New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-23
ARROAn AND AT HOME.

EUROPE RLvIsED p, Ir- : COBB uus,r,,,
81 br McCu,crson 50 81. ~ &C.. George II
Dorsn Company
ABROAD At HoME BY Julian S,rc,t nu'i-si
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Csntuy COMPANY
ROUND 11{F WONDERFUL WORLD By q.
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vi 800 q. r. Putnam seas
4 change has come within the last
ten years over our attitude toward
Europe. and with 4, one hopes, an end
70 the output Of tho volumes Of sduia-
tory enthusissms which hitherto have
been the chief product Of each season s.
American hegirs 20 the Old World. In
fact. We have turned the tables. Tor
whereas once Europe Judged as. usual
" IS superciiously IS specifically
We o. to-day 20 thither 10 compare
and TO return. on the whole, justlhably
well satisfied with our own ways and
their results for the good Of the great
est number Our magic museum Of
the past the Old World still remains;
its multiple picturcsQuencss yields hu;
slowly. II inevitably. 90 the uniformity
OF modern civilization. but VIC are be
coming Increasingly prooccup'ed with
practical concerns OF to-day and TO
morrow; the mstcrisl conditions o.
the nov interest Us more vitality than
what has been snd never will be sgair
than what is becoming to US IN our
New World q vanishing tradition.
Irwin Cobb, having seen America
first and pronounced judgment IN favor
OF the real West, where the man Is
the eowd for q that" against the
last. which worships the Guiness
stamp and is busily multiplying II In
imitation Of Rn older civilization
Irwin Cobb has written down his i'm
pressions OF his first trip 20 Europe.
lie started without awe, but slso with
out prejudices; he has returned WIN
the conviction that home S best ior
The American, and with. further,
vivid impression that other NATIONS
homes would be decidedly the better
for the introduction o. r good meas
urc OF Americsnism IN their social 20
liIcsl and economic affairs. DO the
treatment OF their women, in the dis
semination of bathtubs, snd even ln
tho matter OF cookery Also IN the srt
Of making coffee. Determined not 10
fall into the error Of those European
visitors of ours who stay six weeks
and then Judge US with coobsureness
that irritates us no longer, he has I'M
mistakably refrsined from saying
many things he might have said and
from hazardous CONGRATULATIONS oesed
upon concrete instances. Most OF all
has he avoided saying the tradition
ally proper thing. In tho matter o.
ruins and old masters, for instance.
On these subjects nc shakes HANDS
across the wears with the chronicler
OF the trip OF The Innocents Abroad
This. then. is the record Of the OK
periences Of the average American VINO
takes a trip abroad, 4 record without
sttitudinizing. respect for Baedeker
stars. or aesthetic pretence. Il IS the
EXPRESSION Of the impression brought
home bv innumerable tourists who have
lacked Mr.. Cobb's courage 20 tell the
truth-an his pen. For he is not only
humorist, ne is an artist m words a.
well. One regrets that he has not
given free rein oftener here 70 his
genuine gift Of description. 4 sugges-
tive bit OF the Austrian Alps mere, a
gorgeous blot OF color and sunshine m
Naples elsewhere. again reminiscent
word or TWO about the English land
scspe. this is all he gives US. After
all. the Europe OF the touring Amer
cans consciousness is largely one Of
hotels. railroads and discomforts. The
night life Of the capitals he eTplodes
once more: that OF Berlin is as tswdry
a. artificial, as dull Is that OF Paris.
And as for laying IN supply Of clothes
while IN London Gin the matter Of
outer hsbiliments the American man
wins the decision on points nearly
every vhsck.'
An entertaining book. one without
prcjudices, except when IL comes 20 the
cunning way in which English and
German and Austrian sportsmen dress
for shooting, q book whose American
humor is based on sound American
common sense.
Much in the same spirit has Julian
Street travelled Abroad 81 Home.
Not that he ever succeeded in feeling
abroad. indeed, what strikes one most
forcibly in these pages Is the funds-
mental uniformity OF our national life
amid the changing aspects Of cities
and landscape. Like Mr. Cobb, Mr.
Street is concerned more with urban
than with rural life, and more with
people than with anything else
Still. II IS one Of his hobbies 10 trace
the wave Of artistic civic improvement
across the continent. He has much 10
say Of park systems and civic centres,
or public and private art galleries
DO you care for art ." he asked Mr.
Ford, Of Ford car fame. ~ won't give
five cents for al the art in the world.
said Mr. Ford without a moments
hesitation Mr. Street has made an in
teresting collection OF munici pa
SLOGANS: "ln Kalamazoo We Do,
"In Detroit Life Is Worth Living
Make Kansas City = Good Place "a
Live In etc. 81. Louis has no slogan
u has the Drew Question instead
Mr.. Streets chapter on this city is
one OF the best in his book; Chicago
with its energy and striving, is Itself
one long slogan.
A New Yorker could not have writ
ten this book. for the attitude Of New
York toward the rest Of the country is
stil largely, though with rapid!
dwindling justification IL il ever haC
much, d humorous one. The city Ions
since lost its right 10 this attitude
Mr.. Cobb put il, along with all nj
East. In its place in "Roughing i ID
Luxe" To be sure, he elects TO liv'
with Us, and so does NJ. Street, wh'
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