AN ARTIST IN GREECE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

AN ARTIST IN GREECE

“In Greece with Feu and Palette,” by Zabelle C. Boyajian (London: Dent). .

Despite its unattractive title this book contains a most readable account of travel in a country whoso every inch is lively with historical associations. The author is an artist who writes as well as she paints, and paints more titan adequately, as tlie 16 reproductions in colour of her paintings show.

She tells an entertaining story of her roving through Greece on a sketching tour, and her knowledge of the history ami mythology of that country, combined with her ability to describe the land and its colour, results in a very satisfying book. The reading of it is certain to kindle in most people a desire to tread the same ground, a longing to see the Parthenon outlined against the blue night: sky, to see “the blue mountains of Thessaly." “the long ridge of the Klrphis, wine-red in the sunset glow," “the unwrinkled blue of the lonian,” “the Gulf of Korinth, encircled by rose-pink crinkled hills.” To see, also, as the admirable and Indefatigable Miss Boyajlan saw it, the dawn from Mount Parnassus, though It demand the energy of a Tara run tramper, 'Phis Is an exceptional travel book, and the illustrations give, far better than ever photographs could, some idea of the colour ami beauty of Greece.