New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
~ Isabel Paterson

I. TNIIIINNNNE
seem liberal allowance. but the
,amber OF modes Of writing travel
rmi.ed only by the number Of trav-
~ =. decide 20 write. However, there
- ,roper spirit in which the enter
,lsuld be attempted.
IA Be undertaken not as duty, but
,e Your traveller must set out,
= rl,phsnts Child. filled with "ssu-
- .s..,ty.~ He nost be eagerly rccep-
2. 80. quite eredulous- He must be ami
- .li,,o,ed toward his involuntry hosts;
a4F,, tolerant ~ strange eustems. but
I" ,l,m; and. ike JurEen, ready to
1 - drink once. Ne should be in no
-. !, .rrive at any fixed goal strsitened
~ l.Aule. nor blissful impossibility
eopsiderstion Of expense. he
- 10 pssssss the historical sense.
mingiing or erudiion and imsg-
-. -. And il he cen write Psssably, 80
v.sl ,he better.
-. r,euirencnts may seem eHOrbitant;
-. "a more than fair. They are
~ .,,. trade goods. n he goes with
" x,llsi h is apt to return in the
- ' "a, The SAHARA will be to him only
'1'e ,,i-s,hl, stretch Of sand. and America
A. 49,. ear three thousand miles long.
s.-s,,,rs often end their books won
80, .hy they went abroad; and il they
..,t he reader does.
=. z,hm Is the right kind OF traveller,
.,.,s,iss al o. the necessary qualities. in
i 80, or less degree His itinerary, be-
i .,;re AZ Berlin and ending in the Garden
! = Ven. is. q good promise, sifording, as il
1 ~. ii, fullest flavor OF contrast. Further
!. ,ould hardly 20, Gguratively speaking.
"a. snsl touch Of glamour IS added by the
,,,.leSee that this voyage represents the
,.bs,sion Of q long-eherished hope. boy
ssd dream.
THUS equipped, it is no wonder that he
risred from prowling lovingly through
4, rsirs Of the immemorial East with full
,,.Yl cargo Of strange and interesting facts
"a fsneies. colorfui landscapes, vivid frag-
M, Of the past. legend and history duly
..lsd. ivory and apes and peacOeks' and
eka peculiar treasures OF kings" Those
n, insist upon a niggsrdly order and pre-
s,sr nay complain Of an excess Of such
"a plunder. finding Frederick Barbarossa,
nrrlntine the Great and Semirsmis in be-
rSsring juxtaposition. But which should
r hhm have omitted? He trod in the foot
or, Of al these illustrious dead and their
asiss importuned him for some mention,
ry,ver seant. Loving them all, he could
r.se none. He saw time unrolled like a
esn On his chosen path For this is a
rsst.tfodden way. II is the road over which
he lsgions OF Europe and Of Asia have surged
sad md forth for thousands Of years in
uiyrg tides Of battle and commerce; it is
As great worlds highway.
To ne his method approves itself. do
not even object to a certain quantity forid
srd oldfashioned style which smaeks Of the
At century. When DR.. Zahm prolOg6es:
But Why, the reader will ask, did ! elect
as more roundabout route?" do not in
suupt by saying that ! didn't ask. And
sAsa he answers "in the words Of Ovid
tisiis errare loeis." etc, | am pleasee
. fnd that he has translated the words Of
Oyid for otherwise wouldn't know an!
ure than | did in the first place. This u
courtesy for which am grateful through
r., the book; he almost always translates
i classical references.
Not one item Of the information he i'm
arts so genially would / willingly spare
snetimes even more would be acceptable
Ym instance, when he comes to the German
Wshalla. that marble Pantheon erected by
rad Ludwig Of Bavaria near Ratisbon, ht
nys
q, Is The use Of the word German in its
trsd historic and chronological sense that