GOLDEN TAPESTRY OF CALIFORNIA

by Sydney A. Clark '12. Robert M. McBride & Cos. N. Y. 1937. $3.00.

To the number of readers who enjoy travel literature Sydney Clark's GoldenTapestry of California will provide entertainment of a genial sort. The author is enthusiastic about his subject without losing his sense of humour and becoming a "booster" for California. Here a wellseasoned traveler confesses to a prickly sensation brought on by the sight of the Yosemite Valley, "the cypresses of Carmel, the prune orchards of Santa Clara seen in March, the lupine and the poppy fields of Kern County, the first glimpse of Tahoe approached from the Nevada side, the old books of San Marino, the well-trumpeted miracle of the Golden Gate Bridge andemphatically—the redwood empire's endless majestic groves of Sequoia setnpervirens." Descriptions of the natural beauties of the state are ingeniously woven in with its colorful historical background. The dramatic story of the Franciscan padres, the romance of Rezanov and the pretty Concepcion Arguello, old Barbary coast, the gun flashing and gold grabbing days of the mining country, the tinsel of Hollywood and the fish stories of the Eel river country all find their places in this well-named Golden Tapestry of California.