The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
NEWS or THE BOOK WORLD
Books Of Travel That Let You See Things
-one Tells What TWO Persons Saw in
Spain and the Other Takes the Reader
to Mexico Under the Guidance OF an
American Girl for Delightful Trip.


Spain and the Other Takes the Reader
to Mexico Under the Guidance OF an
American Girl for Delightful Trip.
Most books of travel lack much Je-
rome Hart in Two Argonauts In Spain APP
preclates that fact, for he says in his
preface: Journeys made rapidly result
IN rapid impressions; they may not be
profound, but they at least are vivid. y
He compares his pen sketches to snapshot
photos, and says that snapshot photos
are not art, and the pen sketches are not
literature, but both may Interest," and
his do
Mr.. Hart took note Of something be-
sides the Alhambra when he was at
Granada. He found something to interest
nm IN the newspa per lads of the place.
For example, he found the announce
ment of a soap factory in thorofare
called the Street of the Virgin Its
manager oddly announces . Says Mr. Hart,
that he will teach soapmaking in all
It's branches. Had the proprietor been
resident of this country he would have
advertised soapmaking college and con-
ferred degrees upon graduates It would
have been easy to ''slip thru such an in
st1tut1on, at least He found also, even
IN this time-Worn city, an expectancy
OF boom, just such as one finds in a
Kansas town, and a hope of more rail-
roads,
But he did go to the Alhambra This
IS MS composite impression:
But after we had left Granada, and the
slght OF itching palms, the sound of va
cant laughter and the clicking of cameras
| were no longer around me, the beauty of
the Arabian palace began to grow upon
me- And as looked back it mellowed
IN my memory and took on a retrospective
beauty.
$50 l forget how sick the Alhambra
r1ffraH made me. and if I ever said any
thing detraeting in any way from the Al
hambra's beauty. 1 hereby formally re
tract, recant and withdraw the same by
bell book and candle
So Mr.. Hart wears the spell Of tho
| place still. His facile pen sketches are
supplemented by generous number of
| halftones. fe.-
IN MEMoRY's. GARDEN.
| There is a garden in the twilight lands
OF Memory, where troops of butterflies
| Flutter adown the cypress paths. and
| bands 5..iE
OF flowers mysterious droop their drow-
sy eyes.
There, thru the slken hush, come foot
falls faint -
And hurried thru the vague parterre:
! and signs
whispering Of rapture or of sweet com
plaint
Like ceaseless parle Of bees and butter
flies.
Here, by one lonely pathway. steal I soon.
To find the coverings of the old delight
Our hearts together knew, when 10! the
| moon
Turns all the cypress alleys into white
Thomas Walsh, in May Smart Set
good deal like being in Mexico is a
reading of An American Girl in Mexico by
Elizabeth Visere McGarry. You get Oft
/ the train with her at the capital, and
1 there you are hesitating which to take
| "a quaint mule carr or "an old coach of
the model of $780, While you hesitate the
] coach decides the matter for you by driv-
| ing Off and leaving You to rice on the
mule car. whose driver is leisurefy smok-
! Ing his cigarette, while waiting for traffic.
1 s''Ihe blanketed population, the brown
children, hairless dogs and Spanish music
/ We're to us like "a scenic production in
4 some line theater. as we ratified on behind
| the little mules" You realize, as you read
/ that, that it is just what you would have
said leaving YOU, ,hs carer or reader easily
to fill in the rest oft the picture and that,
j '-E.
! this conviction that you are really seeing
the things described instead of reading
about them persists thru the book What
| more could you ask? If you would have
Illustrations, they are there-very excel
lent halftones and very many of them,
from that of 4 "Senorita Aristocratica'' tn
that of Happy Home Circle of poems
| among the cact.
The Uneasy Chair.
The American girl may be unreasonable
j in her demands, but it would be disap-
| pointing to anyone who was waiting at
| the famous Canadian shrine of Sainte
Anne de Beaupre to see a miracle to have
4 to turn away to care for a preiudced
| Englishman who had been crippled in the
crush of pilgrims But the miracle came
| later, in quaint old Quebec, and Anna
4 Chaplin Ray tells the story in BY the Good
/ Sainte Anne with the same wholesome
charm and natural characters and Incl
dents as mark her famous Teddy
books.