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Show i HH The New 1909 "MO" Four Cylinder Locomobile Runabout Owned by E. G. Woolley. The Latest Sensation in Motoring Circles. (j H THE CALL OF THE CITY. Though Charles Mulford Robinson Is a recognized recog-nized authority on the serious matter of clvic improvement, this is far from being a book of dry figures or too obtrusive facts; it is the easy chat of a happy city dweller a keen-eyed, warmhearted warm-hearted observer, telling his friends of the sights and sounds that he loves. By means of twelve graceful essays, written with sympathetic grace and infectious enthusiasm, enthusi-asm, Mr. Robinson makes the reader gad to be a townsman, or makes him wish that he were. For he tells of the city's innate charm, the joys of its ringing thoroughfares, its rare beauty, rich human hu-man interest, fellowship, comfort, historic associations, asso-ciations, the grand opportunities for work, moral development and entertainment that it affords, and the idyllic little chapter, "When Phyllis Is In Town," alone proves the author's sense of the poetry of the paved streets. After all that has been written about "the call of the open," "back to nature" and "the return to the soil," It was time that someone should thus take up the cudgels for the disparaged town, reminding re-minding the world that there is worth and rare beauty in the walled places where many folks do dwell, as well as in the trackless wilds. The book is printed on heavy Exeter white-wove white-wove paper and bound with exceptional taste, so as to make it a fit volume lor presentation to any lpver of good essays. The frontispiece is a photogravure pho-togravure reproduction of Coin Campbell Coop' er's painting, "Broad Street, New York," and an effective, poetic panel picture of a moonlight city. These essays on the delights of urban life are published by Paul Elder and Company of San Francisco and New York. |
