Snow or Pants,"—By 4 Burrell. "New. York Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith.
"The Lantern Show of Paris" is a book of charmingly etched scenes; of moods evoked in ever graceful, touchingly sentimental prose. One reads them to find, put almost al ways into the right words, those things which are most " charming, most fragrant, in the life about us wherever we may be. But not all of them, not nearly all of them, seize the essence of Paris" in quite the fashion suggested by Andre Maurois in his preface. This is not objection, but an attempt at clarification. sketches not quite so charming the prose—are truly enough sentially of Paris." Many will bring memories to any one ied, however briefly, in the city which Mr. Burrell loves so wel, Of the "now vanishing goatherd he writes; of the flower seller; of people and places indigent ous to the capital of France. His pastels are always delicately tinted, always graceful.
'A book, this, to read in the sun shine with a ship rail slowly rising and falling before you—to read and lay aside and read again. The ship, of course, should be taking you to=
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