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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1934. 6 THE WORLD OF FICTION, FACT AND FANCY News and Notes of Interest Book Reviews By ELIZABETH N. CASE 'Something New In African Tales Striking Novel From England Fun For Epicures Of Crime Stories I HEARKEN TO THE EVIDENCE By H. Russell Wakefield; Double-day, Doran Garden City, New York; 12. This powerful tal; of crime and punishment is an excellent example On Scottish Life In 19th Century THE SCOTLAND OP OUR FATHERS: A Study of Scottish Life in the Nineteenth Century By Elizabeth S.

Haldane; With 24 Illustrations and Maps; D. Appleton-Century New York. For all that Miss Haldane's delightful chronicle is concerned with ni'teenth-century Scotland, the backwardness of this noble country m.Mor of household sanitation, of the new trend in the technique! book called "Black God." and it is of the mystery-detective story something quite new. i novels in which the psychological; it is the African scene, the element is stressed, and the story witches, the adventure and the too-develops rather as a study in the green jungle with a saving satire of subtleties of motive and temptation 1 irony poured over all. Miss Man-; than as a puzzle in detection.

Con-, ners-Sutton takes nothing at fare spieuous successes in this field have value. She prods her victims with been "Malice Aforethought, and delicate malice and makes them. "Before the Fact," by the brilliant dance. Sometimes the prodding is writer whose pseudonym is Francis I so subtle that the victims seem to: lies; Mr. C.

S. Forester's "Payment dance unbidden. Deferred." Mr. Hugh Brooke's "The "Black God" is a tale strung on a Web," recently reviewed in this de- i curious string. The string is 1 a VI f-i nS I v.p- if a i 'i I ill it I the care of the sick in hospitals, in well constructed roads, and in other matters of day-to-day usage as compared with England and the United States make it seem like a picture of eighteenth-century manners and customs, rather than those of the century in which so many of those yet living were born and lived their early years.

The titles of Miss Haldane 12 chapters, following her Introduction, may serve to convey some general idea of the inclusive scope of her book, and accordingly they follow here How the People Lived; The Rise of the Middle Classes; How the Social Services Developed: The Development of Agriculture; The Church of the People: The Education of the People; The Industries of the People; Impressions of Scottish Life; How the People Moved About; Workers in the Towns; How the Rural Workers Lived; The Highlands ana tne Hign- landers. i The interest of Miss Haldane's account of nineteenth-century Scot- i land can scarcely be exaggerated; it seems Impossible that a better book i of it special type could be written. In her list of some of the books con- suited while preparing her volume, appears inevitably, one would say Trait "Annals of the Parish." mmt ixo Elizabeth Hamilton's "The Cottagers of Glenburnie," that de- liirhffii! hook which deserves to be reprinted in the Oxford World: rs. Tihrsrv 1 However, for all he authorities she c.iorf rr BLACK GOD By D. Manners-Sut- ton; Longmans.

Green. (AP.i There is surcease for those who have found African tales too too adventurous, too witch-ridden. d. Manners-Suiton has written a a black who spent his productive life sitting on the bank of a river. He had been bidden to find this particular river by a witch doctor, and ordered to sit on the bank until he had his revenge.

For M'Kato had had a sister who had left him for Humphrey Brown the planter. It was Humphrey M'Kato waited for on the river bank. M'Kato had learned to throw his spear with his foot. He had to, be- cause Brown had had both the black's hands cut off when he pro- tested against his sister's lot. The; man with no hands sat and waited through the years.

He changed from; a young shepherd to a man of mid- die age who looked old. The fordi near which he sat became the cen-; ter of a town and the town the center of a life It is this life 'that Miss Manners-1 Sutton explores so productively. She is an adept at such exploration, and she has the detachment which is perhaps the chief qualification nec essary. she writes about the witch doctor, the missionaries, the trad- ers. Madame Boul-Boul.

the man i of the human boay, the cook on the: little steamer which cahed fortnightly everything comes to life under her hands. She even has a nice twist for the end. Fnr Kf'Rafn pets his rpvepp but not Quite in the wav he had ex-1 pected. I Tiria F'ircf nvpl By Young Author: NOW IN NOVEMBER By Josephine Johnson; Simon and Schuster. AP.) S.

Van Dine, who likes to spring surprises on the readers of his Justin Sturm. West port. sculptor, working 0.1 a Irad ft Wtt- ljam also a resident of that tow n. Mr. McFee's new book.

"More Harbours of Memory," will be published September 36 by Doubled', Dor an Company. famous mystery stories, sprang another surprise lately he he had OPen secretlv married for some time. The couple are shown in Hollywood where Mr. Dine is writing scenarios. Books In Brief invaluable in stimulating a child faculty of observation.

"Word Pic- tures," is. altogether, a remarkable i mm lv commended to the attention of Pen. teachers, social workers. those concerned in any way with Knocker-Worker, and Mounted Pitcher on the Market-Places and Our Fathers" is. In essence, the work thor ha been hailed as the peer ot i t(J Bre Bnd tramlr-S 01 Showing of Miss Haldane, who, with charm Mr.

and declared to be children. and dignity tells us of a past master of humor. Unquestionably, chEPJACK' the True H'S-in the evolving social history of her Hours." which reveals the of youngVlan Adventures beloved native land. ba-skstage activities of a big London Fortnne-Tpiipr Grafter Fair-Grounds of a Modern but ten. and extremely clever.

It is, how-Still Romantic England By Philip ever, in the character of the famous In her Prefatory Note Miss Hal-. dane writes "It may be said that this book falls between two stools: I it may be considered insufficiently informative on the one hand, or. especially when it dips into theology or Statistics, too so.eron on me other. But further information can be got elsewhere and dull pans may De sKippea. inen again a ueaia wi dates remembered by many as well as by the author, and her remem- i branees are sure to be capped by others claiming to be more accurate.

I This last Is undoubtedly true, for much is written as personal experi- ences or else learned through the i Fathers' of the writer, and all such i remembrances are fallible," v. J'S1 mnW W'llmot: Claude Kendall. New Now In November seems such a i ork; $2. strange phenomenon for tne present -The Royal MJmkin." by Alice that perhaps its background should Gall and Fleming Crew: Oxford come first in this place. i t'niversity Press.

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In "Hearken to the Evidence." Mr. Wakefield, who came into prominence as an author some years ago with a volume of remarkable "creep" stones, entitled "They Return at Evening," offers an absorbing story showing how the "evidence" which seemed to implicate the beautiful and youthful Lady Tamhorn, and Noel Carroll, a young novelist who was madly in love with her, in the murder of Lady Tarnhorn's elderly invalid husband. Sir Arthur Tarn- horn, piled up and led to the trial of Lady Tamhorn Carrol! having in the mean time committed suicide. eavmg a sensational (and entirely jfaUe) confession of his own guilt for the murder of her husband, and to her ultimate conviction for the crime. w.w.u.

-m. an exceedingly adroit use of his state of affairs, and lets us know the Identity of the criminals as to which matters there has been, throughout the book, a clue, or at all events a suggestion, for the reader whose detective instinct is keen enough to grasp it. The book, i lessly absorbing, but expertly writ- physician, Sir Edward Tamhorn "a coarser and more robust edition" his brother. Sir Arthur, that Mr. Wakefield achieves a genuine tri umph.

"Hearken to the Evidence" is a rich treat for the genuinely ap- preciauve epicure of the novel deal ing with the inner psychology of hiBh crime prize iNovel is Excellent Story 'BRASSBOUND," By Mary D. Blckel iCo-ard, McCann. AP. "Brabound." a novel which won one of the numerous "$10,000 prize contests, this one some two years ago. is becoming a literary curiosity.

This is because reading it is like reading a movie script which has bfen filled out slightly and left to stand alone in a world used to some- i thing a little different. As a matter of fact, the book did have its in- ception at a movie party in New York, and Mrs. Bickel is a sister-in-law of Fredric March's. The book is built this way. We are given a short bit of the testimony in the trial of Linda Stuart for the murder of Clay Carroll.

Then Mrs. Bickel insert a flashback, and in the flashback she tells the truth of what is being implied in the courtroom. As in life, the testimony and the truth do not quite coincide; Linda's statements, as they are dragged from her by the prosecuting attorney, are truthful and at the same time false because she cannot tell Generally speaking. "Brassbound" is a study in the relationships set going by a young man who, in youth, caught his mother in what seemed to him a compromising situation. Ever afterward he refused to credit her innocence and became a fadis-tic, brooding, plotting danger to the normal relationships of life.

He loved Linda, but he could not marry her. He would not give her up, and through the years of their engagement he gradually drained her of resistance, of Independence, almost of will. Part of Lindas burden was her situation at home, her two maiden aunts whose genteel poverty Clay relieved. Part was the town in which she lived, and the way in which she lived. She was desperate.

She visited Clay one night and threatened him, and then Clay was found dead. It is a neat if not an original plot, weakened to a considerable extent by the solution Mrs. Bickel gives it Instead of being a fine novel, "Brass-bound" is an excellent story. i I some of the magazines, but this is; iiamson; Harcourt, Brace fe Com- her first novel. This summer shelPan-v- Nfw Yorit; 2-50- attended the Bread Loaf.

writ-1 Mxwfli Boden- THE WEB By Hugh Brooke; Dou-bleday, Doran Garden City, New York; $2. This striking novel was first published in England under the title "Miss Mitchell," this being the name of the central figure ln the book, a formidable and dangerous woman, the victim of the warped development of certain inherent tendencies and characteristics, who appears to the casual observer as a competent, efficient, and exceedingly friendly spinster, handicapped in the game of life by the plainness of her face. The first Impression of the present reviewer was that Hugh Brooke was the pseudonym of a woman novelist, but the photograph of Mr. Brooke, reproduced on the inner back flap of the dust jacket of the volume, proves that impression to be completely mistaken. There can be, however, no question of Mr.

Brooke's almost uncanny knowledge of feminine psychology, or of his power to penetrate into dark, obscure corners of the minds of both men and women. "The Web" ls not Mr. Brooke's first novel, but it is the first book to establish his fame in England, where he is considered a distinct literary "find;" a conviction which ls likely to be shared by all intelligent readers of "The Web." The tale, which is characterized by the publishers as "macabre," certainly merits that adjective, and it is also exceedingly powerful psychologic melodrama. A book belonging in the same category with Mr. James.

Hilton's remarkable study in the psychology of morbid jealousy, "Rage in Heaven." and bearing some artistic affinity with the work of Mr. Geoffrey Dennis. Miss Mitchell, whose influence affects, in greater or less degree, every one who cornea within her circle, is a woman who ln her youth suffered an accident which disfigured her face; she has a very beautiful sister, and her realization that she herself was barred for life from admiration, and her Jealousy of her sister's beauty, turned her gradually, and by force of accumulating circumstance, into the monster of refined cruelty which she became. A woman of naturally strong passions. Miss Mitchell became obsessed by a devotion to an attractive young man whose nursery governess she had been and in whose family she became a permanent and highly important fixture.

The story of Miss Mitchell's life draws on to its logical, inevitable conclusion, with her complete madness, and her merciful, though terrible death. At times a bit clumsy and heavy-handed in style this in the intervals where Mr. Brooke displays his familiarity with the terms of modem Web" in its entirety is not only absorbing, but genuinely thrilling, and there are countless felicities of phrase in Mr. Brooke's telling of his story, and many swift descriptive passages which etch the scenes on the reader's memory. Beside the full-length, richly elaborated portrait of Miss Mitchell, we have the strange figure of the embittered explorer, Vergil Connibeare, of his son Anthony, beloved by Miss Mitchell, of his daughter, and of Katherine Hen-drikson, whose fortunes are so curiously interwoven with those of the Connibeares.

father and son. Mulland Manor, the principal scene of Mr. Brooke's powerful story, lies in the English fen country, a region which has served as background, for many another dramatic story two notable examples, old and new, being Wilkie Colllns's "Armadale." and Miss Dorothy Say-ers's current best-seller. "The Nine Tailors." This background, beautifully indicated by Mr. Brooke, gives atmosphere and adds to the effect of his story.

It is not to be wondered at that "The Web" caused a sensation in England, a sensation which, it seems certain, will be repeated in our own country. Selections From Cardinal's Poems READINGS FROM CARDINAL O'CONNELL Edited With an Introduction by The Rev. Francis Blunt. LL. D.

Appleton-Century New York and London; $2. A book of excerpts writes Father Blunt, in his sympathetic Introduction to the present volume "is always bound to be relative in value, no matter how dispassionately the compiler chooses. Some like one bit, some another. And this relativity is bound to exist when there is a wealth of material to select from." "Readings from Cardinal O'Con-nell" is maae up of more than 80 selections from the writings of Cardinal O'Connell. the distinguished Catholic Archbishop of Boston whose published works are, as Father Blunt notes "encyclopedic in content and in appeal." A fee of the subjects considered by Cardinal O'Connell in this book are The Need of pod; The Church and Civilization; The Church in the United States; True Patriotism; Religion in Educatiot Educational Ideals; Faith and Fortitude; Abraham Lincoln; Peace to Men of Good Will.

While essentially and inevitably a Catholic book, pervaded throughout by the ipirit of the Catholic Church, this admirably selected anthology from the works of a noted Catholic teacher will be found full of appeal by innumerable non-Catholic readers. A brief biographical sketch of Cardinal O'Connell, whose portrait forms the frontispiece to the volume, follows Father Blunt's Introduction. ers' conference, and has just tored home from that place. York; The book is a farm storv. full of aw b' the feel and stir of the soil Ian Hopbm Harcourt Brace Allingham; Frederick A.

Stokes New York; VILD STRAWBERRIES A Novel Th'rkell-' Harrison i nd Robert HaM New York; $2. Two entertaining books, both of vwucn msuc a jut in The background of Philip Ailing- which have made a hit in England ham's "Cheapjack" is indicated by is book -cheap-j the title-page of hi jack" presents a graphic account of an impoverished aristocrat who took lne ln eung witn carnival ana ireaK snows. and offering a book which is, ac- cording to the expert authority of Mr. William McFee "good writing. good reading, and good reporting, A Glossary of Grafter's Slang is a valuable feature in Mr.

AUing-ham's lively and informing record. Mrs. Thirkeii. author of the humorous novel "Wild Strawberries," is a granddaughter of the celebrated Victorian painter. Sir Ed ward Burne-Jones.

and. as daughter of Professor J. W. Mackail she is sister of the talented young novel ist. Mr.

Denis Mackail. Mrs. Thirkeii is also a cousin of Rudyard Kipling and the Hon. Stanley Baldwin, whose mothers were sisters of Lady Burne-Jones, For a time Mrs. Thlr- kell lived in Australia, but she is is rich, ripe and riotous with English humor, concerned with the adven- tures of a most amusing group of people.

bv Mr. Francis Bin-ell, writing in The New S'a'psman and the rouh- i Reviews BUSINESS HOURS Bv Hugh P. McGraw; York; $2. New This livelv novel by Mr. McGraw i u- t- stat-has been enthusiastically firm of electrical engineers, is ex- cellent fun, a genuinely amusing bock which gives the reader full val- ue for his money.

The entire staff of Messrs. Geary and sorth. take the stage and play their parts to penecnon uncer me a.reiuon Mr. McGraw. a writer who seems.

certain to become a popular favorite wiin American, as ne iiimu) is wi.a English readers. THE LAUGHING JOUR NEY By JOURNEY Bv The John Day Thomas Lennon; New York; $2. This book, the first novel of a Califernian writer already well known for his short stones. a ro- i m.nc. of nreSem-dav Ireland, and i nuuwii ijL ilia i.

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Mr. Eliot's Prefatory Note to this deeply impressive piece of work is so hreresting that it follows here in full "I cannot consider myself the author of the 'play', but only of the words which are printed here. The scenario, incorporating some historical scenes suggested by the Rev. R. Webb-Odell, is by Mr.

E. Martin Browne, under whose direction I which is wholly lacking in compared to the work of the lament-is touched upon in Miss Haldane's ed Donn Byrne, and there is un-chapter on How the People Lived, I questionably a surface suggestion of in which occur the following pas-) likeness between the two writers, sages "The 'midden' in old days' But Mr Bvrnei though he published was usually close to the house, just much inferior pot-boiling stuff, pos-as is seen in French farmhouses and an imaginative power, and a cottages to this day Indeed the feeIin for sheer beauty ln the art likeness between the two countries of painUng in wordSi which whony in respect of outward form to still, 1U ta th conventional art5fi. remarkable, as every Scottish trav-l eler in rural France knows, and sanitary arrangements are equally peculiar. The intelligence of the inhabitants in both cases seems to be incommensurate with their outward conditions! Fixed baths were very rare in large houses and it is only of quite late years that they have; ing. unusual and indeed original now permanently settled in Eng-been introduced in small villages i idea in the teaching of language to land, and her Wild Strawberries" al T.

i. i no tender nlant. Tr. is vprv shorr but contains more nleasure than most of the three-volume sagas be- ing scattered abroad these days. And there are no words but Miss Johnson's to express its strange content of beauty.

Father, mother and three daughters are on the train. Grant comes later, as a hired man. The family is just one step ahead of a mortgage, tewed under the weight of i toil and worn-v swerving from a big, emn'i AenVnr tn frg Jehn vZt i' Xj years begin. Marget. who tehs the; story, is the middle daughter, tive, intelligent and willing to s' rug- g.

One of her sisters is the other is on the borderline of in-; sanitv. Her mother works the dayj through with an eye on her hus-j band, for years of work and worry i have not improved him. Still the; family hopes till the drought! comes. As hope fades, Marget experiences! Keeping Young in Business," by E. B.

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Some odd things happen to its whose calculating efficiency has carried her and a newly born baby through mountainous difficulties, becomes a squaw, Mrs gtone cloges the boolc witn the ransom of her Puritans, and also with a number of ironic fillips that add flavor to the whole, Wedding Journey In Far Turkestan TURKESTAN REUNION By Eleanor Holgate Lattimore; Decorations by Eleanor Frances Lattimore; The John Day New York; $2.75. In "Turkestan Reunion," Mrs. Lattimore, wife of Mr. Owen Latti- i world. Mrs.

Lattimore. iow a member of The Society of Women Geographers, is a native of Illinois, where her father is on the faculty of Northwestern University. She has been a teacher ln the United States and in China, and in 1926 married Mr. Owen Lattimore. The book ls delightfully written, and it is the literal truth that there isn't a dull Daee in the entire record.

"Turke- and-ready give-and-take of she needs to tell. i ni I members Chapman, for Instance, JOV (jrraCe OlOne finds himself learning from a Cath-J olic priest, and Mrs. Peekworth, love, the Insanity of her sister, the; faring Stone; Morrow. (A.P.) departure of the man she loves and the death of Kerrin. the mad Novels jarely offer as many char- and of her mother.

Still work drawn in the round and col- on, hopeless as ever, but necessary, ored wUh life as Grace zaring So. abstracted, the novel sounds Tnnrnev" Three! srrim and unrewarding. But. as the s'ne The Cold Journey, inree THE COLD JOURNEY By Grace or four full length portraits are considered sufficient as a rule. Mrs.

Stone has two dozen or more. And yet she nas not ioo many She is showing the transformation that chance and a handful of French and Indians long ago brought to the population of Red- field (apparently Deerfield). Massa- chusetts, and particularly the clash 0f puritan with French philosophy. That program requires a large nnmhr nf artnrs che begins with Redfield half and cottages: there were none last century, and the weekly bath of the English working-man was a cause of intense surprise. There has never been the same pride taken in the outward appearance of the cottage in Scotland as in England, either by the occupier or the laird.

In England the Squire and his wife really care to see pretty, prosperous-looking cottages on their estates, and make a point of visiting the people. Possibly the sort of visiting which took place in England might not be popular with Scottish cottagers. Here again there is a strong resemblance to French peasants who wi'l never brook interference with their houses or affairs: their homes are indeed their castles." The illustrations to "The Scotland of Our Fathers" are exceedingly curious and interesting, and include a silhouette of the notorious Dr. Robert Knox lecturer on anatomy in Edinburgh Just a century ago. who received the bodies provided by the terrible mass murderers.

Burke and Hare, whose crimes are familiar to mast readers even to this day. Dr. Knox is the central figure in a play. "The Anatomist," by Mr. James Bridie, recently produced in London, ln which the Burke and Hare murders form the ba.sis of the plot.

John Loudon Macadam shares with Lord Sandwich, who flourished more than a century before his day, the honor of giving a name to an invention which has become an in tegral part of our contemporary life. Laying a of cooked meat between two slice' of buttered bread. Lord Sandwich made posterity his eternal debtor; and J. L. Macadam, a Turnpike Trustee in Ayrshire, rev-olutioniznd the system of road construction.

Macadam also, writes Miss Haldane, did a good work in "advocating the employment of fully competent and well-paid laborers in road-making, for which hitherto unskilled labor had frequently been used and bad workmanship had ensued." "The Scotland of Our Fathers" Is preeminently a book to be read, and it is not a book for every reader; but. for those who enjoy and appreciate a graphic, sympathetic, 11-Juminatlng picture of the near-past of a remarkable country, a panorama of social history presented with a rare intelligence, and with vivacity and charm, Miss Haldane's study will be found to furnish ideal wrote the choruses and which are the fruit of present con-and submissive to whose expert! ditions in the world of commerce criticism I rewrote much of them. land industry. Chapter of "Keep-Of only one scene am I literally the ing Young in Business." bears the author: for this scene and of course I curious title Sour Livers, and be- modern dialogue, is in itself intense ly dramatic, and the whole effect of this pjgeant play is of something inherently nobie in conception, accomplished with a superb and sweeping artistry. How to Be Happy Though Working KEEPING YOUNG IN BUSINESS By E.

B. Weiss and Louis L. Snyder; Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co, New York and London; $1 75. This is one of the innumerable manuals on business efficiency and the technique of holding a Job, gins with the following paragraph- "Think of something grotesque and funny. Something that has made you laugh.

Then measure your reactions. Note how easily the face breaks out into a smije. Note the pleasurable muscular sensation, the general sense nf well-being." This quotation, which will remind many readers of the familiar style of the advertisements of certain popular cigarettes, is a fair sample of the style of the book, which, in essence, Ls a clarion call to keep, and above all to look, aggressively cheerful in the face of all circumstance. "If "Ileeping Young in Business" proves of actual practical help to any reader, its nublication will have been IMPERSONATION OF A LADY By Maude Parker; Houghton Mifflin Boston New York; The Riverside Press, Cambridge; $2. Cheerful, agreeably written novel, relating the experiences of a Broad-jway star, who.

after her marriage, i finds her environment. rhr.eri an aristocratic small-town commun- lty. Mniw ii i in iiiKim.ii. ink i buried under the crisp snow, a sting- more, the noted authority on far ing wind blowing and everyone re-1 Eastern affairs, offers one of the laxed, even the soldiers told off to! most entertaining personal records guard the town, because the weather 1 of extraordinary experiences to ap-seems to make an attack impossible, pear in many seasons. The present But the French and Indians have volume is made up.

writes Mrs. Lat-stiowshoes, there is an attack, the timore in her Introduction, of let-town is burned and all but those ters written on her wedding Jour-taking refuge in one strong house ney. when, with her husband, and are either killed or captured. their invaluable servant, Moses, she The cold journey back to Canada travelled for a year through "some begins Chapman, the preacher, of the least known portions of the story unrol's in Miss Johnson's rhj-thmic but never monotonous1 proce. the beauty of the experience! overlay else There has: been nothinz ouite so auietiv now-! rful since Willa Gather "Mv An-: tonia." "A Journey Into Rabelais's i France." by Albert Jay Nock; Wil-' liam Morrow Company, New York; $3 50.

"Salvation." bv Sholem Asch: G. P. Putnam's Sons; New York; $2.50. "TU. nf t3 1 i I for the sentiments expressed in the choruses I must assume the respon simnty.

i "I should like to make grateful' acknowledgment of the collaboration of Dr. Martin Shaw, who composed the music. To Mr. F. V.

Mor-ley I am indebted for one speech for which technical knowledge of bricklaying was required; to Major Bon-amy Dobree for correcting the diction of the Christopher Wren scene; to Mr. VV. F. Cachemaille-Day for information concerning the relations of architects, contractors and foremen. The Rev.

Vincent Howson has so completely rewritten, amplified ana condensed the dialogue between himself CBcrf) and his mates, that he deserves the title of Joint author." The actual theme of "The Rock," is concerned with the difficulties and activities of a group of masons in building a London church, and incidentally, a number of historic scenes, illustrative of church build ing, are introduced. The sharp con trast between the might and maies ty of the "crashing Hebraic eho- they are aptly described i ww- v-m Wwm stalks alone with his mind divided between God and his wife, feeling bitter because he cannot give more of it to God. Lygon, the gracious, slightly dry schoolmaster walks whimsically, fending off the stinging cold with flashes of wit. Captive, the blond girl who worships Chapman under the impression that she is worshipping God, takes the march and its hardships in her strong stride. Mercy, the child, is accept an obliging whales invi- not quite sure what it all is about, stan Reunion" ls an absolutely safe but is pulled this way and that by bet as a gift, for any one who cares her own small likes and desires.

I for reading at all will enjoy Mrs. Then the march is over and the Lattimore's account of her extraor-little group is submerged in a trans- I dinary honeymoon tour. TVtlft nn. U. har" hv t.v.j '-Haas.

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