Word: travelogy
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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PORTS AND HAPPY PLACES-Cornelia Stratton Parker-Boni & Liveright ($3.00). In this whimsical, informal travelog of Europe, Mrs. Parker's happy touch flicks the dust off antiquity with ruthless ease. She has not even a bowing acquaintance with any standardized, ladylike itinerary. She and her two young sons and one small daughter "strolled" haphazardly through Europe, abiding in the most out-of-the-way, unusual places, and describing it all in the most out-of-the-way, unusual manner. They lived in a delicious, hand-painted medieval monastery, in a starched Swiss boarding house, in a "rummy little hotel...