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of the story and of the characters fitting that
atmosphere has evidently especially interested
the author. He has shown the lingering OF
the old leisureliness and hospitality even dur
ing the machine age, which has fastened its
grip on the new South as on the rest of the
country. The dialect, consistently employed,
perhaps assists the atmosphere, though some
may find it trifie irksome.
The plot OF Life" has considerable action,
both in the incidents of village life and in
rather complicated love intrigue. A young
minister is transplanted from the North to
Southern community, whose traditions are
those of the Old South. There he develops
under the influence of his changed environ
ment and marries wealthy girl, with an artis-
tic temperament, who does not adapt herself
well to her husbands profession. Complications
ensue, which are not helped by the arrival in
the town of Canadian, Jimmie Blake, at
tractive and friendly. There is another woman
also, jeanne Barry, so the geometry Of the
story is a square, not triangle. The various
parshioners of Nathan Macdonald furnish the
minor characters-Col Pettigrew old Dr. Tren-
ton and his son, DR.. Lee Trenton, Judge Lacey
and others. There is also the 11-year-old coll
ored boy, Malachi who provides much humor.
Judge Lacey's philosophical observations are
always pungent. Here is one: Next to los1n'
the wah, sub, the loss of the mint-ju was
the most calamitous blow the South evan SUI
fahed."
BEYOND THE BLUE SIERRA BY Honore
Morrow. New York. William Morrow & Co.
LIVERY man for himself! Meet at Ten
Mile-Wllow, beyond the canyonl" These
words are shouted at his men by Capt. Juan
Bautista de ANA, great Indian fighter Of the
Southwest about TITS. Mrs. Morrow has
chosen to weave about him her story OF the
days when Spain was extending her power
North and West from Mexico through her
military forces and her religious ENJOYS The
scene is the territory now occupied by the
States Of Arizona and California with an ex-
cursion into Mexico. There is historical basis
for the plot. ANA, commander of frontier
fort near the Mexican border, has consum-
ing ambition to accomplish an overland route
from Mexico to California. AS the story opens
he and five Of his men are entering the Cocos-
pera Canyon on their way from Fort Tubac to
Fort Terrenati. The canyon is favorite lHrk-
ing place of Apaches, through which white men
sneak singly, with their bodies camouhaged by
ocher clay and yucca shoots s
Capt ANA comes through the canyon safely,
for himself, but with death for an Apache, and
soon after is in Mexico City, meeting the Span
ish viceroy, Don Antonio Bucaren who finally
CnOOSeS MIN 70 lcdu d great eApcOitiou w IouAu
a mission and fort at the Port Of San Fran
cisco. The dangers and Joys. the hardships
and romance, the hatreds and loves which are
part of this expedition make the plot of Be
yond the Blue Sierra" one of continuous ac-
ton. It Is trek of whole families, men,
women and children, marching through the
wilderness. They fight the Apaches ride their
swimming horses through the rushing Colo
RADIO River, scale the passes of the Sierra
Madre, toll over the parched wastes Of the
desert and pick their way through treacherous
swamps. The characters of ANA, the soldier,
Bucareli, the diplomat, and Dona Ana gay,
frivolous and jealous wife of ANA, all have
vitality. Mrs. Morrow writes two types or
novels, biographical novels, such as Forever
Free" and with Malice Toward None" about
Lincoln, and "Black Daniel" about Daniel
Webster; and romances of the West, of the bet
ter kind, excelling in atmosphere and usually
having a historical basis.
THESE UNITED STATES AND HOW THEY
CAME TO BE. By Gertrude Hartman. New
York: The Macmillan Co.
THIS is a sequel to the authors earlier book,
"The World We Live in and How It Came
to Be-" Both books are adapted to children
from 10 to IL years of age. They deal with big
movements in our history and social develop
ment rather than with political and military
events Picturesque spots are emphasized and
the whole treatment is human and stimulating.
The discriminating selection of material and
the interesting, vivid style make both books
useful general reading for children. They are
not reference books The new and old pictures
in the Illustrations are delightful.