Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

BARNECAT WAYS. BY A. P Richardson Il
Illustrations by Kenneth w. Thompson. New
York: The Century Co.
A Ii up AID down the Appalachians, all up
and down the Atlantic Coast, are priceless
leftovers of settlement days of Colonial days
which. as yet, have given hardly a sign that
national age of 800 years. priceless leftovers"
because these are bits of original manuscript
so to speak, camera products as it were, pic
turing many a point of departure to which
important aspects of the present owe straight
lineage. Modes of speech conservative with
holdings, independence in outlook and thought
thrift and, In sum, an originality that is fast
smoothing out to a level of complete sameness
under the speedy and inclusive contacts of
the present Hardly too much of recognition
and encouragement can be given these con-
SENATORS of our American past. The old shore
ways Of New England and the secluded life of
the Southern mountains, these are among the
clear treasures Of American literature
Along the New jersey shore Barnegat has
made home fer fishermen and their families
since the settlers came this way American
stock of the straightest. Pioneer character as
it was at the outset Ways of life but little
changed. Rough folks, hard some say Mar
row, maybe, but deeply human, without -four
ishes to speech or behavior. A good discovery
spond instantly to that early America hidden
here and there in undisturbed sameness Mr..
Richardson in this book of Ways" shows plain
ly the whole hearted quality of his own response
to these fishermen and the hanllets of Barnegat.
There is no pretense here. No reach for a new
coat of local color" Instead, Uncle Charlie
Broad" himself steps out to have a word or
two with the reader about the doing up Barne-
gat way, about the fishing and the sea, the
hunting along the low shore about talks Mt the
grocery of nights-oh, about the whole sum
of life on Barnegat. Green Goose" is a de-
licious yarn of the outlander who came a-hunt-
ing that way THE Singer of the Sedges" Is
a bit of handwovern poetry, its warp and wool
the sedges and the intense and interesting life
that these invite and support. The whole is a
JOY freshening joy, with wind and salt afr
and laundering sea ever at hand, in the
heart of him, reading.
RABBI BURNS. By Aben Handel, author of
Vaudeville" etc. New York: Covici-Friede
publishers.
THE Jew in modern life has not been over
| fortunate in his Observation-Disclosures, poet
novelist These divide, broadly, into two classes
One, engaged in epic lamentations over the
lost glory of a great race through Gentle perse-
cuton and injustice. The other, of humorous
and satirical bent, making use of the more I'M
fortunate part of Jewish life for purposes of
caricature and comedy. Both points of view
both modes of consideration, give incomplete
inadequate pictures of the Jew element
in modern life. Nor does Aben Handel in
Rabbi Burns wholly escape the disadvantage
of such bias. The book is satire mild one,
however Better than most, does it present by
way Of the good rabbi Jewish community
greatly excited over the project of erecting q
vast tempIe within their town Wen build