The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-03
THE CHARM OF The HOLY LAND
ROBERr HIrHE>S DESCRIBES
JTr> ms NfW HOOk.
With Gelsrsd illustrations By Jules Gasrin
A VIVID Word Picture OF Damascus
and Of Jerusalem where th eOrieut
Has Not changed for Centuries.


The fascination Of the East, Vanishing
say some students. writers. travellers
tourists who lingsr in the attractiv,
cities, ancient and also tremendousl,
modern. along the southern shores OF Oh,
Mediterranean or within easy access O
4. B,,t il /. ano,h.r stoyv ovsr nm IN,
eastern shores and 70 IN. interior. Tn.
HOLY Land still holds its ancient spell
And though occidentaiism sweeos owe,
Il from time to time and alnost constantly
tbese davs /, a. .imDlv /. r,,.h Of water
over N rock n, , yes that .hox. No erosion.
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ana As superoy Illustrated by jules
duer'n. with eighteen brilliantly colored
rsprodurtions of GuSrin's paintin "a and no
lon thar forty fun n. .. h.U,o,. nho,o-
P"s'
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Vasaiing the Holy Land IL vastly more
than making a Christian religious pill
"a. I,nd !, ~, ,,,a, h.. IL, ,,,,
A-'' =" "h"' may ~" sa'eu Nv '"' ei'"
order he starts not with railroad nd
from JANA 20 Jerusalem. but begins
at that ancient city 81 ruins. Baalbec OF
which n. saw. that h., loved IA kssn !,
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MIMI 'ha' peiore preeA ann norman ZINES
baaloec was the sacred city 81 the East
and the home n the alteration II the sun
and that Greeks and Romans when thew
h.d ,h. rr.s,or,, nror tbs Svr,,n I,,a "a,
"', I""" wv
u".mns !" ''''e' VII" WIS OH es'ao-
hshed worship.
One may go over the ruins Of Baalbec
no e,,,J, book styI. hrre-witb Mr. ui,b
an. "a h,, ~. ,,n,. h.. :. ,....
"oosu ne
M become sa'ura'eu WIN tho spirit OF
= he East and il ready for deep apprecia-
lion Of he rest Of the Journey
Then on. comes TO Dama.cu. -o,.,
., tIe rno"' sneien' c'.ies OF the World
wnicn looAs one OF the newest The
autnor saws
damascus has spell Jerusalem |
70 austere damascus though sacred !
~ seductive. city IN which 10 sink down ,
ana TO forget And so. after all. Is the |
'raveier snflreiy deceived' Silken gar |
fnent ana hair snIrt think OF Damas-
US ana Jerusalem. cities representative |
o. Two rehelons. OF me taith that promises
: .ensus, JOYS sna OF me tarh that bids
" followers soar above the raptures |
o. the mesh INTO the rarefed air where !
the spirit can breathe and be strong
ma the 'rue Orient H. thus summed
~: damascus - sttl thoroughly ORR |
entaE 'alro has oecome horribly ofhcial
Ano Cosmopolitan; Aigiers and Tunis
- french, Jerusalem IN the home OF the
rehgiois sects BEIRUT cont aims numbers
o' nAhAhs, MaNe~e. Greeks and Amer I
.csns' out the teH prevails IN the streets
anc oasaArs OF DsmAs"us
ana men one goes with Mr. HiChens
rom Damasc,is to Nazareth. TO Jer,isa- |
lem. TO jericho. 10 Bet hlehem Az Jerl- |
sSiem he arrives in Easter week with !
All rs glorious mysticism. it's intoler |
NICE. IT'S fsnatical religious fervor In !
viii beautiful u you know how to look
y n. and Mr Hichens shows you how;
>ssareth. Mount Tabor, and here there !
comes distinctly christ ian. religious
sspec' 70 your Journey YOU see Mary
house. Jacobs well Joseph tomb, IN.
t,ver Jordan and YOU wander through
he bleak wilderness Of Judea and begin
To realize what he author means when
n speaks "f Palestine as an Already OF
he Fast
Here Is his description n ~
In the morning the thick grass about
the tent door was drenched and from the
aarth there mounted a light mist TO III.
'reeted olives W. started early. crossed
he stream. and cam" into the land Of
milk and honey That day all that !
had ever heard Of the joys N the spring
q Palestine came back 70 my memory,
md rejoic~d in truth. Till near tn. end
md langriid rIaip h.thad in 3D.. -. -