March, 1912 
Rome. A Practical Guide to Rome and Its 
Environs. By Eustace Reynolds-Ball, 
B.A., F.R.S. London: Adams & Charles 
Black. New York: Macmillan’ & Co., 
16mo. Price, $1.10 net. 
There is perhaps no city in Europe which 
exercises so potent a charm on all classes 
of visitors as does Rome. It may be partly 
due to its historic traditions, memories and 
associations, in which no city in the world 
is so rich; or we may attribute this glamor 
to its wealth of art treasures, its noble 
churches, its streets of Renaissance palaces, 
and its supreme archeological and historical 
interest. Books about Rome are legion, and 
the author who is desirous of adding an- 
other to this literature should be very cer- 
tain that he is able to produce a valuable 
handbook. Mr. Reynolds-Ball has suc- 
ceeded in making a guide which is light in 
weight, small in size, and which is most 
comprehensive. The text is excellently writ- 
ten, and the authorities consulted most im- 
posing. The climate and medical hints, if 
attended to, will greatly minimize the dan- 
gers of illness in Rome, stories of which are 
very much exaggerated. The illustrations, 
many of which are in color, are extremely 
beautiful. There is an excellent folding 
map of Rome on a good scale. 
ESSENTIALS OF Poetry. By William A. 
Neilson. Boston and New York: Hough- 
ton - Mifflin Company, 1912. Cloth; 
16mo. ; 282 pp. Price, $1.25. 
In his preface to this volume the author 
states that his point of view as presented 
herein was reached in the course of dis- 
cussions with a class of students in English 
literature at Harvard University. The scope 
of the book is somewhat indicated by the 
titles of its various chapters: “The Balance 
of Qualities,” “Imagination and Poetry,” 
“Imagination and Romanticism,” “Reason 
and Classicism,’ “The Sense of Fact and 
Realism,” “Intensity in Poetry,’ “Senti- 
mentalism in Poetry,” “Humor in Poetry.” 
The author has made no attempt at a 
final definition of poetry. The formula he 
presents is only one of many ways that 
might be suggested of approaching the prob- 
lems, practical and theoretical, which offer 
themselves for solution to the serious stud- 
ent of the subject. 
Professor Neilson’s book is quite as much 
a volume for the lay reader as for the ad- 
vanced student, and is heartily recommended 
to everyone to whom the subject appeals in 
the least. 
A LittLe Pirerimace IN Itaty. By Olave 
M. Potter. Boston and New York: 
Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1911. Cloth; 
8vo.; illustrated; 360 pp. Price, $4.00 
net. 
This is a book of simple delight, a chron- 
icle of little pleasures. The author takes 
one away from the great cities to the Italian 
hills and hill-towns—tiittle cities of great 
memories standing knee-deep in flowers— 
Arezzo, Cortona, Perugia, Sienna, Urbino, 
and the rest of them. It is a delightful rec- 
ord in pleasant memory of a little pilgrim- 
age that brought the writer to many shrines, 
and haunts of peace and beauty. Of un- 
spoiled Umbria Miss Potter truly remarks, 
“If you are travel-stained with life, if the 
sweat of a workaday world still clings about 
you, if you have lost your saints and al- 
most forgotten your gods, you will cure the 
sickness of your soulin Umbria.”’ The illus- 
trations are by Yoshio Markino, a Japanese 
artist of marked merit, working in the west- 
ern way but awake to the more subtle im- 
pressions that often escape artists who are 
bent on making a pretty picture only. 
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