The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-11-24


lies in its former renoWn and the frag-
mentary reminders of It's past glories.
But it has a special importance, for it
Is rich in all that goes to make up the
attributes of a willie de Tart celebre.'
st. Remy de Provence, the subject of
the third chapter, 'is delightful and in
describable in its quiet charm broken
into, though, at certain times during
the year notably in october, when oc-
ours the great Fete de St. Ramy, The
Crau and the Camargue are described
next, after which the travellers go
through Martigues, the Venice of Pro
vence, a paradise for artists The
small lawns along the Etang de Berre,
Which has all the attributes OF salt
and fresh water lake, are visited, and
then they speed along the Rhone direct
to Marseilles, the Babylon OF the South,
where all is tumultuous and gay, and
the Cannebiere is the gayest OF an A
chapter is given to that part of Mar
settles made famous by Dumas, espe-
cially in Monte Cristo,' AlX-en-Pro-
vence, around which much sentimental
and historic interest centres, is visited,
and then Mr.. Miltoun and his party
take a run along the coast from Mar
settles to Toulon, and he describes the
little towns and interesting sights
passed by them. And IN following
chapters descriptions are given OF
trip over Can Sicle, along the real
French Riviera, around Hyeres and its
neighborhood, St. Tropez and its
"Golfe.' Freius and the Corniche dor,
La Napoule and Cannes, Antilles and
the Collie Jouan, Grasse and its envi-
rons, Nice and Cimlez Villefranche and
the Qualifications. Eze and La Turbie,
Old Monaco and New Monte Carlo,
Mention and other places.
In the appendices are given list Of
the provinces of France and their capi-
tails, gazetteer and hotel list, a few
remarks concerning the road maps of
France. note about routes, the me-
trio system Of weights ana measures,
and the Log of an Automobile"
Mr. Henry c. Shelley distinguished
English journalist, who saw service IN
Africa during the Boer war, who was
an intimate friend Of the late Henry
Drummond, and who is spending the
winter in Boston, has brought out
through Little, Brown and Company a
very handsome holiday book (prce
5000 entitled Literary By-Paths in
Old England" illustrated with nearly
two score full-page and hundred Wig
nette half tones from photographs TAX
en- by himself There are eleven chap
tiers in which he visits the scenes of
Spencer's wanderings, the home of Sir
Philip Sidney, the memorials of Will
liam Penn, the birthplace of Gray's Ell
egg and Goldsmiths Deserted Village.
He depicts Gilbert Whites Selborne, he
goes to Scotland and discovers many
new anecdotes about Carlyle and
Burns; he introduces us to Keats and
his circle and to Thomas blood and his
friends, and finally caps the climax
with the associations Of Royal Win
chester. 1t is noted by the New York
evening Post ''Mr Sheley's scholarly
rambles are marked by great self-re-
straint and modesty Not until one
reaches the two hundred and seven
tieth page does one come across any
mention of his own IT," and that APP
propriately enough comedies with his
arrival at Ecclefechan, where he dis
covered that Thomas Carlyle was
scarcely more than a by-word, ESccle-
feohan he found not attractive the
double row Of beech trees which used
to border the side of the open burn
running down the middle of the street
has been cut down and the burn itself
is partially covered. In the room
where Carlyle was born are two hats
once worn by the philosopher and now
used as q sort Of Procrustean test of
occipital dimensions. More attention
is paid to those hats than to any Of the
other relics. What higher happiness
can the hero worshipper wish than the
being able to say he has had his head
inside Carlyes hat? Inside it goes, in
a quite literal sense. Up to the time OF
my visit only twenty-nine heads had
been found to fit the hat l regret to
add that mine did not make the thir-
tieth.'
Mr.. Shelley had access to number
of unpublished letters and other mate
rial of great interest relating to Hood.
He is also able to throw new light upon
certain phases in the life of John
Keats, and there are new letters from
Byron, Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Henry C. Shelley, by the way, has
Just been appointed literary and dra-
matte editor of the Boston Herald.
Mr.. Shelley began his career as a wri-
ter in Scotland, where for eight years
he was connected with the Glasgow
Herald during which time he edited
the ''Centenary Edition of the Songs of
Burns" When the Boer war broke out
he was commissioned to proceed to the
front bv the house of Newnes in the
dual capacity as writer and illustrator
On II, fewer than ten important occa-
sons he beat his colleagues of the IL
Illustrated press by getting his pictures
back to England a week in advance of
theirs. As the general in command at
Nodder river was anxious to avail HIM
sell of Mr.. Sheley's assistance in loca-
ting the position of the Beers, he was
requested to make an ascent in the war
balloon, from which he took number
of photographs. This is the only occa-
sion on record of a war correspondent
having been allowed to go up in a war
balloon during actual hostilities. Need
less to say, the photographs created a
great sensation on their publication in
England.
After the war Mr.. Shelley followed