The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-04-13

land, New York, Ohio Illinois and the great trans- Mississippi territories occasionally abide with him Returning from their business and pleasure iaunts. beyond the Rio GrAnde, they tell of a wonderful country flowing with Installations of puQue earbed in ferns and cypress, and dotted with loveliness. church ruins, pottery kilns, humbed podres, serv-
 He peons, coquettish senOritds and athletic silver spurred cavaliers.
 have frequently obtained big heap of informa- tion from a very small volume.
 On the table here in front of me- are two dimin- utive octavos that are overfowing with rich knowl edge of the newer Mexico. No slipshod, quickly compiled, poorly edited guide books thesei
 The last half of the first publication ron Horse back in Virginia, Etc."l gives Charles Dudley Warmers racy and vivid "Mexican Notes" The humorists experiences in Ca land of much polite ness amiability and gaciousness of manner" cov- cred period of less than two months, but he kept his eyes open and his pencil flying, as he always does when abroad for recreation or duty; and we marvel at the delightful entertainment he SO liber- ally spreads before us MT. Warner is no idle lounger in diamedas. He drowses not on balconies or in the shadow of garden walls. He Is alert and cautiously nquisitive Welcomed by people whose habits and history never lose attractiveness he found novel pictures of social lie in Mexico constantly presenting themselves He is an easy writer, and carries us by the fascination of style quite his own to behold wonders and curiosities as he saw them from railway car, on foot, or in the high pommeled saddle of that country
 He is not of the prosaic, time killers te whom all travel is monotonous; all scenery dull, insipid panorama of hills and valleys and water courses; all strangers impertinent bores geniality aN~ al legalized robbery. Warner is a sunbeam every where, and the reader is glad to have 80 ovial an author prove himself most intelligent guide.
 Hopkinson Smith, an American painter and ram bier, who revels in pleasure's tramp and exile deftly raises "A White Umbrella in Mexico" and affords us charming views of his artistic limnings and brush work beneath its shade This born poet dedicates a gem -sprinkled narrative of tropical sojournings to his little daughter Marion:
 "The whose face fingers longest in my memory while am away, and whose arms open widest when return the most patient of my lis- teners, the most generous of my critics"
 So gentle, loving maid Marion's portfolio laden father becomes wise brother traveller and siesta comrsde among the Mexicans. We spend morn- ing with him in Guansj sjuato; follow his nimble footsteps in Silao, after dark rejoice when the quaintly carved old m-chair in the sacristy at Zacatecas becomes his by diplomatic blarney aun- ter with him the paseo see the rude glories of Palm Sunday in Puebla de Los Angeles join him for a day in Toluca, and with ubiquitous, dare devil Moon, for our navigator and quartermaster sail the deceptive lake from Patzcuaro to Tzinzun- tzan, and get peep at a vertabe Titan Ca miracle of drawing and color harmony hidden in an obscure, dilapidated mission church for more than three centuries.
 Many sketches in miniature (genuine tid- bits of book ornament) enhance the beauty and value of MT. Smiths glimpses st the superficial. His vol tune is cabinet treasure among the few diaries that claim place beside it. Tastefully printed