GUIDE TO AMERICA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22184, 10 August 1935, Page 9 (Supplement)

GUIDE TO AMERICA

HALF A DOZEN ESSAYS A book designed to give prospective visitors to the United States practicable information in a palatable form is " America," by Mr. 11. E. Mitchell. 'J'he author was sent to America by the Commonwealth Fund to study at an American University, to live among the American people, and to travel over any part of the country he pleased with the object of fostering friendly relations between the two great Eng-lish-speaking nations. The present collection of six essays is tbe result oi M a stay of three years. The author disarms criticism by stating in his opening sentence that the book is superficial. In the essays on " New York " and " The American Language," the reader is given such miscellaneous information as how much to tip a New York taxi driver, how to toll a Philadelphian from a Bostonian and a Bostonian from a Southerner, what the American equivalents are lor dustbin, lorry, biscuit, stud and goods-train. The other essays are entitled " Driving and Travel," " New England and the East," " The American People/' and " Remoter Parts." The armchair traveller also will find something to interest him in the book. "America: A Practical Handbook." by Ronald Elwyn Mitchell. (Hamiah Hamilton)