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But as Americans succeeded the British and the Germans as the world's most tireless travelers, the proliferation of guidebooks has more than matched the tourist pace. U.S. bookstores now stock at least 50 guides to European countries, regions and cities which, despite the growing lure of Asia and...
It was a glorious part of the age of steam and the steamer trunk, and it was a remarkable performance. But not even old Karl Baedeker could have done it in today's Europe, although his descendants continue the guides competently enough. The Continent is simply changing too fast...
Clarion Call. For the first time since his death, Church's place in U.S. painting is being reassessed with a large exhibition at the Albany Institute of History and Art.* Historically, Church ranks as virtually the last of the Hudson River School. A pupil of Thomas Cole, he took...
The Avant-Garde. Supermarket availability at home has helped establish another trend: Frenchmen now drink more champagne than ever, last year bought 58.2 million bottles, or three-quarters of the output. The bigger champagne producers, however, are still leary about putting all their bottles in one basket, and they continue...
Moorehead leaves the contemporary reader aghast at the obtuseness of the British, who followed Cook's discovery with the decision to make a penal settlement of New Holland. Reason has its crimes: since the American dumping ground for Puritan and Catholic dissidents had been lost by the Revolution, it...