The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-01
The new PUBLICATIONS.
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without bias or prejudice. Not only are
the masterpieces of the centuries pre-
sented. but aso their immortal creators
in sharp. spirited outline. The book has
forty -eight illustrations in duogravure;
price, IN box, 81; for sale at Malley's.
"a Woman Alone in the Heart Of ia
pan" by Gertrude Adams Fisher l.. G. |
page e. CO., Boston, is another beautit |
full book that comes in handsome bind |
ings. and boxed suitable for gift pur- |
moses. The author has spent many |
years abroad and this book is the out |
growth of her experiences and observ- |
ations while travelling alone through
Japan. She went into the remotest dis |
tricts, living in places which interested
her for weeks at a time, and studying
the people at short range. Her book is
bright and trenchant, full of piquant
anecdotes, and new ideas on the old
world. Her own experiences were UNI
common and most interesting, and she
has described them vividly. The New
York Times reviewer remarks of this
admirable work; Mrs. Fisher is cheer
4 full and kindly in her comments, and
anything but narrow-minded, but she
never lays aside her American specta-
Giles or deserts her American standards,
and is unaffected by the glamour Of
the East as Townsend Harris himself.
Moreover, she has no supertluous mercy
upon Christians who hasten from far
off countries to see the geisha process
sion, and then profess to be scandal
lied by the heather Wicledness which
permits it. She saw wonderful Wres-
thing and processes Of manufacture pc
culiar to the country; she actually
heard a japanese child cry, and cry
for nothing more Nipponese than
penny to buy candy, and she photo
graphed discreetly, emitting subjects
too Japanese to be agreeable,
1.-THE Japanese women do not have
clubs, and therefore they have babies
she writes, apparently quite content
with her reasoning, to which as to many
other statements hostile to womens
clubs an answer may be found in Miss
Helen NJ Winslow's 'The President Oh
Quex.
"A Woman Alone in the Heart Of ia
pan" is embellished with especially Sc
lected original Illustrations; price $3.50;
for sale at Malley's.
settles of Northern Italy two vol
umes, by Grant Allen and George G.
William son. Illustrated. Published by
l.. C. Page & Co, Boston. For sale at
Malley's.
Mr. Aliens charming books on Paris,
Venice, ETC., are an earnest of the
worth of the present volumes, which
were completed after his death by his
old friend and co-worker, Mr. Will
hanson, and which are now offered in
q a beautifully illustrated edition uniform
with his previous works, for the first
time.
i Favorable comment concerning the
b Travel Lovers Library mas already APP
e peared in these columns, particularly il
t regard to Grant Aliens Florence
0 Paris" and Venice They are at
0 tractive books, issued in pairs and gen
y erously illustrated with sepia half-tone
of treasures of art and architecture
" and modern views.
q AS the New York Times in its care
e full review of the volumes says Tht
Z function Of these volumes is readily no
v ticed and should be appreciated by al
d amateurs, students, or travellers The,
!. supplement, but do not supplant, tn
2, professional guide book; the data 0
l. hotels, railway fares, and material con
veniences will not be found therein
| ig
II teacher through whom the traveller ma
% learn what is most worthy to admire
what is most valuable and entertainin
n to retain in memory A faneiful, init
10 mate yet almost delusive mentor pre-
II sides over the pages, relates the cause
J. and the influences which have made tn
city what it became in social, politica
or artistic Importance, and then cor
ducts the reader to an examination
~ the historical monuments throug
~ which the national or civic develop
~ ment in its various phases may /
traced. The scheme is most happy il
60 execution most charmingly carried on
20 for the cities of Northern Italy, as W
all know, do not represent detache
portions of united whole, but ratht
- separate powers, each with its own IL
~ dividual customs, dialect, art, and Gu
ture which even in our day Italia
10 Unifcation has failed entirely to obi
crate.
If you enter Italy by the Mont Cen
g. route, access to Milan is very easy
way of Turin. Milan, as has alreat
MT been indicated, is most thorough
on treated Of, and yet in an impression
istic, subjective, rather than in dida
IS tic and objective, fashion. The auth
IN, has found certain things interestin
and he tries to impart his impressio,
mt to the reader without enforcing an a
mt probation of professional CRITICS
drawn from other sources. 1T will
we'll when you leave this church Ct
ok Besozzi chapel to go to the Brera, b
do not do so if it is afternoon or y,
Tor are at all weary as the Brera gale
err, is a large and firing one, and you mu
ng not attempt to see it at the close of
day of sightseeing, but should sta
on fresh in the morning to visit It'll
for passage illustrates the mentor spirit
which the reader is conducted throu
G. the cities which were once independe
ri states of Alta Italia. 1t is a chapt
onage which the tyro traveller or 6
& student cannot afford to ignore, whet
I'd, err he pursues his journey on the a
tual ground or by the fireside in
. own home.
N Gunters for December is as usu