New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12

tics, art, literature, the stage, the opera
and the dance-a few foreigners, Eng
lish, Italian and Russian, are included
is one of the most welcome of the
Christmas books. Mr.. Flagg is n CAPT
tai portraitist and a sharp-sighted
caricaturist, as witness his caricatures
here Of William Jennings Bryan, John
Drew, Ethel Barrymore, Cyril Maude
as Grumpy, and that of Caruso as
Canio, reproduced on this page.
Among his portraits those of Rose
O'Neill, Louise Closer Hale and James
L. Ford may be mentioned; and then
again the caricatures of Shaw and Irwin
Cobb, who tells the best stories about
the worst niggers," and whose reputa-
tion for veracity as a war correspond
ont stands higher than ever with those
who know him. For the rest, this is a
comprehensive gallery Of our younger
men as they really look, or as they look
TO Mr.. Flagg among them Percy
Mackaye. Henry Sydnor Harrison,
Booth Harrington, George Barr Nc
Cutcheon, Julian Street, and, scattered
among them, such older celebrities as
Colonel Roosevelt, Charles Dana Glib
son, and, as frontispiece, President
Wilson. The dancers represented are
Pavlova and the Castles. Mr.. Flagg is
as ready with his pen as he is with his
pencil. The brief descriptions accom-
panying some of these drawings are
amusingly to the point. Taken alto
gether, the book is worth having and
keeping.
Mr.. Michael's visit to Spain-it was
not his first is as entertaining in his
text as it is colorful in his pictures.
This is the record of happy, leisurely
holiday, drenched in sunshine. There
is nothing of the guide book about il.
The artist-author trusts that what in
terested him will interest his readers,
and he is seldom mistaken. He is
frankly interested in bullfghting, still
more in hullfghters, to the greatest of
whom he devotes a glowing chapter
whose record goes back all the way to
the eighteenth century. Otherwise the
mood of manana pervades these pages,
an atmosphere Of rest and of the open,
even in the old towns. The water
colors, too, have the true atmosphere
Of the country and its people. There
is here, for instance, capital sketch
of q Manchecan shepherd, leather
skinned, burly-truly a national type;
and another of a gypsy of Granada,
and third full of the holiday spirit
Of the occasion, "On the Way to the
Bullfght." Mr.. Michael is strangely
indifferent, it appears, to Spanish fem
irine beauty: no Andalusian dancer
graces this book, yet those who have
seen il never weary OF SPANS h dancing.
not even in this day of Pavlowa. The
pictures Of places have individuality
kau ~ lrar
spots as Grenada.
II is not so much Edinburgh Castle
az the pageant Of Scotch history OF
which IL was the setting which Mr..
Weirter celebrates in his book. He
deyotes m Introductory chapter TO pre-
historic days. but begins his chronicle
with St. Margaret, the wife Of Malcolm
III. the son Of Duncan whom Macbeth
slew Sicges and assaults by the Eng
Itch. Sir william Wallace and Robert
Bruce, quarrels Of the clans. the es-
cane from the castle of the Duke OF
Albany, held prisoner there by his
brother, James III, Mary Stuart's resi-
dence there he brings the event in
closest connection with the scene in
word and Illustration. There are TWEEN
ty-fve OF these large olates, from
dungeon TO turret, peopled here and
there by the authors imagination with
the men and women who played their
parts there. Edinburgh Castle has
been described and depicted oftener,
one thinks, than any other stronghold
Of history, but this result OF a genu-
inc enthusiasm for its romance IL de-
cidedly not a work Of supererogation.
SIR. Folkard has pictured the story
of the irreyerent iackdaw OF Rheiml
with much humOr in a series OF large
brightly colOred drawings, which are
most satisfactorily reproduced. The
book is altogether beautifully got up.
with its generous type page eleveriy