Evening star., 1928-12-16

its strong claim to attention here
means and end in complete harmony.
BY way of such union Peadar ODoa-
nell has delivered the Arranmor5
islanders over body and spirit. into the
hands of those who are so fortunate as
to read THE Way 1t Was With Them
X X X =
COMING UP THE ROAD: Memories
of a North Country Boyhood. By
Irving Bacheller, author Of "Eben
Holden" etc. Indianapolis: The
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
4 YEAR or so ago, roaming through
this same North Country, DR.. Billy
AXt of the Capitol Theater Family
made up a lovely tune to tell in his
way. OF the joy of that out-faring.
'Ambling Along" is the name of that
melody to which now and then of q
Sunday night we listen. The song
goes with these memories of the same
locality revived here by Irving Bachelor
I, too, go with both. as does every ma
tive of the New York State countryside.
A trifle farther west and south was
my grandfather's farm-rOund Weeds
port way-Where as a little girl lived
on that farm. The life there was 6
pattern almost point by point Of that
described here in the pictures of this
writer There are thousands of us
all of the Bachelor tribe and. you may
be sure, the whole kit-and-caboodlc
will hurry to relieve those unforgettablc
days by way of this book Beside the
personal delight of the book to count
less people. there is here deeply useful
place for it. since just such books a.
this one serve to keep history alive.
warming it to a deeply personal vallJ-
on from generation to generation. II
these miracle days of swift chang
such recorded memories serve q sur
passing purpose in their exact picture
of the past A beautiful book, both IN
it's spirit and in its ways Of recordin"
in an unusual transparency of effect
much that must not be allowed to slip
away into forgettings Not alone in
It's own particular setting but az
through the country where condition
are not greatly different the book wi
serve fine and highly valuable end.
THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER. 7
A. A. Milne. Pictures by Ernest Il
Shepard. New York: E. P. Dut
ton & Co.
SEATED in my own good chair undo
- the lamp light 1 was reading-cer-
tainly I thought 1 was reading-abou,
that diverting group of neighbors round
the Pooh-C Corner House. About Pooh
Bear himself and Rabbit and Piglet anG
Christopher Robin and Tiger. DON
ask me what "tigger" is. just tax
the name and fix him up yourself. YoN
can't go wrong if you stick close to th2'
word, Tiger
Suddenly on one of the pages. nc
very far over, there was Pooh-Bca'
trudging down the road. on his arm {
basket. 'just an ordinary biggish sol
of basket full Of" And Pooh turn
ed his head toward me, right there OF
that page and winked his eye in ?
Want to come along?" as plain as day.
Then. all at once, knew that this We
no reading. not by a long sight. T
much real-er thing than that And ]
went along you may be sure. Such
picnics and larks and doingS as neve,
we're before. such games and songs and
dances, all made right up out of nothin
at all, with everybody singing at the
top of his voice and dancing at th0
very tip of his own 10 toes! Fine? NJ
end of fine, take it from me. CROWN"
a bit calmer. or soberer. I said to my
self, why this is book with prinl
and pictures and things" Well, maybc
it was, and is, but nobody ever sav
print and pictures capsring all over tn
place as these did. with the enormou
number of things that Pooh and Rabbi
and Piglet and Christopher Robin an
Tigger had to look after all at once.
I wanted to say word here abou
the joys of ChildhcOd-second child
hood-but there is newspaper ogre
called Space" He stands at m
shoulder this minute, growing, "No
Not today"
wire just brought to me from
Pooh. 1t raads-''Am best seller stcN
Do not know what this means stop BIT
1 am 1T stop" Signed, "Pooh-Bee"