New-York tribune., 1922-02-26

That is the and substance Of Mr. Gals
worthy's story, and he relates 1t with the i'm
picaton that neither party" to this lingual
passage st arms meant anything. Probably
not But 1t Is just this embarrassment Of mis-
understanding, each Of tho other, that Ia 10
likely to cause trouble
EFT Us go back as far as Charles Dicken.
When he visited this country in 1912 it
Is difficult at this day to cxaggerate tho inten-
sity OF the homage extended to him. "He
will have progreas through tho states," wrote
mr. Tcknor, "unequaled since Lafsyette's"
An immense banquet wss tendered to him, at
which Washington Irving presided. Constant
y beforehand, while the preparations were
going on Irving who was to make a speech Of
welcome, kept e1claming, IT shal certainly
break down."
BE did net disappoint himself quote
from Forster:
"At last the moment arrived. Mr.. Irving
arose, and tho deafening and long continued
applause by no means lessened his apprehen-
through two three sentences pretty easily,
but in the next hesitated, and after one or
two attempts to go on gave 1t up.
There said he he resumed his seat amid
applause as great as had greeted his rising,
There. told you I should break down, and
I've done iti' J."
Dickens told the Americans what he thought
Of them; he told them in speeches and he
wrote about them. He says in one Of his
letters that apparently they unused to
being told the truth. "The wonder is he
goes on 'that breathing man can be found
with temerity enough to suggest the possibil-
ity Of their having done wrong"
Again, in his preface to "Chuzzlewit," he
writes:
"There were, at that period the part Of
frothy young American party, demonstra-
tions making OF 'xympathy' toward Ireland
and hostility toward England, in which such
outrages ran rampant that, having the
sion ready to hand, I ridiculed them And
this did, not in any animosity toward Amer
ica but Just as l should have done
Later on came the famous "amendc honor
able" Of "Punch," after the assassination Of
President Lincoln. Punch had been un-
ceasng IN It's datribes against him. In its
issue Of May 6, 1865, it published what is
perhaps the finest tribute ever published-in
view Of all the circumstances. 1t began with
the line Gas If written by Punch to himself)
Ye~ With nookins pencil won. to traos"-
you lay a murdered Llncon's btsr,
which rose to the height Of self-deprecation in
the fourth stanzs which read
Beside this that bears for winding sheet
Stripes he lived to
Between tho mournsrs At his head and feet
Say. scurril- Jester. IL thsrs room for youf
The authorship Of these noble and abject
verses still remains in dispute, 80 far az
know. Perhaps they reveal better than any
thing else written the true temper Of tho Eng
lishman who, beneath his crust Of superiority
is ready to acknowledge when he Is wrong.
TURNING now to more recent times, have
In mind a book published within the last
year The name Of the author Is c. Reginald
Enock, F. r. @. g. engineer. traveller au-
thor economist, who has spent many years
abroad In professional work and in the in
vestigation Of natural resources, especially in
North and South America"
He knows his America. And this is tho
spirit in which he writes in his book Eng
land and America" He begins by stating that
the fact that American representatives in
London, ambassadors and other public men
rapidly fall into the environment Of tho
English upper and governing class and arc
absorbed by it, which enables them to disarm
what aggressive Americanism they may have
brought with them -a and here the six
words that furnish Mr.. Enock with his sting
to find themselves "in the soothing society
Of gentlemen"
Hc wrote these words before there had been
published Ambassador Pages letters in which
Mr. Page writes with horror of the possibility
Of Mr.. Bryan paying London visit. 1t is
ono thing for Americans to deprccate their