New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-09

from Washington IrvinEs "cl
oring of the younger poets in the
traditional holiday fashion has its
significance. A third singer, the
Canadian Robert w. Service, is dis
tinguished in the same way in an
edition de luxe of his Rhymes OF a
Rolling Stone" with colored plates
(Dodd, Mead & Coz.
This year, as last, our illustrators
have devoted some of their best
work to the establishment OF books
of travel, especially books of travel
at home. The war has forced US to
rediscover our own country and its
treasures of the picturesque. Ernest
Peixotto has travelled in Our His
panic Southwest" (Charles Serb
ner's Sons) and gives us the results
Of his observations and enthusiasts
in picture and print, one OF the most
delightful Of his many wandering
tones. John A. Seaford's drawings
for Hildegarde Hawthorne's "Old
Seaport Towns of New England"
(Dodd, Mead & Coz deserve appre-
ciative and grateful mention. And,
after their delightful custom, Louise
Closer and Walter Hale have COM
bined pen and pencil in 1--WE Dis
cover the Old Dominion"
The illustrator of Robert Shackle-
tons Book OF Boston" r. L. Boyer,
has truly caught the state OF mind
as we'll as the outward aspect OF the
city in all its infinite variety OF old
and new penn Publishing Com
pany). The Middle West has its day
in our magazines and in our civic
consciousness. Theodore Dreiser's
chronicle Of his visit home, "A
Hoosier Holiday" John Lane, de-
serves more extended consideration
at a future day than can be given to
it here and now. Suffice it to say
meanwhile that the book is worth
reading, and that illustrator and pub
Usher have given it a handsome set
ting Oohn Lane Company.
Paul Wilstach's Mount Vernon
Doubleday, Page & Coz is worthy
of its subject. The elaborate illus
trations are mostly from photo
graphs, as are those OF Nevin o..
Winters Texas the Marvellous" in
the we'll known Seeing America
First Series, and OF Mrs. Lars An
dersen's The Spell Of the Pacific
Islands," both published by L. {.
Page & Co. Katharine Fullerton
Gerould's Hawaii (Scribner), pub
lished earlier in the season, deserves
honorable mention here, and the
heartiest of recommendation. 1t is
an enchanting, romantic book on its
enchanting, romantic subject.
George Wharton Edwards has
made a thoroughly artistic work OF
his Vanished Towers and Chimes
OF Flanders" with its numerous
large colored plates penn Publish
ing Company. An invitation to 60
wandering with E. V. Lucas will
ever find the cor.noisseur ready to
accompany him. To those who have
ere now wandered with him in his
magic little volumes the announce
ment of more Wanderings in Lon
don" George II. Doran Company
will suffice. Those who never yet
have had the privilege Of his COM
panionship cannot do better than
seek it now. They will travel with
him through his earlier books wher-
ever he has gone.
A wanderer of more robust type
is Harry A. Franck, whose Tramp
ing Through Mexico, Honduras and
Guatemala" the Century Company
has just issued.
THE CARTOONISTS
The search for caricatures OF the
Napoleonic era has brought to light
such quantities of material that the
hope of a complete collection is not
likely ever to be realized. The Eng
lish field has been fairly thoroughly
covered, but that is only the begin
ming. Only shortly before the out
break Of this greater war, which
overshadowed the centenary memo
ries of the Corsican and his con-
quests, a new mine of unsupported
richness was discovered in Russia
Collectors have grown wise. They
no longer collect what the past has
left TO the present; they systemat-
;callv search the present.i order to