New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17

any nation but that. The marques is my master,
ai!d he's no Tuscan, but a Pistolese"
which he assented readily. '@i1 -
great lord and Should have the bs 6f
E me IL lasts one IS taken and another is left.
something once upon time.
origin he replied. is Canceilieri In fact Gino
.1ancelleri Is the whole OF 81 but they call me
not II Bazza because Of this great chin of pi mine
vas ne" my turn to be interested. not in his
INN. "nch was nothing out OF the common run
nnL IN ms name This unshaven hedger bore the
ckeboard arms the White and t hS Bisek e
1in, mans ans blood had been brewed that Internal
- dog death Al this told him. Your fore
The last Of the CanceIieri took this at first with
, He may have been. for all I know he said
stones betwixt Piastre and Cireglo. He was famous
- -. l9u nave been walking his metal this
bettfr Tyrant "f Pigtoja. was he? Well there's a
him he laughed gayly ne huI"or Of 1t now tickling
-. said thar Considered it d less reputable trade
4lall road men9ing; but Cancellier would have his
'aG sR out now that he had caught it,
10 dispute it, But what graves me is The iustc e
OF IL Ny grandfather. as you may say. walked
NJ a-1e me PlStoesi doing the by my father
The r6ogFt consoles - o. iieia airy Gay,
az eyebrow: il is thus the Tuscans usually shrug
learn 10 be- 3i{ertj t !, = IuL meal but you may
80 ss-,,l~s[ - -. II as 4 snack That is my
He took of his wooen cap as he made tfis little
veTssto ana ga" nm engage friend in lively con
When he writes thus Mr.. Hewlett takes US
with him; we go the whole length rejoicing in
his company, and. in justice be it said he writes
thus on many Of his pages. OF architecture he
has something Y say, and Of painting more in a
fine wholesome reaction against MorelH and all
his complacent followers. The protest which
he makes in more than one place against those
VIII NAL ipHf in
q pragmatic few is like a cup of cold water in
these dusty days Of solemn debate over cues
tions Of attribution, and his Independence is as
intelligent as II is humorous. Nothing could be
more inspiriting. or sounder. than his casual
championship Of Bronzino, for example But we
like him best when he returns as he sc fire.
quenty does, 10 the purely human interest,
brings into his account Of tragic Volterra the
landlord dying Of typhoid at his inn. and in his
chapter on Arezzo gives page after page to the
obscure little wOrkwoman whose doings he
watches from his window. With such charac-
teristic types he peoples his two volumes setting
them against a background whose picturesque
ness he knows 10 the core, and bathing every
Thing in Eight and air. making us feel the beat
ing OF the heart Of Italy in his work. We are
sorry, as we have said, that he has flung over
that work too many Of the literary graces which
arc, indeed. more fitted To- imaginative prose
than TO record OF things precisely as they are
Meet him half way however granting him those
graces as but the defects Of his qualities and it
Is ODDS that you place The Road in Tuscany
on the shelf alongside the Jew books i'm which
the charm Of Italian life and landscape is en-
bainaed As in the cordial Of perfect sympathy.
SIR Pencils numerous illustrations pen
drawings reproduced fl facsimile and broader
sketches given IN half tones and photogravure
are clever and full OF vitality. Though they are
curiously lacking in the quality Of Italian light
suggesting what IS highly improbable that
they were mostly drawn gray days or in a
studio. they are successful ia their interpreta-
ton Of what may call the body and form Of
italian scenery. A little town hudded OIL its
hillside. a group OF towers, palace looming on
some stony square or grim. n1elodramatic look