New-York tribune., 1911-03-25
This Country of Ours, East, West
and South.

johnson. Svo. IN. Mi. 2Jl. Boston: The
Houehton Mitiiin Company.
EAST AND WEST. by Stanton Davis
Kirkman. Illustrated. Svo, PIP. y, -"'
g. T. Putnam's Sons.
FLORIDA TRAILS. as Seen from jack
SOnVille TO Key West and from Novem-
her 10 April, Inclusive. BY Winthrop
Packard. Illustrated from photographs
Svo. PIP. 500 Boston: small MaHn"Iu
a Co.
THE RIVER AND J. BY John G. Nethardt
With 20 illustrations. Svo pp. iN' 90
G. T. Putnam's Sons
THE GRAND. CANYON OF ARilONA'
With numerous illustrations ana nldps
i2mo. pp. XII. 20, Boston: Little Brown
IJGETs AND SHADOWS OF LIFE on
THE PACIFIC COAST. BY 5: u
Woods l2mo. PIP. sSi Funk n Nas
nails Company
The selection and Illustration OF the
eight papers that go to the making of
"Ip the Catskills" could not have been
intrusted 10 more sympathetic ana eN-
perienced hands than those of Mr. CHI
Ton Johnson. himself true lover OF 'he
open. with a long row of books TO MS
credit. Mr.. Burroughs makes us see
with him, listen with him. and. above
".
have grouped together his "reminiscences
Of the Catskill country as it was in his
early days. the essays centring in the
ancestral Burroughs homestead at RoX-
bury. He takes us around the seasons
opening with his capital chapter on the
countryside in winter. The Snow Walk
trs".
He who mnrvels at the beauty Of the
world in summer will iind equal cause LOT
wonder and admiration In winter ne SIl- SIM
picitv OF winter has deep moral. Inc re-
fUrn Of nature after such career cl
splendor and prodisality TO naoits So 80 S,im, M
pie and austere is not lost either upon nc
head or the heart II IS the phhosa.er
coming back from The banquet anu VI.
wine TO q cup Cf water and crust ~
hread And then this beautiful masquerade
q! the clements-the novel DISCUSSES our
nearest friends put on Here is another
rain and another dew. water that VIII not
fow. nor spill, nor receive the taint OF an
same old benefcence and Willingness 7"
serve lurk beneath
MI Johnson's camera, il need hardly
b. said. has found the spots that truly
illustrate the authors beautiful noun
tain country in its many moods
Mr. stanton Davis Kirkman has his
own method OF making us see with him.
appreciate and understand. His is not
the method Of analysis. but of the broad,
:mpressionistic stroke. and yet he proves
himself q close student Of fora and
fauna. ratient observer and true lover
o. the Wild life OF nature 1t is to make
Us better acquainted with the infinite
variety Of our country's natural beauties
that he gives us East and West and
We follow him and make his moods our
own on granite ribbed Cape Ann. in the
Adirondacks. at Onteora in the Cats
kills.. q spot so quiet according 10 Mark
Twain. that zone can hear the women
change their minds there; through
Long Island woods. into tie chapaual
o. California. The Arizona desert. the
Grand Canyon. into tie pastoral charm
of the East" and the heroic charm Of
the West:
There is q splri, Of the West. some
thing IN the Wcstorut country capable Of
satisfying that IN MS which tho East ior-
over leaves unsaushed. We need the dis
tauce the great silent spaces some time IN
tho year: we need its color-its savage IedS
and yeilovs. its opal desert UNITS. me
aboriginal self IN ne comes 10 tn" fore, that
primitive. rntTammeled. man who must
have room and brOaG vistas ana silenCe,
Who = no; content with hills ana BROOKS
but demands mountain chains the foreSt
and the desert for his portion. who IS al
home IN tng ~plendld untam9d' SaVdse
West Equally. 7 think We need our SreeIl
little world Of tho East. its meadows ana
pasture. i's old orchards and bees ana
Vreu~.
Mr. Kirkman IS blessed in being abr
70 follow the direction Of his moods.
His book should hc i'm the hands Of al!
youn2 Americans. whose first impulse is
too often toward Europe rs for us of
tho East. We have found no other part
o. IL So impressive as its pages devoted
% the North Atlantic i'm its stern attack
upon the grim rocks Of the Massa-
chusetts coast.
Tho delight of Nj. Packard's Florida
Trails" lies iu the freshness Of its i'm
rrossione. The work of Young man.
ono would Judge. on his first trim from
homo. enjoying q holiday with infinite
zts, for every novelty it offered. for
every discovery il Welded. eager 10 com
r~rc tho reality with the knowledge oh
taiucd from much reading. But Mr..
Packard is au eX7eIouce6 traveller and
writer With an cnviablc resilicncy,
beneficial Gift of forgetting tho work left
behind in the pleasures of hard Won
vacation T. Is nothing nov hc has to
teH Us in tho matter of facts hut his
happ- wav ~ seeing them and present
Ing them to US sJffices. whether II be
The darkies and tho allgators. tho peli-
car and herons or the orange groves
snl banana plants. or razorba cks. He
hunted with his eyes. carving revolver
onlv for the emeIgency of an encounter
Win RATHER and entomology is nm
pistakab by his hobby.
NJ Neihsrd' opens the account Of his
trim down the Nlssouri in . motor boat
uith ~ enthueiastic outburst IN honor If
the epi- of the old West. Of its conquest
By nan since the DAYS # the fur traders
He scorns he petty war over faith
less wife" tha, gave MS the "Iliad." and
the wa ndcrines 81 petty king among
pOOKc AND plJBlICATiONS