New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-23

NOTES OF TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND
AMERICA.


THE Fn XEsEE IN AHhSHEaRsx S%ERSS
BY S Morley Roberts Ne S,. Edition & E.N octave
y.Azy TOURS IN SPAIN AND ELSEWHERE, 10y
Louise Chandler Moulton octave: Do'''''
,,, ro pnnr OF THE ORIENT BY Robert Howard
PusseiI Octave. Charles Scribner's Sons
r,sre coud scarcely be a greater contrast III
tho tales OF three travellers than 'ne'e
IN these three books. Mrs Moui'on na '
nev,d through the beaten paths o'
travel Mr. Russell, on the other manu. l. 800,
after the unfamiliar 20 get out OF the oea'e" pa."
a, his main object He IL willing 10 submit 10 SUE"
a,scoroforts as slow steamers and railway trains
and poor inns in out-ofthe-wa places II ne 'm,
properly rewarded with new sensations -
ar Morley Roberts is Just as an invetera'e ,'a"'
y1e "a no "traveller'' In the special sense '" nov
word He traversed regions not strange ~ ~.
80. tho far West Of their own conntr!-p"' ms
,ournevings were Of a very different SORT i'o''' W.
Wouton's or Mr. Russells. The sup-u.'e VI ~
hook correctly indicates the nature Oh MS eNPe
800 II,s ,rave, was all toll. He tasted The for-
rows and hardships of every place ne V'Si'eu
Anglo Saxon passion for rowing ana ao'e"' -,
na.d can scarcel- have had more ;horougn-so'",,
sxemplar even in the centuries VINE" 'o'e
,dv.n,ure were commoner than they are now
Tho MASSAGE in his lie that Mr. Roner,s mas "e
,hod a., ono Of almost incredible sunerng.
lie
49,, rosor, reissue is easily to be accounteh LOT ny
~. freshness and direct simplicity OF the au'"''
recital Mr. Roberts is. or was ny ms o"" ,epo'' ,
a curious vagabond He says OF ms i"'e'.
prorress in England that II mad cu'''''""'.' ="
-orr NJ nessimism only permitting me 10 sec
hsau,v IN art-in pictures of Turner J" "'u''o VI
uoo,hoyor In the poetry of the modern p"'
though he tramped with Emersons hSS"Es s
"Sartor Resartus' about him. ano' as "e 49,,
IN a certain Congressman at whose ia'ih no nov
done DAYS work for n nights odglhe' he "''
NOT carry the latter Just for the sake OF carry e
=, " ho WAS not a phiIosophic tramp. There Is noun
ING NJ Stevenson in his book Of travels across 'e
nlains II is rather showing OF no" some VI w
,ber half live and the grim reality OF II IL VIC
of it's most striking features $500, o
Mr. Roberts began his American experiences DC
a Texas sheep-herder but 1t was not long oe'o'e
=. started off upon his wanderngs. Then as az
all other times unable 10 pay his rare ne "oiN'
his way TO Chicago a "bul-puhcher oi III. -
road-one whose business II is to see 'hat !" W,
overcrowded cattle cars steer who may be romeo
over and crushed down beneath his fellows Il lo''e
IN hes,r himself TO get up and save his own me-
peaching Chicago ne started West 10 WORK IN ran
way building After minor vicissitudes an" nv nv,
dental hunge. and thirst. he reached the 'd''''"
Pacific then in course of construction ana Jo'heu
the army Of workmen who were pushing IL tnrous'
.ho r,ilderness II was strange life that TINS we'll
,ead Unbalanced Englishman led in the motley
crowd of day -aborers among the fhou''''.'-
racalls Ruskjns remarks on the physioosi'"'
effects OF the various aspects OF nature upo" '"e
mind and theories upon the bunting OF MS o""
eniovr,ont of the mountain scenery D! MS u''
Toll IN the midst Of IT, He repeats poetry as lie
works with the pick He sings his comraoes Hos'
In English German and Italian. lie becomes w
..arbter eIegantiarum.' the umpire reiei'' "
arcvc,onaadia Of the settlement He impresses
unon A fellow -laborer the beauty OF cer'a'i my
from Rossetti's House of Life. so that he mas 10
conv and give him the verses. Then the desire lot
rowing comes again. and tfe author-tramp 'edNes
tho thinly disguised barbarism of the rairoau camp
behind him while he pushes WESTWARD o''' '
mountains into British Columbia
Mrs Iouise Chandler Moulton is a conhding trav-
euer The reader Of her Lazy Tours IN SPAN
ord Ilsewhere" feels almost like an intruder IN
Family circle-feels as though he had picked up ps
mistake bundle OF family letters Inc oooA H.
indeed detailed itinerary OF raliroads ho'ei''
cab-drives walks luncheons. picnlcs ana l"spe'
tons OF churches, museums and palaces IL" oi
which are unknown 10 the tourist Yet 'here Is al
r,deniabe charm about Mrs. Moultons narrative
when she leaves the incidents OF the railway trains
and hotels and turns TO giving her views anu I'M
nressions about European life FOR 'hcs are INC
,,nress,ons of a cultivated observer. There Is IRE
ouen,Iv a useful sidelight thrown upon the parucu-
,ar subiect IN hand that makes the chapter worm
while st.,
Mr. Robert Howard Russell, who has recoroeu MS
,ourneys along THE Edge 81 the ORIENT Is pain'y
exnerienced and alert Traveller WITH an eye io'
tho ncturesoue the unusual and the CHARACTERISTIC
That is most clearly shown In his chapter oescr'oiis
THE Pacha's Levee.' clever and breezy account
~ an unconventional experiment Here he mas de-
na-ed from the general scheme Of his book however
which Is not in the least imaginative but Is almost
as cose an adhesion TO the daily itinerary as II MIS-
Noultons book Mr.. Russells tourneyings DIVIDE
themselves into several sections. In the nrst ne
started from Trieste and made his way down the
Austrian possessions the Adratic Coast 10 Cattara
"A rou;e that leads through delightfully."- quaint ana
unfamiliar sceres-to lara Sebenco Scardona 10
o.nrzolo-scene OF the defeat OF Dandolo and the
caniure of Marco Polo-to Ragusa, and then over
The mountains TO Cettnte. They places whose
names even are hardly familiar 10 present day
readers but many Of them rich in historical, as
socations.
Cettinje has recently been in the public eye II IL
wonderfully indomitabe peoples brave little capital
the smallest in Europe-a city 20 small. indeed. that
one can stand in the middle and almost throw
stone 10 the suburbs The Inhabitants are not only
allowed but are required by law TO carry concealed
weapons. II is perhaps the last remaining capital
where the sovereign dspenses justice in person. for
under the Tree OF Justice Prince Nicholas appears
coca sionally 10 hear appeals from the courts OF
Montenegro The justice dispensed is al least sum-
marv for Mr.. Russell reports that on one occasion
the Prince called the petitioners a pack OF liars sent
,he leader Jail and threatened TO send the others
after him unless they speedily got out Of the way.
The interest OF Mr. Russels accounts OF these out
of-ihe-way places is much enhanced by the excellent
illustrations, taken from photographs He traverses
ground familiar travellers In his chapters on Egypt
and Constantinople