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

MiltOun-"Literary By-Paths IN oid
England" by Henry G. shelley
"Rosemary in Search of Father" by
C. N. and A. N. Williamson-The
American Magazine.
George AIDE furnishes a supply OF
wit and humor that will nightly en-
tertain the reader in his new book just
issued by Mcclure, Phillips and COM
pany entitled In Pastures New"
Herein he takes his public on a Jour-
ney through Europe and Egypt much
as Mark Twain did in his "lnnocehts
Mr.. AIDE In starting out with his sub
ject remarks that he is afraid that in
his efforts to enrich the English lam
guage he has made it too rich, and
some who tried it afterWard CONF
planned of mental gastritis. I'm one Of
my fables, written in pure and unde-
filed Chicago, reference was made to
that kind of table d 'hote restaurant
which serves an Italian dinner for six
ty cents. This restaurant was called a
spaghetti joint. Mr. Lang declared
that the appellaHon was altogether
preposterous, as it is a well-known
fact that spaghetti has no joints, being
invertebrate and quite devoid of osse-
GUS tissue, the same as a caterpillar"
The fun increases as the tourists
journey through Egypt. In one of the
incidents Mr.. Brewster, Of Connecticut,
has his tribulations, Mr.. AIDE tells of
the English game of football which he
and his friend, Mr.. Peaseley, of Iowa,
SOW in London:
The prevailing spirit of solemnity
worried Mr.. Peaseley. He spoke TO a
native standing alongside him and
asked: What's the matter with you
folks over here? Don't you know how
to back up a team? Where are all
your flags and ribbons, your tally-hos
and tin horns? Is this football game
or funeral?"
why should one wear ribbons at a
football game?" asked the Englishman.
Might as well put little ginger into
the exercise suggested Mr.. Peaseley.
do you sing during the gamer
Heavens, no. Why should one sing
during football gamer"
You ought to go to game in Iowa
City. We sing till we're black in the
facial about Eat EN- up, boys, XIII
EN- in their tracks, and Buck through
the line What's the use Of coming to
game if you stand around all after
noon. and don't take part?Have you
got any yells?"
What are those?'
can cgou beat that" asked Mr.
Peaseley, turning to us, "a football
game without any yells!"
evidently some good plays were be-
ing made" says Mr.. AIDE, for occa-
sionally low, growing sound-a con-
certed murmur would arise from the
multitude along the SIDE Ines
What themeanng of the sound
they are makng?" asked Mr.. Peasley,
turning to the native standing alongside
Of HIM.
They are cheering" was the reply.
"They are what?"
Cheering"
Great Scott! Do you call that cheer
| ng? At home, when we want to en-
courage the boys we get up on our lind
legs and make a nose that you can hear
II the next township"
I'VE could not blame our companion
for beng disappointed over the cheering, :"
says Mr.. AIDE. AN English cheer is mt
the ear-splitting demoniacal Shrek
Isuch as an American patriot lets out
when he hears from another batch of
precincts. The English cheer Is simply
! a loud grunt, or sort of cultural
Hey, hey or 'Hurrayr When an
English crowd cheers the sound is sim
liar to that made by a Roman mob in
| the wings of a theatre. After having
once heard the cheering one can I'M
derstand the meaning of a passage in
| the parliamentary report reading as
| follows: The gentleman hoped the
house would not act with haste.
! (Cheers.) He still had confidence in
the committee (cheers), but would ad-
wise a careful consideration (cheers),
etc. 1t might be supposed from such a
report that parliament was one contin-
| uous rough house, but we looked in
one day and it was more like a cross
between a Presbyterian synod and a
bee-keepers' convention
Francis Miltouns new book of trav-
ell, "Rambles on the Riviera" Q2mo,
IPp asa, Cloth Gilt top, boxed. Pro-
fusely illustrated Boston. L.C Page
andCompany Price S2.5O) which ap-
lpears uniform with his volumes on
brittany, Normandy, the cathedrals of
France, and the cathedrais and church.
es of the Rhine, presents the record of
several journeys made zen automobile"
and things seen in the fair land" of
Provence, or, in the words of Mr.. Mil
ton himself:
1t makes no pretense at being a work
of historical or archaeological impor-
tance, nor yet is it a conventional book
Of travel or a glorified guide book. 1t
| is merely a record of things seen and
heard, with some personal observations
on the picturesque, romantic and topo-
graphical aspects Of one of the most
varied and beautiful touring grounds in
all the world, and Is the result of many
pheasant wanderings of the author and
artist, chiefly by highway and byway
in and out of the beaten track, in pref
erence to travel by rail.
The Illustrations, by Blanche Ne
iManus, about sixty in all, were made
ION the spot" They have been repro
duced in their original colors and in
half-tones The numerous maps. are
also from the pen of the same artist