New-York tribune., 1908-12-12
Literary NeeUs and Criticism

guide We like the artless way in which ne
brings in his anecdotes building or some
scene invites them. The volumes are eXcep-
tionally convenient in form, they prettily
Illustrated with views and portraits, and each
has a good index The Tower OF London is a
color book for which Mr.. John Fulleylove has
made a score or OF capital Illustrations HIS
broad and solid style Is well adapted TO his
theme and he has, into the bargain, an ad-
mirable pictorial faculty These illustrations
are not by any means fragmentary impressions
Each one is we'll designed and could stano by
itself Mr. Arthur Poyser's brief text supplies
Just the odds and ends Of romantic history
which go best with a collection of illustrations
Another charming color book is the one on
Gardens Of England" for which Miss Beatrice
Parsons has made the pictures and Mr.. E. T.
Cook the text. The latter has more substance
than one would expect in q volume or the sorI.
Mr. Cook writes agreeably and to the point OF
cottage gardens, various flowers, Inc ert Oh
grouping and the passage Of the seasons MISS
Parsons is delightful in her water colors some OF
which notably the studies OF dafodils at wax
well Farm and Of rhododendrons at Moor Park
are as dainty as they are full of natural beauty
Through Ramona's Country Is a DOCK the
writing of which has plainly been labor OF
love The author Mr.. George Wharton James
preserves high admiration for Ramona" that
sincere novel IN which the late Helen Hunt Jack
son strove TO do what she could to invoke justice
for the Indian. He values IL as a romance and
as document and his interest in it has moved
him to explore its scenes, identifying wherever
possible the things on which Mrs. Jackson based
her work The characters in Ramona" were
fictitious but men and women, some OF them
still living were suggestive of ideas TO the
author. and Mr. James has hunted out these
figures His book makes species OF pendant 10
the novel Illuminating it and giving a fresh
accent to much that it contains. Again and
again the text is borne out by halftone from
a photograph. In fact, these numerous Illus
trations constitute one of the best features or
the book Every reader Of Ramona" will well
come this tribute TO its merit, and many others,
we believe who are unfamiliar with the tale
will be spurred by Mr.. James to make its ac-
ouaintance Mr.. Clifton Johnson's Highways
and Byways of the Pacific Coast" is well calcu-
lated to stimulate the Eastern reader to new
interest in the Grand Canyon of Arizona the
charms of Southern California and all those
natural beauties which lie on the Western slope.
This writer and photographer is the last man
in the world. to produce dithyrambs land
scape His descriptions are generously inter
spersed with quotations from the talks he has
had with the native" talks in which the latter
has evidently been drawn out with much success.
These unpretentious and usually humorous ex
cursions give to Mr.. JOhnsOn's book a specially
intimate and friendly character. His ilustra-
tions show the same feeling for homely traits.
If he photographs fine scenes he also photo
graphs engaging American types The SAVIOR OF
our home land is in this volume.