The sun., 1910-06-25

do Il Of publishing accounts Of journeys
they make. The journeys are uniformly
along The beaten track Of travel. the
things they 80 arc those that an tourists
look upon. the infoTmation thsy give
is 10 be found In every ones guide book
and the personal ohssEvations they make
have rarely any quality Of originality
or distinction. Il IL q harmless practice.
save for tho unfortunates who are misled
into buying tho book with the sEpeCtA-
ton Of learning something Of value OF
interest. and it Gratifss the author and
his personal friends. he late Frank
Stockton described the reluctancs Of
those who stayed a. home 10 listen 70
the tales Of returned travellers. and with
books Of this kind the author dlschargss
his whole Obligation IN a lump and h saved
the trouble Of ORAL repetition. No wan
derer about the earth 90 far has taken
his task 70 seriously ~ Mr. Leonard B.
Bigger OF Kansas. whose record Of two
voyages Around the World with a Bust
ness Man the John c. Winston Com
many. PhilAielphial Ellis four handsOme.
literally illustrated volumes. Mr. Big
gers first trip vas across the Atlantic 10
Europe He inspires hope a. the start nv
the statement that he has shaken hands
with every President from Lincoln 70
Roosevelt aud by his description Of each
individual hardshAke. A. soon a. he
gets aboard ship. however. he observes
that the North German Lloyd officers
speak English with a decided German
acceat He saw a good deal Oi Europe
His second trip vas In the opposite d.
reCtioR. to JapaR and India. and on the way
hack he saw more Of Europe Ne writes
sensible letters home with the kind of
Information the folks al home wish 70
have. and the accumulation Of these
sWells ont 70 four volumes. He has in
sertsi a quantity of Photographic views.
some Of them very good. has prefixed 70
each volume q colorei picturs and 70
The first his portrait. which shows a pleas
AIT looking. kindly old gentleman. We
nav now expect some more voluminous
writer of Letters 20 Surpass him by record
ing his trip IN dozen or twenty volumes
IN hof book Hardy Plants for Cottage
Gardens Henry TIol' and Company
Helen \ Albes secures her readers
attention st once by irnparting her infor-
nation in ths form % personal expe-
riences Nohodv can keep awRv from the
story ~ anothrr's effort . build up a
garden or a farm. The mistakes A-s
even more interesting than the giccezs.s
The last haN 81 the hook is purely d..
dactic. Ophtaining classified lists and de-
scrintions of aovers arranged according
81 oOlor
Dr William SandAv LADY Margaret
professor n divinity a. Oxford. IN An
oient and Modern ChristolDgies- CO1iord
University Press. Henry FroWdsl de-
srrihes his lectures - studies prs1arEtory
% the -Iifc " Christ which hs Intends
to write They are in substance statements
of the Va -ious conceptions Of the divinity
Of Christ less stress beng put on the
Gnciel' ids1s. with which students nay
be- supposed TO be familiar. than on those
Of modern German rnd Enriish writes
The lectures are admirably clea-
The presentation of early Colonial his
tory and manners in stories oi Ehich a
child is tho principal figure IL continued
by James OTIS With -Calvet Of Mary
land Amsrican Book Company, Tho
needsd Information about lord Balt-
more's foundation IL skilfully sigarei
with exciting fiction. ~ In the other hooks
Of the series
In a Collection Of Eastern Stories and
Legends George ROutiedge and Sons
T.. p Dutton and CompG1v, Marie l.
Shedlock has made . SELECTION of Ruddha
stories which Prof Rhys navids thinks
suitable for children and interesting to
them. The necessary explanation Of the
meaning of the stories Ia appended To
thoss whose interest In Buddhism or
Oriental literature IL slight the Appro-
priatsnsss and thu interest Of the stories
is not 20 apparent We can reoollect
parents Who believed that children cared
for the fables Of PilpAy At a time whsn
youth was lsSs sophisticated than Il 10
nor