. The Argonaut . t again, withJosefa hangin on one o his arms, a-laughin an at th same time, an Little Kid perched in thother, one fist a-mixin with his whiskers, an tha-pullin of his nose. Bourf San Francisco, December, 1905. 484 THE ARGONAUT December 18, 1905. THE STORY OF THE MISSIONS. George Wharton Jamess New Volume is Encyclopaedic—He Says There is No Mission Style of Furniture—Ardent Plea for Preservation, not Restoration. Voluminous and lavishly illustrated, George Whar-ton Jamess In and Out of the Old Missions of Cali-fornia has been added to the histories of early Cali-for
. The Argonaut . t again, withJosefa hangin on one o his arms, a-laughin an at th same time, an Little Kid perched in thother, one fist a-mixin with his whiskers, an tha-pullin of his nose. Bourf San Francisco, December, 1905. 484 THE ARGONAUT December 18, 1905. THE STORY OF THE MISSIONS. George Wharton Jamess New Volume is Encyclopaedic—He Says There is No Mission Style of Furniture—Ardent Plea for Preservation, not Restoration. Voluminous and lavishly illustrated, George Whar-ton Jamess In and Out of the Old Missions of Cali-fornia has been added to the histories of early Cali-fornia. Mr. James has long been known as an ama-teur of the Spanish missions, and as an authority onthe details of the daily life and worship of Franciscanpriest and Indian neophyte. In his present book—tobe followed by one on the missions in New Mexico,Arizona. Texas, and Lower California—he first re-lates the hist-ry of the Spanish conquest, the exten-sion of the chain of missions, their general story, and. San Carlos Mission. then treats each mission by itself—with the particu-larity of a guide-book. The result of Mr. Jamess affectionate labor is amost interesting book, interesting in many tantalizingways. But the reader will quickly find that there aresome parts of it that might well have been omitted, least, treated differently. The author disclaims thediscovery of new material, says he is not a Spanishscholar, has consulted no original Spanish records, andconfesses that most of the historic part of these pagesis taken almost bodily from Bancroft. The inevitable mixture of perfunctory transcriptionand ardent original work is disappointing to those whostill feel that no work could be too highly finished insetting forth the story of the Spanish Franciscans un-der the sapphire skies of California. Mr. Jamess nar-rative, now and again, gives one a glimpse of aneophyte trudging through the sand to early mass inthe Mission Dolores, or a smell of the grapes in thehil
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