“It is a sorry, dry-as-dust, uninteresting, and unprofitable compilation.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 520. O. 26, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Seitz, Don Carlos. Discoveries in every-day Europe. **$1.25. Harper.
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Little details that eminate from the store of a traveler’s latent impressions, the sort that fill the chinks of the memory but that are seldom offered to the stay-at-home tourist. In his shrewdly observant fashion, entertainingly humorous, the author tells the reader things worth remembering, and things that can be remembered for their very epigrammatic clearness. For instance, he says, “Ice is regarded with superstitious reverence in Italy, France and England. Common waiters are not allowed to touch the precious product. Instead, the head waiter hands it out in infinitesimal fragments with a pair of sugar-tongs.” The marginal illustrations are suggestive of the book’s humor.
“The ordinary reader will find in it a great deal more about Europe that would interest him than he gets in the usual ponderous book of travel.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 160w. |
“Alert, humorous, and irrepressible.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |