Evening star., 1934-10-07

ment In the mountains, infieMby en-
couraged by his father, and a long
ing for the sea and the foreign lands
to which it could take him, a longing
encouraged by his mother, whose an
cestors have been clipper captains.
| His mothers influence Is continued
and intensified by Leila, daughter OF
! an elderly relative who comes to
keep house for the Gales at the death
of Ted's mother. She is a gadfy to Ted,
stirring him to restlessness and urg-
ing him to seek a broader life i'll a
bigger world. In the hope that she
will succeed, she marries him and
perhaps she would have won II the
elder Gales accident had not settled
Ted'S future. Marriage and two chill
dren do not tie Leila to the village.
She is a child of the world and as
journalist sails the seas and visits
the foreign shores she and Ted have
romanced about as children, return
ing for only brief visits at long in
tervals to the village home.
Ted, as fixed as one of the granite
boulders, never leaves his native set
ting. His tragedy is that everything
he cares for leaves him. Leila leaves
when her children are still small.
She will return in her old age, when
she can no longer travel and work.
and Ted will be glad to have her with
him. His old father dies. The
World War takes away his son, young
Ted, who has become his companion
and loves the mountains as he does.
His daughter Ann keeps his house and
approaches companionship for time,
then marries and leaves, though she
and her family continue to be one
of TedS burdens. Finally, the very
life that he loves drops away from
him. The town encroaches on the
mountain village. Chain stores take
his customers. Automobiles dash
along the country roads. Airplanes
drone over his roof. Summer visitors
introduce city amuSements. City
people buy up the most desirable
farms. Swept against his will into
modernism by his aggressive son-in-
law, Ted allows his store to become a
link in a chain and takes plunge
into farm real estate. The depres-
sion comes, with dire results for him,
as for all his neighbors. But through
it all he remains as Stanch as his
mountains, the support of his troubled
friends, a great character. The course
of the story Interestingly traces the
changes which have come in the life
in any Eastern mountain region, from
the Civil War to the present time.
nf ie ~ Gr pnalofs
finest novels, to be classed with The
Avalanche" His Family" and Great
Winds" If not perhaps with his best
work, The Harbor."
REACTION AND REVOLUTION
18l4-l832. BY Frederick B. Artz
In the Rise of Modern Europe Series
edited by William L. LANCER. New
York: Harper & Bros.
THIS volume, complete in itself, i:
one of an important historical
project which, when finished. will
cover European history from the dawn
of the modern era, about 1850. to the
revolutionary period following the
World War, 1919 and beyond. The
authors of all the volumes will be
scholars of standing in the field OF
European history. DR.. Artz is asso-
ciate professor of history at Oberlin
College, has thrice been awarded the
Bowdoin Prize at Harvard, and is well
known for his book, France Under the
Bourbon Revolution" In reading the
prospectus for the series, this reviewer
was impressed that its 20 volumes
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for any one with keen interest in his
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preted. In the treatment of all the
periods the political-military narra-
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inant factors are to be emphasized in
their interrelationships
The present volume deals with the
aftermath of the Napoleonic period,
and shows the significance Of develop
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from the abdication of Napoleon to
the passage Of the first English reform
bill 1t begins with survey of Eu-
ropean society after 25 years of almost
continuous war and explains the status
of monarchs, ariStocracieS, statesmen,
churches and clergy, the middle class
and peasants. Following the Napoleonic
Wars, came first reaction, then many
abortive revolutionary movements,
then a new period of liberalism. Il
lustrations and excellent general and
chapter photographers add to the
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