Evening star., 1935-01-20

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THE BOOK OF SUNNYBANK. BY
Albert Payson Terhune: Harper &
Brothers.
THE dogs Of Sunnybank, Mr.. Ter
hune's home on the shore Of
Pompton Lake, in Northern New Jer-
sey, have been responsible for many
delightful books by their master. Now
he tells the story of Sunnybank for its
own sake, not merely as a setting for
the dogs. The house, now old, but not
antique, was built by Mr.. Terhune's
father and mother soon after their
marriage. When they bought the
land the nearest railway station was
at Paterson, 8 miles away; now a. "yel-
low concrete highway, greasy, need
lessly wide" cuts through the lake
and hill country, "a fostering scar,
and over it, day and night, roar thou
sands of motor cars. Mr.. Terhune
does not like the highway or the cars,
but Sunnybank, named for the sunny,
grassy slope which is the site and
surrounded by mighty oaks, Is his be-
loved retreat from the tumult of un-
acceptable modern life. 1T is home.
Our home. Not a show place. Motor
ing sightseers are not welcome. I'm
sorry. But they're not. There's plenty
of room for them on the nice, wide
yellow concrete turnpike" Mr.. Ter
hume writes lovingly about his house,
gardens, trees, birds, dogs, collections
of books and weapons, and neighbors,
all in the same mellow style which
marked his autobiography. ITO the
Best Of My Memory
WOMEN WHO MAN OUR CLUBS.
BY Mildred Marshall Scouller,
LII. B. Philadelphia: The John
c. Winston Co.
creation. The earliest clubs for
women were started shortly after the
Civil War by women already nearly
buried in domestic duties. Probably
a primary motive was brief escape
from some of those duties, even If it
were only too often to a gathering
where domestic problems were dis
cussed. There was always the tea or
other material refreshment period
afterward This book by Mildred
Scouller is not a history of the
woman's club movement. 1t is COL
lection of brief biographies of women
who have been prominent in the Cen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs,
since its founding by Mrs. Jennie c.
Croly ctJennie June') in 1889. Nearly
so photographs of women active in
General Federation work illustrate
the volume.
DISTINGUISHED WOMEN WRIT
ERS. By Virginia Moore. New
York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
IN MAKING her selection of women
= writers for this collection of II
biographies, Virginia Moore, herself
poet, has searched for souls rather
than long photographed achieve
ment. Passion of some sort, love, pro-
found grief, the anguish of antici-
pated death, is the literary inspiration
which she finds in Marie Bashkirtseff,
Nine. de Sevigne, Christina Rossetti,
Dorothy Wordsworth, Sappho, Emily
and Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Bar
rett Browning, Elinor Wylie, Kath-
crime Mansfield and the others. In
validism and the melancholy attend
ing it have provided the background,
if not the cause, for the literary work
of number of the women included,
as the BronteS, Emily Dickinson,
Marie BaShkirtSeff, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning and Katherine Mansfield,
and Miss Moore is much interested
| in the relation of their morbidity to
their poetry and prose. Her method
is akin to Gamaliel Bradfords
''pSychography." Most of the essays
have originally appeared in maga-
| zines.
ANNE OF ENGLAND. BY NJ. R.
HopknSon. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
QUEEN ANNE, though her name
| ~ was attached to furniture and
| architecture, was not one of the great
! Queens Of the world, not an Eliza
beth of England nor a Catherine Of
Russia. She was almost the last flare
of the Stuarts, who persisted in Eng
lish history for some years after
Charles I succumbed on the scaffold
| to Cromwell's intrigues. Anne was
the daughter of James, Duke of York,
afterward James II, and his secretly
married wife, Anne Hyde, daughter
of the chancellor of Charles IL If
Mrs. HopkinSon cannot make Anne
a great Queen, she shows her as
a far from colorless personality. Her
youth, spent at a notoriously disso-
lutte court, and her marriage to a
Danish prince, a love match, were
only the prelude to life of intrigues
in which she was an unwilling par
ticipant, during the reigns of her
father and William of Orange, and
even during her own reign, when she
was the tool of the Marlboroughs.
Mrs. Hopkinson has made use of con-
temporary journals and letters and
has drqu a rorfra n full of iotarae%