Evening star., 1924-10-04
The Library Table
BY THE BOOKLOvER

more satisfying and certainly more
soothing than association with man.
They love the countryside which has
no automobile highway running
through it. the seacoast far away
I, from summer resorts and the streams
| mountains and primeval forests which
have not been reached by the rail-
way, roads or even broadly marked
trails. With some the love of the
mountains and deep woods becomes
| a ruling passing, and If they are city
dwellers, they return each year to
lose themselves for few weeks in
the forests Of some favorite section
AS they pack through the rough
balsams, over giant fallen trees. up
tho stony beds of brooks and along
the edges of cliffs, until they reach
the open top of some mountain from
which the view Is of wooded passes
lakes and ranges broken by dominant
peaks, except on one side which is
SCARED by the path of the lumber
man, they are likely to think: where
| every prospect pleases. and only man
is Vile
One man who thus loves the noun
tains and forests and has written
Of his pleasure in them is Robert S.
Wickham of Binghamton, n. Y, who
ras just privately published a small
| hook called "Friendly Adirondack
Peaks" Mr.. Wickham has for years
fpent his Augusts exploring in the
| wild spots hidden among these hills,
o be enjoyed only by packing" and
this book is the outgrowth of his
Journal. He has established a stand
ard for estimating the views from
diffe rent SUBMITS. namely, ''primeval,
wild beauty, unspoiled by the hand
Of man, or the elements. The ap-
plication OF this standard would re-
suit in discrimination against views
revealing indications of civilization
settlements cleared valleys and fields.
numbered country-and views marred
by fire scars" Applying this stand
ard he finds the views from Haystack,
Nipple Top and Santanoni the finest
in the Adirondacks. much finer than
the view from Marcy, the highest
peak, because from Marcy so much
civilization is evident-the cultivated
EIba Valley and Lake Placid village
in which a hotel is visible-as well as
the fire devastated Cascade Pass.
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The geologic age of the Adiron-
| dacks impresses Mr.. Wickham, as 1t
impresses many of US who often look
upon the scanned cliffs and gray,
stream worn boulders-"solid. Adiron-
N''~''
the rock strata OF the Rockies, the
Alps. or even Mount Everest herself,
so the biologists inform US, after
their recent studies of the compli-
Gated and fascinating geology of the
region" He says of Marcy: IL wish
we could keep him named Tahawus.
the Sky Splitter. 1t seems more ap-
propriate for the most ancient peak
on the earth's surface, very old when
ol lc. cYi han p In m
his time-worn breast plants of near
glacial times. little scars left after
wearily enduring the last ice sheet
intruding upon his solitude - plant
life now found only in Lapland and
points north"
The author Of THE Mirror of Wash
ington." Clinton w. Gilbert, veteran
Washington correspondent. has ana
lyzed the presidential and vice presiden-
tial candidates of 1924 in a book
called you Takes Your Choice" He is
not markedly enthusiastic over any
of the candidates. OF President Cool
idge he says: He is practical enough
to see that radicalism and conserva-
tism don't mix. honest enough to be
frankly conservative, and shrewd
enough to realize that conservatism
may pay in 1924. He says
the things that men want to have
said Mr.. Davis he calls "the most
sweetly reasonable candidate that has
ever been offered for the presidency"
He admires La Follette's fighting
qualities. Most men," he says. "at
his age have bowed a little to time.
He bows to nothing. You
may as well tell him to be careful
of his enemy. Wall Street, as to con-
slider his other enemy. the flying
years" Mr.. Gilbert finds equally
trenchant things to say about the
seekers after vice presidential office.
He considers Gen. Dawes "a conform
ist with such zest that he seems to
be following his own sweet will. He
holds all the accepted ideas with
such passion that they seem to be
original with him" Cen Dawes has
however, the progressive characteristic
of restlessness. He is always seek
ing to do something else.
In the conformist Dawes there is
bottled up an individualist." Of Gov
Bryan he says: He believes in Will
liam J. as William J. believes in Cen
esis. If necessary he would
monkeys to prove that William J. was
right"
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"The Book of the Queens Dolls
House." edited by A. c. Benson and Sir
Lawrence Weaver and made up of ar
ticleS by various authors gives a COM
plete description Of that wonderful toy
shown at the Wembley exposition under
the auspices of the Queen of England.
The dolls house, which is a reproduc-
tion in miniature on scale of | inch
to foot Of twentieth century May
fair mansion, is not mere toy or trick
of ingenuity, but is a historical docu-
ment of the domestic life of this age
If some one in each century of the past
had left a similar model, what a help
these models would have been to his
torians and artists of all types 1.-The
Book of the Queens Dolls House" de-
scribes each room and it's contents, from
the dining room with it's diminutive
china and silverplate services and the
kings bedroom with its bathroom, con-
tanning green marble tub with six
faucets that actually work, to the wine
cellar stocked with tiny bottles Of wines
and cordials and the garage with its
pigmy Rolls Royce. Probably the most
interesting room in this amazing dolls
house is the library 'paneled from floor
to cornice in walnut, with deeply re-
cessed bookcases" In these bookcases
are several hundred beautifully bound
small volumes for the use of the 6-inch
inhabitants of the house. Most of the
books were specially written for the
dolls house by the authors and are in
their own handwriting. Almost every
well known English writer is represent
ed except H. G. Wells. There are also,
on the little tables, midget periodicals,
including the London Times, Punch
and Country Life. In the dolls house
many of them in the library, are more
than 700 miniature water colors,
drawings and prints by famous Eng
lish artists.
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