0
band. was that sea sickness, with a total ana
frequent change Of air, scene and circunstaro.
| would remove what began to appear y -
formidable maIady." The sufferer disannointa,
him. She wholly escaped sea sickness OF
Southey himself had the opportunity Of tastins.
| its efficacy. THE little food which 1 took ~
says. was taken in commendaro for the Asba.
| and faithfully rendered up to them" They mo,
| friends on shore, with whom they travelled w.
wonder by the way. if Mr.. Nash" an artist in
the party, was the Frederick Nash whom Turra-
praised as the finest architectural painter of nj,
day. That individual visited Switzerland T.,
1916. and Southey's friend left him at the end n,
their trip to go to Paris. which he may have in
tended to visit the way to the Alps. II co,,s
not have been Joseph Nash, the painter Of thu
interior view of Bruges Cathedral. which Wa ro
produce, for he was not old enough at the tiroa
This is one of several points which should ba,
been Illuminated by editorial treatment in thu
present volume. SOuthey proceeded from Oste,a
to Bruges. and. travelling sometimes in canal
oft In
Client, Brussels. the field Of Waterloo. Atx-la-
Chapelle. Antwerp. YpreJ and dozen other
points Of interest before he reached Calais Iata
in October, and embarked in the packet fo,
home The tour lasted for about a month
The journal abounds in data of the most nm
sale character. SOUthey had a keen eye for tha
little practical things of life and was as faith
full. and almost indiscriminate in reeOrdinc
them as a schoolboy writing in his first diary
Much of this detail. however has certain in
terest as showing what the Low Countries were
like nearly century ago. and what travellers
especially had TO deal with at that time The
roads We're often bad, but the inns as often
atoned for this being clean and comfortable
The bread cheese, butter and wine were good
everywhere. though in the matter of wine he
records one fragrant roguery- THE bottles are
manufactured he says. in so rascaIIy a shape
that the buIging bottom defrauds you nearly Of
one-third OF what the bottle appears to hold"
The complaint has a familiar sound. He speaks
again and again of the numerous wells, seeing in
their great number an indication of wealth. but
he adds that they mostly yielded poor water.
He met with none that satisfied hi.a until in the
village of Assche. ii was presented TO his party
in very long glasses of curious form, as deli
cacy." He tempted at Client by some
oysters Of excellent physiognOmy. for there is a
ply ysiognomy in oysters" but he refrained when
his landlord warned him that they might pos
sess some poisonous quality, Charges that
would to-day seem insignificant sOrely troubled
his thrifty soul He had to pay 40 francs for
two carriages in which he and ten others
carried with all their baggage, distance Of
thirty miles, and. though this seemed reason
able when compared with the expense of post
ing in England. he was assured that he had
been greatly imposed upon. II seemed to him
that he was being made 10 pay. with all Eng
Hshmen abroad. for the wealth of his country,
when he was charged II francs for good din
ner with good wine and dessert, served TO his
party of nine and 10 two servants and two
guides There is a very modern touch in his
passage on the French custom house at COST
Cappeue where THE smaller trophies which be-
Ionged to us wrapped up among our
things that there was little chance Of their being
seen unless every separate article suspi-
ciously examined'-a testimony to the fact that
a Willingness to beat the customs" is no new
thing Late in the volume Southey remarks
that during our whole journey We have seen