Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
PIGS IN CLOVER. BY Frances Noyes Hart
author of~"My A. z. f." etc. New York:
Doubleday, Doran 4 Co., Inc.

author OF my A. E. r., etc. rev 1OEk:
Doubleday, Doran Co, Inc.
UNE! Time to go. To go where and
what for? Oh, anywhere and for just
nothing at all-except everything Not,
however, upon any heavy expedition
nor enc too laborious. Not in June!
Here comes q motor. Roomy. pigs
in Clover" What could better fit a Summer
mood than that magic car that slows all
by itself and swings its door, little. And
we are of with the two inside it. On over
the white roads OF France and along its rivers
OF singing sound-Loire, Seine, Meuse, Rnone,
Garonne. Through the wide chateau country
and where great cathedrals point back to the
artistry Of the Middle Ages in challenge and
triumph. Across, clear frcm North to South
Through Normandy to Paris. Then to Bordeaux
and the Basque country. To Provence, through
Burgundy and back to Paris. Thrown In are
mdnights and moonlight, mountains OF en-
chantment, rivers silver and molten castles
OF bewitchment where ghosts CT pope and
prince of warriors and women, dissolve past
and present into a scene OF pure magic
Not all moonlight and midnight. however
Here is traveller in whom the blend OF old
acquaintance, with sense OF deep enjoyment
brings out most useful, and delightful,
partnership Here, the competent and way
wise woman. Here, too, the artSt-poetlc In
feeling and word-wayS So there are hours
of daytime when rest and food, when plain
plans and means are to the front. At these
points definite stopping places are noted ana
summed in practical precision Tor common
use Properly, these are of slight proportlon'
but here they are. Then on again, In
seemingly complete intimacy with the places
through which pigs in Glover" makes IT'S
happy way Right here is the distinction OF
this book-one Of them. 1t does not feel IKE
a travel book. Rather, 1t feels like travel
j SELF like old contacts renewed, like ones own
matured discrimination among these hail.
forgotten places and scenes. The book has
fba obviously
that very zest for those two in the car-the
two Harris.
A delightful adventure. wherein all the
French gods of bed-and-board unite with the
scenic and historic deities Of that beautiful
country to give a Summer journey the true
essence Of France to couple OF rovers and
by way OF them, to the rest OF us reading at
rome.
SILVER SEAS AND GOLDEN CITIES
Joyous Journey Through Latin Lands.
By Frances Parkinson Reyes, author OF
"Queen Anne's Lace" etc. New York.
Horace Liveright.
BIG book. Yet it spreads wide circuit
n OF space, and deals with swift and
momentous changes. 1t organizes vast
panorama of LAYS and related peoples The
Republics Of SJuth America constitute the
basic theme Of description and discussion. THIS
scope, In itself, is, indeed, wide. Added
thereto IS the authors choice Of setting out
for South America by way of Portugal ana
Spain in order to gather certain ancestral
drifts and lines explanatory and hlumlnatlve
of the Latin American region to the South
Again an informal and companionable way OF
writing serves it's intended purpose OF intimate
approach to the reader and corresponding
Interest in the Joyous journey" It serves
such purpose and tends likewise to increase
the length and bulk of the big volume.
However it is a most readable account.
Seville the Ibero-American Exposition was in
full swing. Where, also, a perfectly good King
was on the throne of Spain, one whom we
see and hear, in the story. Times sweep along
Nowadays. And there is no King OF Spain at
the moment.
IN America, and its study, the book becomes
of multitudinous quality. So much to see 50
many things to keep in mind all at once
So much Of going from here to there and
back again that the whole becomes something
OF the rush of movement that Is fatal to actual
10y in any kind or mode Of travelling. With
the majority Of writers the experiment would
have BEEN indeed, fatal. Mrs. Reyes Is, how
ever, of trained habit, Of practical outlook, OF
wide experience in more than enc field OF
human interest. student of politics, deeply
and partakingy interested in many social
movements, most intelligent on-looker In
life itself, recognized writer. So, that which
would have ended in confusion and disarray
to almost any other sent out upon this mission
CT woe ana important hVeStisdtol' peeoMeS
here a vivid picture. Crowded, to be sure, yet
with order in its packed lines. With brilliance
of effect in its amazing shifts Of scene.
illustrations, many and finely chosen, add
markedly to the value of that which is clearly
a great project, competently conceived and
projected.
A VILLA IN BRITTANY. BY Donald Moffat.
New York Doubleday, Doran & Co.
GUNNER travel is a glarnorous business
, when it is over. There are those, however,
with memories so keen as to deny the enchant-
ment Of such seasonal pursuit at even the dis
tnrna Of Miduinter itself This pronn of pro-