This collection of journalistic pieces was written for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s and focus on Paris. Hemingway's early work here is part travel writer and part gossip columnist. The style would seem out of place today and, from personal experience, editors are only to ready to "correct" such work written in the "your correspondent" third person. It is a shame, in that Hemingway's style is very readable and rather witty. I doubt articles written about a foreign city would be of interest today, but at the time, many North Americans were keen on the exchange rate with France and Paris, of course, was a major destination. Moreover, I doubt that the "Orientalist" approach to reporting on foreign countries would be so readily apply to today's France, although destinations that still remain "foreign" to most Westerners may receive this treatment as a matter of course. This is a short but fruitful read and I was particularly impressed by the format and the cover, which makes for a robust yet accessible paperback style. I rarely comment on this aspect of a book but the cover style is remarkable. ( )

Somewhere I read of Hemingway describing his walks in Paris, visiting cafés, writing there. I don't know in which story, though I remember the place where I lived and the bench where I read it. The atmosphere sticked to me of the luxury of sitting in a beautiful place with a drink alone with the mind wandering at will, tasting the freedom to enjoy its power. All worry about poverty seems so puny in the middle of this enormous richness of the now, on the edge of history, with a world that has never been more modern in all its directions.

"On Paris" is an anthology selection of 29 articles from the years 1922 to 1923 out of the total of 172 articles written by Ernest Hemingway for the Toronto Star between 1920 to 1924. The complete collection of 172 articles was printed as the book "Dateline: Toronto" (1985) by Scribners and is currently out of print (2011 as I write this) but can be found at reasonable prices as a used book at the usual internet sources or as an eBook.
These 29 articles deal with subjects specifically related to Paris and France though, and, as such, this is an excellent companion book for fans of Hemingway's late period "A Moveable Feast" (1964 - issued posthumously) Paris memoir or the early short story collections such as "in our time" (the 1924 vignettes only version) or "In Our Time" (the 1925 vignettes and short stories version) as it gives you a further view of what he was writing about Paris at the same time as he was actually living there and what non-fiction news reporting he was doing while he was learning his craft as a fiction writer. Many of the articles are written with a humorous view and incorporate dialogue as well, so that they are not all standard reporting and are somewhat closer to his vignette-type of scene settings and descriptions. By vignettes I mean the short mostly one-paragraph interludes between the standard short stories in the later "In Our Time" edition.
There are no additional materials or commentaries provided to add any further context to the articles in "On Paris". The "On Paris" book is then only 68 pages of newspaper article texts, so it is not great value for money, especially at its list price of $15.95 U.S.. If you are able to get the complete "Dateline: Toronto" for a reasonable used price, then you would have the entire "On Paris" collection as well.
I'd rate this a 5 for its Hemingway Paris/Moveable Feast connection and interest value, but mark it down to a 4 due to the slim content and value-for-money.
I've listed the "On Paris" Table of Contents at my Comments section under Book Details (http://www.librarything.com/work/5323385/details/80996673) if you are interested to see the specific article titles and dates. ( )