The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-10

adventures would be to spoil the story for the reader. We may at least note that they are devised by the authors with rather more of in- genuity than would ordinarily be ex- pected in the circumstances. The pretty Title tale goes with "a vim and in it's light, sentimental way makes very pleasant reading. It Is to be re- corded with relief, too, that the auto mobile plays only a casual and quite insignificant part in The Princess Virginia.
 ENGLAND AND THE ENGTIsH; AN INTERPRETATION by Ford Maddox Hl;a ,i{. auegifer; published by Mcclure, Judds
 In starting in this very interesting volume MT Hueffer, already well known as tho author of a brilliant book on "Rosettt" and another on the Pre- Raphaeltes, tells how he fell a. wondering one day while walking in St James Park why New York was unlike London and yet how it was that true Londoncr feels 50 much at home in New York. Here he gives the reason: Philadelphia and Boston are small enough, old enough -crystallized enough to be provincial-New York is big enough--new enough--easy going enough-to be metropolitan For a metropolis, though it may contain a fragment of building set tip by Julius Caesar, Is always young; truly pro- vincial city, though 1t may have been founded only yesterday, is always old. It is old because 1t has lived long enough to have learned all the lesson it is going to learn and has evolved the sort of man 1t is always going to evolve. In this sense London, though 1t has been where 1t Is for couple of thousand years, Is infinitely younger than Philadelphia, and So Is New York, though New York is, say three and Philadelphia only two hundred years old"
 And there you have it. "rhe London CT walking along his beloved streets can't for @ moment be sure of the type of the next man he will meet The New Yorker being drawn along In his troll ley car can't either. The Londoner can't ever be certain that his most familiar landmark Is not going to be pulled down to make room for something much taller; neither can the citizen of New York The Hotel Cecil might have to go tomorrow to make room for some new tendency--so might the Flat iron building. It Is that 1t Is that sense of being in world where things change In tune with the change of the Spirit of the Age-it is that fine and exciting sense that unites New York and London. It Is the feeling that Bos- ton Or Manchester. England, have solid filed that differentiates them. For there is a Bostonian; there is very decidedly a Manchester man-.but there is not any Londoner or any New Yorker"
 In London as in New York there is a grand conglomeration of peoples; foreigners of about all nations are there The two cities are alike in this Then, too, as to the signs: T know whole districts of London where. al the signs in the shop windows are in. comprehensible to me; just as, walking down Broadway, I was overwhelmed by the fact that every shop sign ap- peared to bear name ending in baum or stein. :"
 ATr du tk, ka1i f,, his interesting way wherein the Lon doner does not quite feel at home in New York. In one thing New York lacks "the augustness of size of Lon don" It isn't far from 4Srd street to the Battery; 1t isn't far from river to river. But think of Piccadnlyl The miles and miles and miles of streets through the city through the Mile End road, the East End, the docks! Think of the miles and miles of streets through Knightsbridge; through Ken sington through Hammersmith, Chis- wick, Kew, Richmond-who knows where 1t ends? And right down to Linpsneld and right up to Tendon The American won't know these vast nesses; he won't ever--and perhaps he's to be ongratulated--know just the feel of it, the pressure all around him, of endless miles of humanity; something of which he is only subconsciously aware, as he is of the pressure of the atmosphere"
 London is the world town, not be- cause of It's vastness; 1t Is vast be- cause of its assimilative powers, be- cause 1t destroys all race characteris- tics. insensibly and, as it were, anaes- thetically A Polish Jew changes into an English Hebrew and then into a Londoner, without any legislative en- actments, without knowing anything about it. You may watch, say, a Der lin bunker, arrogant. provincial, un- licked, unbearable to any other Ger man, turnig after year or two into presentable and only just not typica Londoner, subdued, quiet in the mat. ters of collars, ties, coat, voice and backbone, and naturally extracting g sir from a policeman. London will dc ot1 i,,,1oroonHfflts Apd tr