| Show ENGLISH AUTHOR CALLS II AMERICANS Our London Londo Literary Lener u Special Correspondence I ONDON Aug 7 Cosmo Hamil Hamilton LONDON ton tho the author of or Dukes Son L and various other novels noels and plays has been giving RivinG his Impressions Impressions of a Americans In London In a popular weekly Journal He Ill goes to the Savoy hotel he ho says to 10 study them museum of o curios ho he It is a n very Ver writes and the quaintest and most curious of them theta nil all hall hull from tram Columbia It Is too delicious to watch these prim primeval primeval eval and precocious creatures the wo woman WOmen men man In time the most elaborate clothes and ana the men inca In the weird garments of at at feeding time Most ot of Broadway the women are ample oven even luxuriant They have hao much the face and anna arms pi ot of rowing men In a bland and way they pretend to be b bored or blase lase They affect what they Imagine to be betho bethe the tho airs of or English fashionable wonton women and ana murmur peremptory things to 10 their mall kind after neter the time manner ot of princesses In the novels novel of or American writers They are n re very fond of using French rench l words such us mis an atm grat gral tang lung and anti and they make the tho use of at a Il straw str w In III a 11 long glasa glass a thing timing to practise In private Cosmo Hamilton has lots some sonic little reputation repUtation tation ns as a II writer of 01 witty witt and el ci timings things A man loan who Is al nl always ways striving to scintillate runs great Freal risk of or making a tool fool ot of a himself The truth of or this thiB statement Cosmo Hamil Hamilton ton proceeds to 10 demonstrate In this fashion COSMOS COS IOS SARCASM They are really very cry kind sImple people tho the Americans I have hae met many during the season They fhe strIke one as ns always trying very hard to be bo what they tho are arc pot I mean civilized That is what makes make them thorn so delicious deliciously ly amusing But Dut for tor their color they the theare are really nothing but That Is something which nobody has baa ever said before And to say something which nobody has hall ever said before bOrore Is what the tho professional smart man nina Is III ever striving after arter nut But obviously tho the statement needs some explanation It sounds unkind even horrible adds Cosmo Hamilton but I h mean menn It metaphorically In the sense that they are arc affected nail anil dominated by noise color ragtime airs melodrama drums I 1 almost said brass They frankly do not understand sub subtlety sUbtlety or oi sarcasm Their humor Is tho the hu humor humor humor mor of at tho the yet they the are won wonderfully In some of or their notions They are arc ns nil far as 1111 my lilY knowl knowledge knowledge edge of a them goes and of or course courso I havo met only the tho women who have be become become become come leaders of at English society and amI their brothers Just unsophisticated na nil natives tives ot or a raw young country who firmly finn believe bellevo that they were the first inhabitants of or the earth The fhe foregoing presumably Is a n sam lam sample plo pIc of or what Cosmo Hamilton regards ns IS subtlety and sarcasm It Is sim simply simply ply 11 silly rot rOl Rut But because Cosmo Ham unto Hamilton ilton writes It ho hn gets sets paid probably as II much as 1111 15 l a n column for tor It U And tho time temptation to write rot when you can get that price for It must bo be great Still calling Americans Is about the limit If It Cosmo Hamilton has nn regard for his health ho lie will not repeat that observation In the time hearing ot of any of ot them It may ilia pass muster as humor In iii England but In America It Js s classI classIfied fled fied as ns fighting talk SOUVENIR HUNTER The voice of or tho tIle souvenir Imitator hunter is 2 hoard heard In lii the tho land hand and simultaneously with the discovery that a Cuxton Caton nest first edition of Golden Legend Is U mys mysteriously missing from rOm the time Manchester Public Library comes cOllies a II pathetic wall from coin the tho rector of Stoke Stake logis There Thero Theroa Therea a Il youth ono of n u party parly of or three Amer American nier ican tourists succeeded though hotly pursued by hy time th aged caretaker In car carrying carrying off ort a n notice to 10 visitors which hung In tho the churchyard With their booty boot the th entire party parly rods off art In tn ump In their motor car As Js a 11 trophy a II notice to visitors to refrain from front vandalism docs not net seem to be bc of par particularly particularly thrilling Interest but hut time the American who arrives lute late In tho time sea lieu season season son lion when tIme tho years rears supplies of or Van remains anti and ancestral homes of a George Washington aro urn ex ox must be content with poorer game THE TILE FIRST FInST INTERVIEW It Is lit generally supposed that tho time Interview Is an ap American Invention hut but a R French literary Journal now as us sorts Herts that It wits was a wh published tho the nut first Interview The Tho In iii Interviewer was Herault do de th time Ihli n mt now collected collect ell edition nf or whose works have havo just junt ju t appeared HU 1114 subject lu was the tho great the lute tute 1785 No Nn single note of time the modern newspaper I er l lit is lacking In III It It U does not mint appear as its an aim episode In n lie book bo k of travel like time tho In with Voltaire that figure In him Inthe the Iho relations nf or tho the voyages of ot flub century grand tourists The fhe writer went to 10 fur no mb other oIlier purpose than to get el hiM hll Interview i he lie Celtic came straight hack back to and amid trotti U n out omit In the tho frank flippant journal journalistic style stylo that In III now nos eo so popular I In ended his hili life lite on all the thu a fact ono ime cnn can picture saying signi significant of much SHORTCOMINGS Among literary people everywhere of ot course much sympathy U is l felt with poor who hums hUll fallen tallen Into such auch In her old ouo aue but butt bu u uj uI I lid j t j AS j c I in Florence lorenee I writes writa a a 11 friend who lives there opinions concerning her vary rita Tho to whom sho she owes oes a lot lotof lotof of money dwell on her imer shortcomings the time poor to whom she was rashly gen generous erous Crous have only words ot of a praise for her Dont DolIt speak of a her bar said one ono of or tho former J I was wan only a boy bay when she lived here but ut her accounts with us liS are arc still unsettled 1 I remember el her well She SIte was vUR very ery handsome anti sho she wore fine fillo clothes s but In dreadful drendul taste There Thero were always two great greal dogs with her I have often ortell seen her herIn h 1 In her carriage with one on ott each side of ot her their great heads bends close to 10 her face and leaning batting forward r She Sho was always moving and und lived In n mm any an num number number ber her of or houses here She hiss has brought everything on omi herself with gambling dogs and drink There never was a n kinder lady than Guida said a n woman of or the tho people she he was wall the thc lady ludy with time the logs dogs who lived in 11 tho the palazzo Mun gone In itt time tho Via Yla del and was wait ail good to all nil animals In Florence If U anybody any od had a n cat or dog doe or bird that was vas ill III or om old or If Ir they t were cre going away amid know what to 10 do with their pets they the said I will take It to 10 the time She Sho will take came caio of or It And 1 when you JOI took It she said aId always Yes Ill take tako your our little bird your log dog or your our cat Site She helped everybody and never turned awn a II person or an animal that was In trou trouble trouble trouble ble and now CHARLES |
