New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-28
Notes Of Travel by Mr. HocciiS
Hrs. JFkdri0n and Others.

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It is familiar saying that every one has a
novel slowed away amongst his emotional, II
not his intellectual. belongings The saying
should be amended so account for the book
~ travel which is likewise potential in every
human breast. We all move UP and down the
world more or less and sooner or later we are
ali bound 10 record our impressions in a book.
This les6s 10 some rather amazing publications.
strange and quite useless pages Of text and pict-
ure- But II also leads to the making of some
delightful volumes. especially when the traveller
happens TO be & person with a genuine gift Of
observation and genuine literary faculty. The
sheaf OF books before US contains much that
81 is pleasant and edfying 70 read.
Mr. HoweIls for example has all his life
long been connoisseur OF European sensations.
From the early years OF his Venetian Days
he has shown how readily he enters into the
Interests Of foreign peoples. how accurately he
spprehends their traits and their backgrounds
In one travel book after another he has made
Us his fortunate companions. sharers in his
candid appreciation Of Continental manners,
eharers in his delicately humorous sense OF
things" In his latest book ramble with him
rot only in Rome but in other Italian towns and
cities and on the fringe OF Spain. He is de
scriptiye. Of course but il is not for portraits
OF places in any conventional meaning of the
phrase that read him. II is rather for the
broad atmosphere of historic scenes that we go
20 him, and, If the words be not too portentous,
for Interpretation OF national character. 1t is
Ct al events, for the dips beneath the surface
Of italian life that We value this collection Of
lightly touched but somehow curiously pene-
tratins notes
Mrs Wharton is another traveller who carries
abroad much as she finds there gifts of
taste. imagination and artistic knowledge which
enable her TO place her subject in an original.
perspective. and thereby 10 give the reader
Through France charms by virtue Of its point
Of view. its abundance of swift, clever strokes
at pictorial and significant of critical re-
lection. The author aIudes for instance to
''the great mad broken dream Of Beauvais choir
the cathedral without nave-the KUbla Khan
Of architecture The passage is character
istic Everywhere in ;fis book you feel the incl
dents Of motorists holiday working upon Mrs
Wharton,s min6 and provoking her TO ideas
She plays with these casually enough as BELTS
the essentially impressionistic essayist but not
upon the most hurried visit or in the pres
ence IF the most Overwhelming monuments
could her intelligence be suspended or confused.
She is always alert. always the sophisticated
analyst. always the deft. concise writer.
Though there is no glamour in her book. there IS
= great deal OF skilfGl and interesting deInea-
tion. The illustrations, by the way. good. full
rage halftones from photographs. disclose. like
the text. an aptitude for selection.
book having a place apart in the current
literature Of travel is Mr. Sherrill's Stained
Glass Tours in France a work on an enchant-
ing subject. written with enthusiasm and judg-
rnent. The author Graves our indulgence OBJ
serving that he lis not authority on glass
yust lawyer on a holiday Nevertheless he
admirably fulfls his purpose, which is to locate
the good stained glass in France and 10 explain
how Il can most conveniently be seen He has
knouledge-more than. in his modest way he
would think Of claiming-but would attach
equal importance to the fact that the writing OF
This book plainly labor of love. Mt.
Sheriff. savors with true feeling the beauty OF
those windows which he has taken SO much
pains He follows a certain chronological
system from the earliest period to the sixteenth
century he is careful Of mis- history, and he en-
beavers, in short. to make his pages Of prac-
teal service. 1t is, however, just its stimu-
lating character that should carry the volume
far No one can read il without longing to fol-
low in the authors footsteps and to find as he
has found. peculiar JOY in world of design
and color.
Nj John A BaphaeTs Pictures of Paris
and Some Parsians' is sheaf of enter
tanning sketches Illustrating the frothier move
n1ent OF life in the French capital it is a little
book made up Of brief chapters The author
IS humorist. after his fashion, and so is Mr.
Frank Reynolds. the maker of the spirited illus
trations. Il is only the surface of things that
IS touched here. Ne have only the thumb-nan
notes Of the sprightly journalist. But the rec
ord, far as il goes. is true. More serious rs
the purpose Of Paris the Beautiful a book in
which Miss Lillian Whiting has been at pains 20
study the city in those aspects which proclaim
Il the centre Of French intelligence. She de-
scribes with fervor its outward loneliness, and
touches briefly upon scores of its great monu-