New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
NORTH AND SOUTH.
Rappy Days an Britain and Pro-
Ccncf.

- iAKES BY the Rev. h d. Rawnsley. Crown
svo pp 2sS TIE Macmillan Company
THE CHRISTMAS KALENDs OF OF l,a phos 80 hfHT fsaT-
Ey Thomas A JanvieT. Post SVo, PIP o. A'N
per & Bros
Canon Rawnsley's love of nature ana MS nc
light in the beauty of the English lake co"n.,s
have free play in his new volume vi -
sketches To those who have similar tasteS i''
word pictures will give much pleasure anu
,ns more mosaic reader can feel the charIh Vi
sueh passages as that in which ne h"'e' ~
loveliness Of the wild daffodils OF Duuooh' 'iie
thousands upon tens of thousands OF the pi4sn'
eyed dafodils, growing in silent spiehooi "Ai
imaginable
The children of countless years tney seelnara s
% have nossessed themselves or every squdIe
20 ~ .ey5er underground they found foot
hold on the runnel edges, they glo"eu w w. 80
the shadow Of the woodland trenclles, S,oms tbev
,Iaa the sun itself from the rocky knobs, tneg
shook with delight upon the river lsIaIas. aha ~
nodded and moved to their own snao9"s 1 @ - in in
Quiet pools "A poet coule ho' "N' ~
such jocund company
Such sheets Of gold we cannot kno" III .iils
,u,,,+rv east Of the glorious California peoples,
-. .rc,,fs,ts things are worthy rivals OF
vordsworth's danodils. nodding their raoian'
As a, The nacul,arly endearing Enslish iano-
...n. Is. Ms reckon also IN this joyous corn-
- .n. -r,urnphant blaze Of scarlet popples
.1onx the fields of Normandy; the drifteo sno"
ne ,bs albums that border the RiVerlera foau
side. the rosy flush Of the crowdins cyclaIieh oI
the Syrian plain; the purple scented Pa'CI"
z5ole+s in the ancient villa gardens VI i'0'''o
the crimson Of the Bougainvillea hiolns INC &C.
stone fortifcations OF Gibraltar; the la!is -
erlets of red and gold, of white ana pinh' "u"e
down in a Dutch tulip field-one aIter aho'it
the rich and delicate masses OF color slo" -N "
,raxeller's memory and none are more pe"
ing than the lucent tender yello" OF the u"'e0
mans daffodis- cou
ot onc,ent customs in the lake region Canon
r2aVnsley has some interesting Things " '0'
as,e,iaIIx in the chapter on the Grasmere rusn
-, ;, This rustic festival dates from the
Reformation days, when the nooiS "a
h,,-cbas were of soil-and rough SOIL often ols-
,,,a5 nv intramural burials-and the perloolcdi
,eu,;nz of its covering of rushes was heceS-
, THE dedication festival Of the FlIase
-,,,rcb Was made the occasion for the rush "e0i
ing and men, women and children oroush' sIea
lunches of rushes and flowers to the chulo
wall with much pleasant and picturesque
,,onv The distributing of speclal hIliu y!
,ipearbread is a traditional obserNance' oiiO
,Tav-nole dancing has sometimes Teen a oonconn
,+sn+ Long may the Grasmere 1esuNal ho"i ioA
for hundreds of years in the IuUuIe 0s A'
hundreds of years in the past 1t mas hNe"' pei
hans more than those hundreds, Tor the au'io'
tells us that it may have been reno % 'i-s
Roman Floralia. Old customs, be il said have
= strong pull on the dalesman's hearl ine
,,,,,,,brian character is tenacious-is much "ha'
. =. .,a, the viking ancestors Of the mod
ern Curnbrians landed on the nearest sNoi
C.,- 1.av-nsIev has pithy chapter on tnelr
1.,,,+s and virtues laying special stress on 1ne
.h;o, N which they make their Woro lheli
hand asT have come across men or the genera
-,on rareing away he says VINO IN al W liieii
contracts never once used piece OF Written
naner. May, naay,' they would say ne seN
ma his word and what, that's eneuf. OF SUI 'e
eneuf fer any man.
-ri,rae charming sketches of festival in France
fiji Mr. LAWYERS new volume. There is a WIN
ming atmosphere of mirth and tenderness III TIC
record Of a Christmas spent In falr provence
II is good in restless, hurTying, oVerpracI1eN'
America to be shut away for some cneers liio-
,77ents in a land where reverence 1or oiuIilii'
kindly custom remains, where genuine ohe.
&C., ,,-3+es master and man. and where simple
measures are felt at their full value here as
in his Fray Antonio of the Gardens MT Jan
,iers men is at its best The quaint oiu pdoH-
elor yidame at the chateau his warm heaF'eu
,za-,end-,+s a. the farm. make their way prompt
u into the readers liking and are reluctantly
1eft We linser over the delicious snalls. Win
their brown sauce. and the winter melons OF the
Christmas sup er: hear the dying strains
of the midnight Noel thrill with the rest over
the story of a kinsrnan's valor' told by tne Ho
farmer. beside the Christmas FIRE The autnor
account of a troubadour pilgrimage from Faris
ia Avignon. and his description OF a perform
snoe Al the wonderful old Roman theatre a'
Orange the ancient Aransio, are aomnapie ~ ~
their way. and highly entertaining put we hoio
with him in the impulse that mace MN opeL
his volume with that most joyous ana io' aOis
Christmas sketch.