Hide Article Text (OCR)
Licms?” We recognize as icgirifjuite humor the grave statement that Clio putty *looked everywhere \vc misled iilvuff, but never eaw •'ralti or cr.ml uf Lolm mfe,” although to same this aennmcc inigiiC s^eni acme want irreverent Here aiyti there wo dud passages winch might have been left out nit Jurat injury to clie work- Tlie author. However, evidently Has no respect for tradition—not even for Bible tradition. Alter swallowing aLl the free-think-lug jimi ration mis tic euiLiaLLons; of ilic day. we shall iiiir. strain over a lew paragraphs, which. Sf not marked by austere piety, need wot, iuscessunly, be regarded as saeiiicge. If the Holy Land did inn in-store tlie author with enthusiastic emotions, wn nave woaouht it was because the Holy i^iud been persistently lied about by nearly all other authors.But aside from religious traditions anil the light treatment of them, this is a book which must be read to be thoroughly enjoyed. Unlike the major-liy of American hmnomts, Murk Twain neverIndulges hi had spelling and worse grammar, which vulgarities most frequency comprise the joke. Ho uses notulnp'but good Anglo-Baxon, and when the readers laugh, as they will many times over ami over, merriment arises solely from the subject written of, not from the manner in which it u written, and is therefore an tne more enjoyable. ‘‘TheIaooeepts Abroad” is undoubtedly an oa^is in the desert of worxs on foreign travel with which we ! are deluged at the present day. We have read u throughout with great pleasure, and If Mark Twain will do no worse in future chores at bookman ng will always heartily welcome him to our de^k.
Newspaper Details
New York Herald
New York, New York, US
Tue, Aug 31, 1869
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Mark T.
USA 29 Jul 2017
Other Publications Near New York, New York
New York Stars and Stripes
New York Weekly Tribune
Barnard Bulletin
New York Times
New York Evening Times
