Evening star., 1931-12-20
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1dnoO1d IEE LlCh-GATE: Biography OF
the Little Church Around the Corner BY
Ishbel Ross. Illustrated from dry points
by Ralph L. Boyer. New York: William
Farquhar Payson.
\h/HAT is there so deeply impressive about
the old church, great or small, seated
downtown SO quiet, among the shops and ware
houses and stores, in the midst of noisy city
trafnc! The aloof cathedral, lofty In archi-
tectural grandeur, is, to be sure, of a majesty
quite its own. But, plainly it lacks the init
mate and everyday solicitude over the trials and
troubles Of mere man that the little old fame
Just standing by, so clearly offers.
Among the most celebrated cf all downtown
temples Is the Little Church Around the Cor
ner IN New York, whose roster of weddings and
burials and other momentous sacred doings of
the sons and daughters Of earth includes many
well known names in the professions of one
kind and another. Includes many names quite
unknown as well
In very beautiful book, upon which William
Farquhar Payson has expended his best crafts
manship and wherein Ralph Boyer presents l6
dry-poant pictures that speak in words OF sheer
loveliness-in this charming book Is the life
story Of the celebrated church
"A quiet acre" that invites and shelters young
love, that offers haven to the wanderer, that
gives sanctuary to the pursued; that has within
its long life done one or another of these Samari-
tan deeds for the harassed and needy calendar
OF its brides becomes an ornamental end-piece
of the tale itself. Its family kinship with the
theater and artists of the stage; its fellowship
with poet and painter; its distinction in many
somewhat unchurchly ways, provided only that
these be human ways-al of these things come
together here to celebrate at this particular
season Of good will the high and beautiful spirit,
the worthy and honorable Lille of the Little
Church Around the Corner
I'd like to have this book. You would too
For It Is that kind of book.
HOW TO TELL YOUR FRIENDS FROM THE
APES. BY Will Cuppy, author Of How to
Be Hermit" etc. Pictures by Jacks. New
York: Horace Liveright.
A CHARGE against the book b its oversize
" Clearly Of first-aid intent It should fryt
OF an be a handy book. In other words a
pocket book, ready at an instant's need to pull
forth for swift glance, bent upon tdentinca.
tson and, ultimately, upon self protection by way
Of flight.
Again the book Is a shade too scientific for
the many and direct uses to which 1t Is
predestined. 'Pithecanthropus" "Sinanthropus
pektnensis," are terms to wrestle with not for
use when the prime object of the moment Is
flight and not the fine distinctions of the
geologic ages IN their man making powers and
competitions.
Aside from these two slight errancies, both on
the side of scholarship and its fun disclosures
How to Tel Your Friends From the Apes" II
a highly useful book. Comprehensive too since
it includes many orders Of life birds and such,
that might have been men today except for
some unforesight and bad management On their
part.
fine adventure in pure scholarship, enlisted
for duty IN daily life The personal reaction
to 1t Is, however, certainly not exhilaratinR-
that involuntary swing of the reader I'D to the
mirror on the wall with the pesky volume IN
hand.
And here we all are-man bird, beast, crawl
ing and creeping thing of every pattern and
all crazy as looms or bedbugs-the two con-
cededly clear cases of geological lunacy, from
early ages up to now