The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-09-04

vt HAS been said that Dublin has
more the character of a CONT
mental than an English city; this
is true in a way, but 1t Is not
the first thing that strikes the visitor
from across the Irish sea. The most
striking thing about Dublin is that It's
architecture bears traces Of being all
of one time, says a writer In the Chris
tan Science Journal. To us who are
used to the extraordinary hOtchpotch
of London. deriving its characters
tics of brick and stone from every
conceivable century, there is something
peculiarly attractive about the street
upon street If square Georgian houses.
London always seems to be in state
of violent reaction against everything
which is called eighteenth century"
so that those parts Of London which
most resemble Dublin seem most for
eign to our conception Of London IT.
self. Perhaps II is because 1t Is Georg-
ian that Bloomsbury attracts a par
ticular type of inhabitant as often
as not a cultured foreigner, not to
be found In the urbanity of Mayfair,
nor in the banality of Mazda Vale.
And II you imagine a city where all
the streets are like Great Ormond
street and the squares like the Blooms
bury squares, you have an honest con-
ception of Dublin.
Nor does the eighteenth century ap-
pear In the houses alone; there are
those In Dublin who carry ON the ira
dition of old world courtliness which
has long become rare enough to be re-
1larkable even In Bloomsbury; Ii Is
true that they are few in number even
here, but they are sufficient to leave
a certain fragrance Of other days 10
craving room and coffee house.
Clad In Romance.
Before getting on board the bOat
at Holyhead. Great Britain will leave
memories of abject Anglesea In the
travellers mind, and when the waste
Of sea reveals ahead of him the first
contours Of Ireland, the mountains
rise up to greet him with a very diff
ferent face from that Of the fla
and cherries little island he hal
inst crossed. They are almost bia
family green, so that he must per
force murmur platitudes beneath hi
breath about the emerald isle.
Dubliners are forever conscious o
those mountains near by; they escap'
TO them as often as they can ant
endow them with a syTnbolical mean
ing. The Dublin mountains seem &
have got misplaced from the ia
west: they are that part of prlmeva
Connacht which has set itself at tn
door of Dublin in order to turn tn
heart of the Gael west rather tina
east. In the Dublin mountains Their
travel to and fro the old vagrant
With whom fingers the memory Of
Celtic poetry and from whom Syng
and Yeats and the rest have gathere
so much local color.
In Dublin itself this old cultur
fingers alongside Of the modern an
English industrialism Of the Life
and the Quaysides. ana n tne uirt
streets on the north side one ca
still come across a ballad singer wit
little group round him.
Charles Lever, when he was q
Trinity college, dressed as a balla
singer and earned 30 shillings in tn
r,ublin streets, and another and eve
more famous Trinity college studeI
earned a crown every now and the
for a street song. This young ma
was oliver Goldsmith, whose statI
now graces the entrance to the IN
yersity, than whom no man could
found more typical Of the best peric
OF Dublin's prosperity.
The Bohemian Quarter.
Today all the varied energies p
uncal literary, social, are conce
: trated into a space bounded by Ora
tor street. Stephens green. Trini