Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22
bel Cartoons Year." etc. New
York. The Macmillan Cnmnany


This writer specializes in nice girls.
Here is another one, Marian Frear-
to go along with Isabel Carleton, who
is the chief figure in more than one
book by Margaret Ashmun. Marian
Frear and her mother, remote and
solitary in their little house by the
lake, find substantial friApds in the
family of newcomers that move for
the summer into the neighborhood.
The summer is taken up with all
kinds of pleasant summary doings-
picnics motor rides, sailings. swim
mings and the rest of it. No. it is not
a love story-just young folks, three
girls and a boy, playing about like
healthy young animals. Knowing this
writer however, one has an eye open
toward another book about Marian
Frear and the one boy in the bunch
than the romance of two families In
the country, neighboring delightful
ly with one another.
Up THE SEINE TO THE BATTLE
FIELDS. By Anna Bowman Dodd,
author of Three Normandy Inns,
etc. Illustrated. New York: Har-
per & Bros.
The River Seine, ripping in and out
of the history of France, could tell
new and unparalleled tales of man s
inhumanity to man, glorified by man
if their waters could talk as they
flow. The author, serving as inter
prefer reveals a panorama OF the
world war with tense simplicity
that gives to each of her nearly four
hundred pages the pulsing realism or
personal vision. and makes one forget
any previous determination to read
no more books that follow the red
trail of war. Beginning with de-
scription of Havre. and all that city
stood for when its national quiet was
aroused by the sudden thrush that
made her port of welcome to the Amer
lean forces landing in France, the
writer goes on and on from one city
to the next: pausing here and tnere
to look backward to long-dead royal
ties that left their niger MARKS ark s; on
the story of France; pausing for side
trips to gay coast resorts; pilgrim
ages to cathedrals, medieval cloisters
and chateaux, all vivified with his
tory tradition. and romances that
might be either or both. and each
before: and, finally. off for a tour of
the roads to the battlefields of
France The book closes with The
Battle of Amiens." "the turning of the
tide in the fortunes of the allied
armies in 191S-a victory our Amer
lean forces helped to win" To the
compelling interest of the text is
added the pictured charm of many il
Illustrations; the frontispiece showing
THE Harbor of Havre in Wartime"
CAPE ODDITIES. By Dennis and
Marion Chatham. With illustra-
tons by Harold Cue. Boston,:
Houghton Miff1in Company.
The title gives advance assurance of
the iovable humor that bubbles through
every page of this honestly delightful
little book. The authors give glimpses
of the sturdy Cape folk from the
viewpoint of their summer home-a
sunny little house on the shores of
Buzzards Bay-and as they recall their
vacation experiences, some of them
published in magazines,
one senses the brine of sea breezes,
the pungency of pine and the whole
some everyday humanity of natives
whose characters and customs are SO
portrayed.
The reader is reminded that Capt
John Smith, Names original summer
visitor, saw in the Cape a "headland
of high hills of sand overgrown with
shrubbie pines-the Maine sea on one
side and a great bay on the other
that Joseph Lincoln has told us of the
people, and that Thoreau has written