The Personality of American Cities. By Edward Hunger- ford. (Grant
Richards. 7s. 6d. net.)—It is easier to admit than to define the personality of a city. We all know that the spiritual air which greets us in London and Paris, New York and Buenos Aires, is even more distinctive than the physical atmosphere. But Mr. Hungerford has undertaken a difficult task in essaying to describe the " flavour and personality" of some thirty cities of the United States and Canada. A native naturally looks through eyes very differently focussed from those of a foreigner. To both Syracuse must be defined by the fact that she lets express trains run down her main street ; but the traveller who remembers Buffalo as containing one of the moat beautiful streets in the world is naturally disappointed to find that an American thinks of that city as a glorified railway yard.
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