Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-17

I ONDON, Aug. 7.-Cosmo Hamil-
ton, the author of Dukes Son"
and various other novels and
plays, has been giving his impress
sions of Americans in London in a
popular weekly journal, He goes TO
the Savoy hotel, he says, to STUDY theih'
"It is q very museum OF curlos, ne
writes "and the quaintest and most
curious of them all hall from Columbia
1t is too delicious to watch these prlih-
eval and precocious creatures-the W.
men in the most elaborate clothes ana
the men In the weird garments OF
Broadway--at feeding time. MOST Oh
the women are ample, even luxuflaht:
They have much the face and arms Oh
rowing men. In bland and chlld-lhe
way they pretend to be bored or plase'
They affect what they imagine 10 DC
the airs of English fashionable women
and murmur peremptory things TO their
menkind after the manner OF Processes
in the novels of American writer's. They
are very fond of using French words
such as gassoug' frappe,' 'au graf
tang and 'Biliy' and they make the
use of a straw in long glass thing
| to practise in private"
Cosmo Hamilton has some little repu-
tation as q writer of witty and ell
| grammatic things. A man who is al
| ways striving to scintillate runs great
! risk of making a fool of himself, The
| truth of this statement Cosmo Hamil-
| ton proceeds to demonstrate in this
| fashion.
COSMOS SARCASM.
"They are really very kind, simple
| people, the Americans. l have met
many during the season. They strike
| one as always trying very hard TO be
| what they are not. I mean civilized.
That is what makes them so delicious
| ly amusing. But for their color they
are really nothing but niggers."
That is something which nobody has
ever said before. And to say something
| which nobody has ever said before Is
what the professional smart man Is
| ever striving after. But obviously the
statement needs some explanation.
ut sounds unkind, even horrible
adds Cosmo Hamilton, but ! mean It
metaphorically, In the sense that they
are affected and dominated by noise
| color, ragtlme airs. melodrama. drums,
II almost said tomtoms-and brass
| They frankly do not understand sub
| tety or sarcasm. Their humor Is the hui
NOR OF the Niger and yet they are Won
| derfully hypere-prim In some of their
| notions They are, Is far as my knowl-
| edge of them goes-and OF course I
| have met only the women who have be-
come leaders OF English society and
their brothers-just unsophisticated ma
| tives of q raw young country who
! firmly believe that they were the first
Inhabitants OF the EARTH"
The foregoing, presumably, Is a sam
pie of what Cosmo Hamilton regards
as "subtlety and sarcasm" II Is sim
! ply silly rot. But because Cosmo Ham
! ilton writes it he gets paid probably as
much as SIS column for IL. And the
temptation to write rot when you can
get that price for Il must be great
Still calling Americans niggers is about
the limit. IL Cosmo Hamilton has any
regard for his health he will not repeat
that observation in the hearing of any
OF them. II may pass muster as humor
| In England. but in America 1t is cassi-
fed as fighting talk
SOUVENIR HUNTER.
The voice of the souvenir hunter Is
| heard In the land, and simultaneously
with the discovery that caxton first
edition OF THE Golden Legend" Is mys-
| terlously missing from the Manchester
| Public Library comes a pathetic vail
from the rector of Stoke Pogis. There
a youth-one of a party OF three Amer
| lean tourlsts-succeeded, though hotly
pursued by the aged caretaker, in car
| rying off notice to visitors which
hung In the churchyard. with their
booty the entire party rode OFF In tri-
Jump In their motor car. As trophy
notice TO visitors to refrain from
vandalism does not seem to be of par
ticularly thrilling interest; but the
| American who arrives late in the sea-
son, when the years supplies of Van
| Dycks, Druidical remains and ancestral
| homes OF George Washington are ex-
hausted. must be content with poorer
game.
THE FIRST INTERVIEW.
| II is generally supposed that tho
| Interview" Is an American invention,
but French literary journal now as
serts that Il was d Freedman who
! published the first interview. The In
! teryiewer was Herault dc Sechelles, the
| revolutionlst. a new collected edition Of
whose works have Just appeared. His
subject was Button, the great natur-
alist; the date, 1855. No single note
OF the modern newspaper Is lacking
! In II. II does not appear as an episode
In a book OF travel. like the many I'M
terylews" with Voltaire that figure In
the relations OF the voyages OF eigh-
tenth century grand tourists. The
writer went 10 Montbard for no other
purpose than to get his interview, he
| came straight back 10 Paris and wrote
Il out, I'm the frank, fippant Journal
istlc style that is now 80 popular, He
ended his life on the guillotine--"a fact"
one can picture Carlyle saying, "signl-
ficant OF much
ou1DA's SHORTCOMINGS
Among literary people everywhere
OF course, much sympathy Is felt with
poor oulda, who has fallen into such