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Little Temptations t(
Good Be
THE KING'S TREASURIES OF L.ITEK-V- s
TURK. A Library. Edited by Sir A. T. <
Quilier Couch. E. P. Dutton & Co. j
THESE are the first volumes of a series of
literary classics intended to sup. !
plcment Everyman's library. They ;
will doubtless be used both in school work 1
and for general reading. Although the
younger public is aimed at, the books are in
no sense Juveniles. Indeed, the .commuter \
or one who does part of his reading on sub- 1
way or street car will be glad of the pocket '
size. .
It would be a narrow and essentially false j
view that questioned the wisdom of a fre- i
quent reissue of tne older literature because
this might hurt the sale of newer books. ,
The fact is, nothing helps the progress of (
any art like a renewal of interest in its great '
past. The Renaissance began in a redlsoovery
of the Greek classics. When men (
cease to care for Shakespeare they will place (
no value upon the newest poet. The whole 1
meaning of the Rupert Brooke story is its (
revelation of the undercurrent of fepling for
poetry, of reverence for the office of the
poet. If it had not been for the great tradition,
Brooke's death would have roused no ,
such response in millions of hearts.
The first group of books, twenty-one volumes,
includes that father of English song,
Chaucer; its greatest master, Shakespeare.
The Rarest A
THE STORY OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE. By
Hugh Lofting. Frederick Stokes Company. 1
Reviewed by ANNIE CARROLL MOORE
of the New York Public Library.
NO, it isn't to be found in any of the 1
Thornton Burgess books, nor has
Dr. Hornaday ever succeeded in
capturing one for the Bronx Zooldfeical
Park. It was unknown even to Theodore
Roosevelt, although I feel sure it would
u*\t* u^iiguLcu uuu IU icau ttuuui uic a. iJ
pearance and habits of this strange animal.
"Pushml-pullyus" are now extinct,
Hugh Lofting informs us In this moat original
of nonsense and animal stories since
the Just-So Stories of Kipling. "But long
ago. when Doctor Dolittle (John Dolittle,
M D.) was alive," he continues, "there were
some of them still left in the deepest
Jungles of Africa. They had no tail, but a
head at each end and sharp horns on each
head. They were very shy and terribly
hard to catch.
"The black men get most of their animals
by sneaking up behind them when they
are not looking. But you couldn't do this
with the pushmi-pullyu, because no matter
which way he came toward you he
was always facing you- And. besides, only
one-half of him slept at a time. The other
head was always awake?and watching.
Dr. Dolittle at home.
This was why they were never caught and 1
never seen in zoos."
There follows a fascinating description
' f the monkeys' search for a pushmi-pullyu
10 give to Doctor Dolittle in token of their
gratitude to him for coming all the way
from Kngland to cure an epidemic in 1
Monkey Land. The monkeys form a ring 1
about the pushmi-pullyu and ask Its consi
nt to go with Doctor Dolittle to the Land
of the White Men. "I notice." said the
F ' ,-vC
r ' xv >:vt' - '
7 I
Chi
5 Carry
>oks in the Pockei
ind an anthology of "Modern Poetry." Thi
;ontains a portrait of Rupert Brooke an
poems by Noyes, Kipling, Rupert Brook
Masefleld, Stevenson, Henley, Sir H. Xev
bolt, Robert Bridges, Yeats, Davidson, W. I
Blunt, Walt Whitman, Hardy. Walter ue j
Mare, Francis Thompson, Siegfried Sassooi
E. V. Lucas and others.
The volume headed with Chaucer's por
trait is really composed of little plays, oj
anated from famous stories and poems
!wo from Chaucer, others from Hawthorn
3cott, Hans Andersen, I^outsa Alcott an
Lewis Carroll.
In choosing the titles of the Initial vo
urnes there Is an evident purpose to creal
i well balanced list, so that with a score (
more of standard authors, such as Homo
Milton. Shakespeare, Ruskin, Tennyson an
athers, will appear the work of moder
writers whose genius entitles them to ret
Dgnitlon, so that the. reader rrbky follow tl
evolution of literature from the early classic
to the latest and finest examples of stoi
telling. Side by side are Milton's dark ep
af Satan?abridged?and Anna Sewall's ep
of a horse. "Blac.k Beauty"?quite a oiffei
ent kind of blackness!
There are Shakespeare's "Richard II." ar
a volume of happily combined passages froi
the plays, with prose renderings? narr
and Shakespeare," "Tales From Tolstoy
Macuulay's "Essay on Clive," "Tales Fro
Andersen," Kingsley's "The Heroes"?Pei
seus, Theseus and the Argonauts; "The I
Coverley Papers," Scott's "Last Minstrel
"The Chemical History of a. Candle," 1
Faraday: "Bee: Princess of the Dwarfs," 1
inimal of All
duck, who was standing by, "that you tal
with nnlv nnr? nf vnnr months. Can't tt
other heart talk as well?"' "Oh, yes," sa
the pushmi-pullyu. "But I keep the oth
mouth for eating mostly. In that way
can talk while I am eating without bein
rude. Our people have always been vei
polite."
Dear old Doctor Dolittle has many at
ventures on sea and land before he returr
to Puddleby-on-Marsh and the rare of h
own animals. He has grown rich in si?
pences and able to pay all his debts, than!
to the pushmi-pullyu. "Money," he sai
"is a terrible nuisance, but it's nice n<
to bave to worry."
"My entire family have been Dolittlin
for a fortnight," said a father, to whom
introduced it early in November. "The
quote from it all the time." The mothe
of another large family, who had listene
to the tale of the leader of the lions, r<
marked: "There's something beside
hrusework for me. I am going to buy the
uonttie dook to-morrow and read it 01
loud to my husband and children if I don
do another thing. It's a funny book, an
there's a good deal of information in it fir)
and last, but the best thing about it is tht
It is full of the feelings I want my chl
dren to have put intp such nice laniruaprHugh
Lofting first told this story to h
own children and the drawings and lnltl)
letters were first enjoyed by them. It
interesting to note also that he has live
In Africa. The book is attractively printc
with fascinating end papers and covt
design.
lack Horner and
Are Defii
AN ANCIENT MAPPE OF FAIRY LAN I
Peslgned and written by Bernard Slelg
E. P. Dutton & Co.
LATELY there ha# been a revival
fairies. Children's Week may 1
partly responsible or it may be tl
reaction after the war, but whatever It
we know of nothing more gravely worth
>f note in the literary and the Juvenile wor!
than the Moppe of Fairyland, designed ai
written by Bernard Hleigh. which is on ei
hibition in the Children's Room of tl
library.
The original was presented to New Yot
children by Ethel Sidgwiok, the novelist, an
In all It Is about six feet long and two fe<
wide, Just the right size to tit the children
tables so that even the littlest ones mn
look at It. Nothing has been left out froi
Valhalla to the Elysinn Field or from Prlai
to Fetor I'an and each beloved figure Is i
clearly drawn that you cannot possibly mil
inko It. The only one we could not tlnd w>
Tom Thumb, and that was only ltecause, .
the Mappe naively explaina, he waa real I
there, only he wan too email to draw.
There la the Sea of Dreams and Nigh I
naree T'olnt, and a tiny red path?whloh I
I Real estate that pays no taxes.
HE NEW YORK HERALD, SUND
aucer to Rut
T AnAtole Franco; "Alpha of the Plough"?es- la both a
lc says by A. G. Gardiner, "The Adventures of growth of
Odysseus," "A Child's Book of Saints," by arrangenu
1 William V/iiuiun; rjvergreen awrwa, num tuc
ancient literature; Hawthorne's "Wonder- as moderr
Kl book," Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies." In this 111
m , "The Lore of the Wanderer," an an- a new Sh
in thologv of the open air, with portrait of R. panionabh
" L. Stevenson, contains essays by Stevenson, recognize
m Hazlitt, Ruskin, Bacon, Sytnonds, Thomas, crasles of
Jeffries, Miss Mltford, Thoreau and ,Alan weaknesse
Je Sullivan. Its commentary deals with nature the compi
I." writing in English literature and with the nr\anitariai
>y authors of the essays in the book. A 3et work. I
>y of suggestive questions and selected themes constantlj
_ for composition follow. , rarely abf
- But with all the selections from Shake- These a
speare that have been made there was room, the shelv*
in the pocket and in the heart, for J. M. carry on
Dent's "The Shakespeare Progress.". This a part of
Ik =
la ^ Forest of
t't. r <imC and a gree
I By SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN. may^se
*Un? + A.1C.+ chr>,,lrl .rurr with the c
y ivouici iikiii i'iiat tuc tivtoi ouvum &?r> ^ ^
The son? too, when the singer is still? is?the V
J* To clutch the tail of the world and wag m modest
Upon its will; has achic
c- To hang upon its wayward tongue piece of \
Rather than sleep the slain among,
d,
>t To walk abroad at spectre-timc TU 1
Rather than stay securely laid, 1 DC J
And move, a rumor and a rhyme.
?y In action's shade;
To thrust at nothing with a name?
ld The shrugging generations'game. _
^ To cheat the dust in the hollow throat. || f 'M
n Live in the windy mouths of men, jum
t And in the stupid schoolboy's rote H&!
d .Be bom again; HI
To rear a shelter in the air jfijjra
i_ And thence til' assault of death to dare. -A HE
Is Oh, silly heart; oh, scheming brain! -.*!
it The pallid pillars of the breath, '
ls Time's love and laud are surely vain iLMg
^ 'Gainst conquering Death?
,r And yet how beautiful the strife Mp
Of passionate Life desiring Life! ?PjpCinderella
Jgl
i-i 1 t-ol \T T T n o f ^
LIILVl^ at JL/ct^L ^
5- all that a fairy path should bo?leads AjM
h. through Elfland to the Great Wall where fljJT
Mother Caroy is counting her chickens, an<l
jn back again through Mother Goose Land.
^ where we see all our old acquaintances and
' their country homes?La 1 telle Dormantc,
10 and Miss Muffet, Mary. Mary, and Jack and
Jill. There is even Humpty-Dumpty sitting
y on a wall, and near by?such Is the charm- UNCLE F
'd ing democracy of Fairyland?are Cadmus with Uli
u' and Proserpina, Leander and the god Pan Kemble.
c with the Golden Fleece hanging behind* htm -|-?v EOP
le on a tree. Along the way there are wishing I J
wells and fairy temples, elfln villages, and I
k the Fountain of Youth has several tribu- lh?
id taries. Standing on the shore you may look are as Ins
?t out and see all the ships of all the legends; Wfty a- T<
's the Shippe Ulysses took to Troy and that
y of Tristram of Lyonesse and the ill-fated ('orland."
m one with the black sails, where Thesous's tion by 1
in fsther broke his heart. The little hosts are turned fr
to there, too, the bowl that thq Three Wise Italy in I
b- Men of Gotham owned and the pea green
is boat in which the Owl and the Pussy Cat court
bs set out on their happy quest. The Lost City ,hf> period
ly of Atlantis Is sunk beneath the waves, and "In the
there is an Island where the sirens can be children's
t- seen laughing and having a Jolly time with grown fo
Is one another. You may travel through the Children?
fairy tale
-and lat
gj| and then
f Wondei
I was done
a great
;> cither. It
dip r.?;rJ
TjJTyt- /,. 4.mi>? //7."? ? C* fore they
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ffjHpfcr , tP "t * IngoMMv
lln^ ICT' > <? - w?i? fron,lthHi?
f '..?- Mr *? ' . plrn.t
under thr
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AY, DECEMBER 12, 1920.
>ert Brook
How t
a J there was a gi
she dlscouragl
This made mi
way of naggii
She began
home, and th<
true anthology and a study of the in case ho ha
the poet's mind and art by the I tried expl;
>nt of characteristic passages from enough to j;
in as nearly chronological order once came hi
1 scholarship enables its to 'attain./change doing
ttle hook many a reader will And advice to the
akespeare, a more credible, com- I shall never
? mind. As the compiler says, "You night on the
the recurrence of little idlosyn- While this ai
style and the gradual elimination of pression on 1
>s; and you realize as never before tlon, no doubi
filing and growing moral and hu- plan to live i
n fot-ce right to the end of the home too. /
have felt, too, the delight of the a letter to t!
' recurting lyric feeling that Is journey to N?
<ent from the plays." be content;
re books to live with, to keep on surrounding
>8 and tables close at hand and to (proving the
Journeys, till they become at last I would trav
the hook of our own lives. s;iv. resnecta
How to Pr
Arden and the Forest of Lyonesse r(18t j,
n, sunny place which proves to be muk a CX)t ii
i of the Hesperides, where Pegasus )jy my ^ed, n
>en tossing his mane and playing pitcher
entaurs. took was to
not know who Mr. Bernard Sleigh aftor our stri
iblishers seem to be holding him ^ave a long
obscurity?but it is certain that he primitive con
/ed a distinctive and imaginative f knew the v
vork, one which should hang on rhyme with
sery wall. on my cot wi
, an(J tejJ
, that I was
Immortality
Of Bre'r Rabbit JJXgZ
? MacQunrrie
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? 11:"" "' love
1*-'- ?;:*--:>%Nx: MacQuarrle I
?irv.-? ,k ,??, phHnf,,Pr Huprla. ,n5..wfJnf
..j . wniir ms TIIII
ustrntlons byt <\. H. Kroat and E. W. t)on. n hit w<
D. Appieton A Co. ,nto' v?|n obi
L.E don't iirciif about t'ncle Kemui would crnnt
they read htm. They also look at hard defln*
wf aet from
5 Frost and Kemble pictures which wIu>n h(, wrp
eparahle a part of the book In their the brown
mnid's pictures for "Alice In Won- humor Is tlm
This new edition has an introdue- *** ,not
thinks. Is q
'homas Nelson Pnke, who has re- British-like. 1
om his diplomatic experience in paints the se
time to art as ambassador at the modern touel
literature. He thus glances over "Intangible!
I preceding Harris: Alway
South in that time there were few I traveller
hooks. Books were mainly for America wltl
Iks and entirely for white folks. tfl freely adn
-some few?white children, had Spanish If bt
s?and In time came the Rollo books day's uymns
er the "Tales of a Orandfafher," about Spanis
Dickens and here and there "Alice we were om
rland." But In the main intellectual coast of Kps
(native food was handed down and with the verl
orally and by word of mouth, as Ms little boo
in ancient days?and still is done in fusing." Tf 1
art nf tlm world. Not a bad wa\ lr>a?bavond
1b, for it stirs the Imagination, cure?it will
? memory and leads to concentra- p. A. Sherv
ontinulty of attention. Among the has written
5puJation. nearest of all to Nature. "Glimpses i
the only way. Thus grew up Company), ?
em? much of It. perhaps, even be- the author n
left Africa?a body of tales which man who w
e to be termed folklore, and thus the right p
me trained story tellers. And this hemisphere
age's analysis of the new values rooms with i
t?d by the group of whkfh Harris est man. I i
ding figure: odd conslderl
he who, with Irwin Russell, first hla preface t
hat there was that In the South erary was n<
ring of and those there who knew he met with
II It. Cable came too with his "Old book was noi
ys," and then others followed, writ- not designed
it they knew and as they felt; free I like aut
>M trammels, slmjflc. sincere, light- track, for t
i humor and touched with sentl- heat points a
1 thus came a new and original Otherwise dil
More than this, they broadenod Keen chosen
oth the North and the South and of tremendr
bridge a void, wider than would travellers h'
elleved." snatch at <
lum? should bs read first In the book with hi
Imitlve man, by the picture writing mentor over
>rat|ons that frame the pages, the penditures a
jtns and the lively lhtle sketches In a nee as well
Then while the stories are read ous word?'
es will run along line ? good dog stands for 01
wagon. If they do run out and my money 1
only makes a livelier trip. "Intangibles.'
"0 ABOU
:o See the Wide
While Takin
J1SE CLOSSER HALE. kept
!0. by The New York Heralk. alth'
ih friend asked me recently If taat
tabic
Idn't feel a trip "coming on. to j,
when I replied very firmly cess
she said she had told my for- j
as going on a Journey where ghei
reat deal of liquid about, which r-our
Ingly interpreted as sea water. ?aS|
b very nervous, for she has a my
ng you into all kinds of enter- over
it she can triumphantly an- vj8j(
ihe had seen the whole trans- Sp]?.
cards some time ago. that
sending me travel books and puj
after a sleepless night (I was pc
topless nights as the "fortune" with
ras going away for insomnia) ?
had read them, although she Arm
well that books on travel aro grPt
ittl th?i voyager is on the way rujn
en just to cheek up the writer tiiro
s misrepresented anything. 'may
aining to her that I wasn't well t0 '
;o forth adventuring. She at j)eoj;
?ck with that old wheeze of a an(j
one good?which is a lie. My a0 n
i sleepless is to stop at home.
1 forget those dogs barking all Ont
roofs of the "Garden of Allah":
rgument of mine made no im- ji(
her It did on me?self-sugges- jC
t?for I began laying a stealthy ,.onf
ip to the "fortune" and stay at j j
tnd the next day she received ?
, _ , . ?4ll o
he effect that I had gone on a t t
sw Jersey, so I hoped she would %V ||,
that I was surrounded by and tr'a(
liquid, for I was at a milk cure
efficacy of the cards) and that
el with the authors, one might ~ .
bly and de luxe. a
onounce "Tahiti"? the
Is It a Town or an Island? San<
1 the silence of rustling trees, two:
t the sun, milk, a student lamp the
lilk, lights out, groping for the cam
?spilt milk. The first trip I firm
Tahiti because we Americans, It
jggle with European diplomats, reat
Ing at present for extremely thei
ditions. I chose it, too, because Dre
rord was pronounced Tightie to c-n
nightie. 1 liked to heave over (Sh
hile pouring out my tenth glass cur<
e mystified rotter on my left won
reading "Tightie Days." Then For
id watch him struggle for a Pen
ic title. D,ai
ested in "Tahiti Days" also be- look
I it had been written by Hector find
I DO ran). IN O W H. wan mio
,iio Hot me right about the pro- of i
Tahiti (which stays insistently u*li
is a town and not an island). I coui
seem to meet every one. in my V
i, and I was not feeling: as kind- lowi
1 then as I do now?having read thai
shin* the influenza hospital in it w
was a most delightful person? the
I?for he had so filled my tent- acr<
tar with stories of rahinea, land I
alas and sharks that he?the Ain
ced the Immediate closing of t-hei
and his prompt departure with nctc
isles of the blessed. He called told
nd In tho bitterness over losing wro
hought it was a very good name uroi
rber. The
wife sat down on the whole ask
however; his manager never rigl
isten to it. and three gallons of Doc
eased down "Tahiti Days," I Dre
thed. As invited by the author, you
e. I went riding with him on a I?"
?only Rupert Hughes puts it and
lat. Rupert rails it ruggy-rtaing.
the actual quality of the young
nment that 1 did not find the
or of an unreality that was not j
0 if wo would get off the carpet on
boat. It was all quite possible.
1 some books on the South Seas aoo
ermlnation never to go there?
ntnient could follow the printed an(j
llness. Ruggy-rhllng with Mr. so ,
s a varied trip, his eye embrac- j.
le&utiful. his heart what is good, tra
id?the mind of an old clvlllza- jHn
irn, a bit jaded?is not to be led mP(
latlons over what the emotions vol]
frankincense and myrrh. It Is
the effect of sophistication that ton
I the pen of a British subject
e? of other peoples, particularly nnf
races and New Yorkers. His
ted by it, yet in no way tainted. mu
condescend; he loves the simple ?R|
ulck to recognize the shams. wh(
he does not mind the shams, and ma
enes and incidents with casual, poc
hes of whimsical fancy. au,
?O Glorious Word!?
s Make Allowances for Them >'?l
I?at my milk cure?to South raiJ
h a good deal of misgiving. It *
lifted that one had better know 0
lying tickets will be part of each
istlcs, and I feel a good deal t
h as a brother voyager did while ' j
'0 approaching the rock bound ^
iln. "I can get along all right *,nt(
b 'to be,"' he confided, clutching lp
ks, "but the verb 'to are' is con- ftnv
; ever go at all to South Amer- ^(n
my six gallon visit at the milk r|(Ii
be under the guidance of Mr. fl ?
rood?and wife. Mr. Sherwood< (nj]
an Illuminating book entitled'
if South America" fCentury t)ni
ind. one could add. glimpses of
is well, for If there ever was a ^or
ould buy the right tickets for
lace throughout the Southern fn ,
and see that his party had bed- con
vlndows to them, it is this mod- j
repeat modest, although It looks
Ing the noun it Is modifying. In the
he author declares that his itin- <<1n?
it off the beaten track and that "rr
only the usual experiences. The *pa
[ designed for that?"In fact was Ye.?
at all,'' which Is a mental relief. Mil
Vices ttthft va i l t** i\f t he. Koa c, n \. _.
ho track Is worn because th* ecu
re soon slnn* this narrow vmd the
fforent paths would have In time for
Also It is maddening to read con
ius experiences all the other mil
ive had and you never get a wai
Dn' could very well carry this pie:
m as a guide to the feet and a plei
the purse The necessary ex- hea
re defined and he makes allow- Crs
for the "intangibles"?oh. glorl- U t
which to the South American res
ir "Incidentals " That Is where he|
ins always been spent, on the am
The satisfaction of ths word all
s
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T AUTHORS
World
g the Milk Cure
me happy all through our visit to Lima
ough I was disappointed over the neglect
was the portion of my favorite vegcs,
the lima bean. The nearest approach
t was green candles In a religious proIon.
travelled down the West Coast with Mi.
wood?and wife?only by continual rose
to the map to keep it from being tht
Coast. As a child, as soon as I closed
geography Peru and Chile would climb
from the Pacific and, in my mental
)n. settle down along the Atlantic, rendent
in solid yellow and firm pink. And
is one of the childish things I have not
away.
>rhaps had the invaders been contented
i slaughtering the natives on the Atlanleahoard
the prehistoric centre of South
:rica would yet be undiscovered. I re
ted that I could not stay longer at these
s of the Incas* Empire. The visit lasted
ugh but a glass of milk. I hope we all
see these master buildings, everlasting
the everlasting skies, of an unknown
ile. They say it makes off "feel small,"
there Is nothing the North American is
luch in need of just now as humility.
i South American Buyer
Foiled the Nitrate Profiteer
owever, it has not made the South Amer
feel small?nothing makes him reel
icious of any possible ineptness unless it
he North American. Mr. Sherwood tells
imusing story of Yankee thrift?amusing
he Yankee?when an agent during the
was sent from our country to buy nie.
There were twenty-six firms all ready
Id on nitrate, and knowing that we might
lire 250,000 tons or so in our rush to
;e powder, they were also ready to form
jlet little ring and boost the price. But
visitor asked for only a modest ten thou1
tons?not worth boosting?and thv
aty-six firms sent in their quotations at
old price. Whereupon the "norteamerin"
ordered ten thousand from each of the
is and sailed away with his 260.000 tonwas
after Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood
thed the Argentine that I left them?left
n flat?and went off with Katherine S.
ier to enJoy: "Five Months in the Ar
tine?From a Woman's Point of View"
erman). Indeed I would leave the milk
i this moment if Katherlne S. Dreler
ild ask me really to go on a trip with her
she had an eye in Buenos Ayres tha*
etrated the marble walls, saw further
a the far vista of a stately street and
;ed beyond the counters of rich stuffs to
, in the city of flood Airs, smells that
ild reach the Heavens hut for the drench
jerfume, and tinsled fripperies covering
nesses that I hope do not exist in the
ntries I have visited.
-"hat she gives us of the condition of the
tr classes, and of the higher classes for
matter, was not good for insomnia, but
'as good for the sleeping soul. And It Is
most absorbing reading I have come
>88 In many a day.
can imagine the bewilderment of Good
t If by any chance this volume slips into
r bookless world. They will bo like the
>r who. during criticism at rehearsal, was
, by the director that his clothes were
ng. hair ridiculous, diction faulty, gests
awkward and Interpretation outrageous
i assailed wreicn smiiea nopciuuy mm
ed, "Otherwise than those things I'm all
it. ain't I?" Yet T am convinced If
id Airs turned pitifully to Katherine S
ier and asked, "Otherwise than what
'vp written about me, I'm all right, ain't
she would shout hack: "Tfo, you're not!"
go on some more.
u Can't Go Down the Grand Canyon
And Get Back in Time for Dinner
Invite Mrs. or Miss Dreler to go with m<
a trip to our National Parks In companv
h Henry Ottrldge ltelk. I'm not much
d at discovering horrible social conditions
I know a mountain peak when I see one
I no one can fool me on the Grand Canyor.
that I would not appear entirely ignorant
n accord with my argument that the
vel books we most enjoy are of those
da we have already visited. I turned imtliatoly
to the chapter on the Grand Cani
when I opened Lieut -Col. Relk's hook
Tour of America's National Parks" (Dut).
The Canyon, I am ashamed to say, is
only one of the National Parks T know
I I am sure whatever Lleut.-Col. Reik
i to sav of the other Government reserve*
st be true, because he says bo little of the
jyon. This Is one of the restinsr places
ere the pencil of the descriptive writer re
Ins surprised and undisturbed In his vest
ket. I was most sympathetic with this ,
Lhor, for he too felt, "It is not the ImmenV
of It alone . . . there Js a stillness
i can actually feel; T had almost said you
I actually hear." And If this scholarly
ter-had Just come from three months with
movln* picture people he would have
sit with equal* satisfaction upon the imvablllty
of this one miracle which Is not
ditlon.
lie only evasion of the truth Is his jrlib
hlon of tolling the reader he can *0 down
? the Canyon before breakfast and be back
time for dinner. While ho reservedly
s "In time" he sufrsrests that one wants
ner, could sit down and enjoy dinner after
n* astride a mule's neck all the way down
rell one mile deep, returning on the mule's
durlnc the agonlzinsr cllmh out. For me
misery did not lessen until many mealies
had passed. Indeed I felt mvself to
permanently Injured and bore In mind
e T had sneered at Doeothv Donnelly o
i Channel boat as site waa heard raspinp
1 ?T?Wn rn< ^ I 'ill ri'?* wr- rw?1111^ I -
ivulslon."
t took thirty-nine irln??es of milk to visit
lerloa'e National Parka and I was sorry
rr were not more?more parka. For aa t
ed the book I fall vary positively, a trip
mlny on." A trip anions those majestic
ees, which I as much own a* any one
?, T must so look after my property.
ie, not the land of other peoples. For T
re a hesitancy Just now 1n foln* aironr*
intrles that take our money and withhold
ir esteem Alack. T do not Mama them
that Perhaps I would find n more quiet
science amour America's wonders. T
rht feel in those remote distances that 1
a no lonyer under an arralirnment of
idln* people, the more terrible In that the
*dln* Is never voiced. And should I still
r amons those Resting Places of th?
'Stor, little a cousin* voices that my duty
tot done. I should be sure the voice? were
1 snd I should po hick to whatever Job to
p Is mine. For w< cannot always dwell
onr the stars?nor trassl always ?a the
kr way! (