Evening star., 1927-12-04

son. he is able to declare Il am an
other man. l am your father"
Sumptuous work on a theme that in
less competent hands could deliver
little more tnan repugnance and re-
fusal on the part of the reader.
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SOUTHERN EXPOSURE. BY Peter
Mitchell Wilson The University of
North Carolina Press.
THE immediate point of Southern
Exposure" is North Carolina, ma
tive State of this author Through
kinshp of many sorts, however-lo-
cality. climate. economic resources,
earlier social and industrial institu-
tions-the book expands to include
broadly the essentials of the eastern
section of the whole South.
A companonable volume, inviting
you to go along with Mr.. Wilson,
strolling back here into his. childhood
and youth in happy holiday of old
memories. Setting out from Washing
ton, the present home of the writer,
you will with him visit the boyhood
home in North Carolina, seeing 1t WV
idly under the magic of these awak-
ened recollections. Around it, too, are
the fields and away over there other
the way of the South What the fam
lily and the neighbors did day by day.
| with many a smiling incident center
ing upon the carefree life of the negro,
makes an enjoyable and historically
useful part of the excursion. Then.
| the war with it's harvest of bitterness
and hatred. softening now under
closer contacts and a better acquaint-
ance between North and South. You
will see. too. a picture of North Caro-
| lima under it's recent industrial revival.
| Besides. before you the great men of
| the State will pass in n review of
| their service, not alone to their own
commonwealth, but to the Nation it.
self as a whole. The substance of the
best of history lies in studies of this
sort. A little volume, the companion
of an hour or so, bringing out warm
panorama of the earlier South through
so appreciative and loving picture of
single comprehensive illustrative
example offered by a devoted native
son.
JALNA. BY Mazo de la Roche, au-
thor of Possession" etc. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co.
iNOI an easy ldSh, tlle one dSSlSHeu
herself by the author of this
prize winner. "Jalna." The invention
of a mere love story. even one of
most vicissitous course. would have
been play beside the creation of this
novel. For here is whole family
three generations of Unprotected in
the image of life itself. each per-
sonality vivid, complete, impinging
upon the others only by virtue of a
common family strain, never through
any failure on the part of the author
to hold fast to the individuality of
every one of the tribe. For this is
something of tribe, or perhaps
more of a clan. with fealty to the
head of the house as it's dominating
bond. Here are three generations
an amazing old grandmother. going
on toward a hundred. the nominal
head of the house. Here are two
sons. Here are grandchildren. with
trickle of n-lawS. A family of
English pattern set upon a Cana
dian estate of a thousand acres or
more. where life in the English fash
ion spreads the action of this novel.
A passionate tribe. unrestrained. ar
rogant, tempestuous. united only in
support of the family head. Flashes
of love, like Summer lightning, are
seen here and there, but this is in
no sense a love story. Rather is it a
family chronicle, written while all