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Thomas Kelson Page's address on
"The American Homes and the Four
Hundred. ip New York."
"I have always been .struck by the
sincerity which I have found in the
American. Unfortunately for our repu
tation, the phase of home life which is
most frequently brought into public
notice, is one which, if it can be called
home life at all, is cerUinly not repre
sentative of American home life It is
that which is found in certain peculiar
circles of certain large cities in this
country. This is the home life which is
most frequently referred to and ad
vanced in the public prints, possibly be
cause it is the mo&t extraordinary form
that domestic life has ever taken in this
country. Unhappily for us, it goes
abroad as being a constituent part of
our home life; and very ridiculously it
is imagined, perhaps because it so im
agines itself and asserts itself, to be the
highest form of our home life. I thsok
God for my part that it is not only not
the highest form of American life, but
that it is no part whatever of American
home life. It is only a counterfeit pre
sentment of what it esteems 10 be a form
of foreign fashionable life. It has not
even the virtue of having itB vices sin
cere. "A preacher, and 1 have no doubt a
good preacher and a good man, preached
the other day before this people or that
segment of them that goes to church a
sermon calling their attention to their
duties in plain and vigorous language
for which he has been much and justly
praised in the newspapers of the coun
try. But the Rev. Dr. Hamilton is the
rector of a New York church, and the
Nnw York in which his church is situ
ated is not the least provincial section
in this couutry. It arrogates itself to
be a sort of sacred and forbidden city
within the outer city of New York
proper.
"The major portion of the congrega
tion which he addressed at Newport the
other day belongs to that New York, and
to such sycophants as can buy a holding
within itB borders; and the reverend
preacher, in order to make his sermon
go down with bis congregation, used an
argument, which, in the interest of
American civilizition, I must repudi
ate. He told them that they must re
member that 50000.000 American peo
had their gaze fastened upon them and
looked to them as their exemplars, ap
plying their energies and spending their
lives in endeavoring to emulate them.
I know not bow to characterize such
nonsense excopt i& the plain venacular.
Withsuch insensate tottery pouring into
their ears no wonder that little set of
gilded imitatorB lose their bearings, be
come blinded and fall into the ditch of
folly and profligacy.
"I make so bold as to assert that there
are not only not 50 000,000 of people in
this country who sit with envious, if not
adoring, gaze fastened upon that spec
tacle of divorced and doubly divorced
men and women and their sycophants
and parasites; but that outside of their
own circle, there are not more than
50,000 people in all America who do not
reprobate and deride their arrogance.
It is true that their doings are chron
icled and doubtless read by milhonB in
the weekly journals, bnt so are-the acts
of freaks and malefactors, including
characters who are unmentionable.
"And the reverend preacher doubtless
has lived so close the source from
which these reports have emanated that
be has become dazzled and lost his
bearing?; but if he would go abroad, and
when I say abroad I do not mean to
other countries, but abroad in this broad
land, and see the American people in
their home, he would flod that those to
whom he addressed himself on that oc
casion were far from being held in the
esteem he stated, They mistake noto
riety for fame, brazenness for splendor
and prominence for exaltation." The
Sun.
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LITERARY NOTES.
The September number of McClure's
Magazine will contain an elaborately
illustrated article by Samuel IIopkiDS
Adams on "The Training of Lions, Tig
ers, and Other Great Cats." The draw
ings, by Charles R. Knight, of the
American Museum of Natural History,
because of the artist's technical skill
and scientific Knowledge, are doubtless
the most startling and life-like por
traits of liona that have appeared in any
magazine for some time. The author
relates several capital anecJotes of
hairbreadth escapes of trainers from
death.
Honorable George S. Boutwell, Ex
Secretary of the Treasury, will write in
the September McClure's of "An His
tone Sale of United States Bonds in
England." The article gives the text
of 'the official correspondence of our
government with the Bank of Ecgland
relating to a 6omewhat singular episode
in the affairs of the Treasury Depart
ment. "A Bill from Tiffany's" will be the
subject of the second of the "True
Stories from the Under-World,' by
Josiah Flynt and Francis Walton, in
McClure's for Septi mber. The hero is
a New York detective, and the action
centers round a metropolitan" diamond
robbery. This story shows how pro
fessional thieves live and how they
treat each other. The illustrat'ons will
be from studies of types in the Rogue's
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