The New York herald., 1922-10-15


shaw Thomas Y. Crowen Company.
LAST DAYS IN NEW GUINEA. BY Capt.
c. A w. Monckton. F. r. q. 8. Dodd.
Mead G Co.
UP AGAINST 1T IN NIGERIA. By Langa
Langa- E. p. Dutton & Co
GREEK LANDS AND LETTERS. BY Fran
els q. and Anne C. e. Allinson Second
Edition Houghton Mifflin Company.
TWENTY YEARS IN RUMANIA By Maude
Parkinson. Z. p Dutton & Co.
N the autumn readers fancies turn to
travel books. This year the season
brings a venturous brood. for the
most part bravely titled. In the case of
''The Cruise of the Hippocampus" our
plaint would be that the name does not
adequately suggest the content, the roister-
ing blow me down log Of the stanch little
broad wasted yawl, manned by three good
| friends. one of whom spins a tale well
seasoned with salt and an excellent brand
of humor
At sea we are the veriest lubber We
always get sick. and we don't know a huff
from boom. But THE Cruise of the Hip
pocampus" interested us to the last line.
and will you. if You are susceptible to
spanking phrases like "scandalizing a
mainsail." or taking a trick at the stick
while the crew cork anticipating a stormy
night" We learned a lot, too, about sea
and coast life between New Rochelle and
Balboa, at the sunset end of the Panama
Canal. Experienced boatmen who have
seen cruise like this in their dreams will
| find in the book much practical informa-
ton and hints innumerable how to meet
and surmount emergencies.
The author already had a reputation as
motor navigator when he got himself a
sailboat with an auxiliary engine and set
forth with Joe Chambers. an ex-subchaser
man from Salem, Mass, where they sail
boats the day after leaving the cradle"
and hardy Nova Scotian named Paul
] Squibb From spring to autumn they
shared the joy of the sea road and had
so many adventures that the covers Of the
book fairly bulge with them.
The cruise was not undertaken ito prove
anything or to establish any precedent in
small boat sailing" 1t was Just get
there cruise" and the author mentions
with tustifable pride that the tiny yacht
1 built at Nyack on Hudson was the smallest
boat from distant port that ever did get
through the Panama Canal
Expert motorboat man, Loomis came
back to New York converted for good to the
| destinations of long distance sailing, and IL
you give him a chance he'll convert you.
/ too.
! DR.. Warshaws volume on The New
Latin America" surprises the reader an
through by not being as tedious as he ex-
poets 1t to be. The author himself In his
foreword seems apprehensive that facts
and figures may become monotonous But
the effect is the opposite We find the
narrative more exciting than most novels,
because big facts about new fast growing
countries must always outrun in fascina-
ton stark fiction.
A citizen of the United States travelling
in Spain and Portugal. and speaking with
native assurance of the wonders Of "Amer-
ica," frequently meets the question, Which
American" We are put in our places by
being properly referred to as North Ameri-
Gems. When We read an up to the mo-
ment detailed, authoritative treatise on
South American progress like DIR. War
shaw's we understand why our presump-
tiOn and assumption are resented in the
netherlands Of our neighbor continent
The author sets us right as to common
misconceptions about American Latins,
and impresses us with the necessity of
ridding our minds Of unjust prejudices If