The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-27

written an unusual and delightful book,
which is sure to be cordially received
both by those to whom Paris Is mem
DRY and those to whom it is a hope. One
of the charms of Paris Is the infinite
stimulus that 1t gives to thought. More
even than most foreign cities 1t sets the
Intelligent traveller to specializing phil
osophizng. dreaming One does not take
its beauty and its picturesqueness for
granted, but one goes about seeking a
reason for things. and, often, finding one.
This Is the book of one who has l1ved
long In the French capital and analysed
the sources of her pleasure In It, She
calls the volume IAN intimate account or
its people. its home life and its places
of interest" but II is an Interpretation as
we'll as an account of these things.
The book is divided into three parts.
The first section 1.-THE Life and the Peo-
ple," has chapters upon the Academy,
the Theater Franchise, French homes
the Quarter" the men of letters, the
restaurants, and the great shops; the
second section deals with the rulers OF
Paris, and the third with the art-life and
its institutions. Miss De Forest has put
into the book large amount of the in
teresting information about little things
which is only to be learned by living In
any city. Every traveller who has done
more than skim the surface of the town
with Boedeker's aid, knows few of
these out-of-the-way things. but few In
deed are the travellers who have enjoyed
Miss DE Forests opportunities, or could
place their wisdom at our disposal in so
charming and unaffected a way.
Miss De Forest has lived in Paris for
l,,.,. o, ti,x,,
about people is as extensive about
places. The little volume is sown with
interesting anecdotes of the great of
France The readers only regret will be
that the book is not twice as exhaustive.
("paris AS 1t Is" BY Katharine De For
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by Lowman q Hanford)
The books of the English Mr.. Henty
have for so long time been so lavishly
consumed by the young In America that
one Of the crying needs of our literature
has been Mr.. Henty of our own This
want has been fully met by the Rev.
Cyrus Townsend Brady, who Is proceed
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that Mr.. Henty IL, and more. He is turn
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vigorous. dashing, wholesome, patriotic,
with lots of fighting and n good deal of
lowering In them In the latter re-
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France, born In Ireland and serving un-
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boy. the dotlng passion of an old man.
and the conservation of "a devotee." II
that Is not full house" I'm the game
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t''The Grip Of Honor" Ky Cyrus Town
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recent writer ia owe ~ the Eastern
Journals. protests, heartily sgAins,
the 'riccnes> Of Mr. Howcas. atcrrinS
that his people show such delicate
and complicated iassiuess about u,uo
things that a man r,.yttft. apaFr-f -, an