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1Author:  Wharton review: AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  A Motor Flight through France.  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: It is not to be expected that Mrs. Wharton would write the ordinary book of travel—nor has she done so in the present volume. «The motor-car has restored the romance of travel,» she declares: and to prove her contention she whirls her reader through the towns and picturesque country scenes of France on a motor-car that certainly leaves nothing to be desired by the traveler in the way of comfort and convenience. Mrs. Wharton dwells with delight on the freedom from the «ugliness and desolation created by the railway,» as enjoyed by the motorist, and describes in her usual charming style the various objects of beauty and interest that flash by her car without being marred by intervening railroad yards, smoke, and general dulness. With no country is Mrs. Wharton more thoroughly familiar than with France, and her brilliant sketches of towns, castles, churches, men, and women, seen in passing, furnish excellent reading and lend to this book a piquancy not usually possest by others of its kind. For any one contemplating a motor trip through France it should serve, moreover, as an excellent guide.
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