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YOUTH IN HARLEY, by Gordon Hall Gerould '99, New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.

Youth comes to Harley in the person of the new principal of Harley Academy, young-Stephen Quaid, fresh from Harvard, who will teach for a year while he gets his bearings. Youth encounters Youth in the person of Cynthia Darrell who teaches the primary school in the village. And against a background of rural New England in the days when Cleveland is defeating Harrison for the Presidency, Youth strikes fire from Youth and Nature works at her processes.

Harley is a pleasant enough place for patient folk to spend their days in—little, remote Harley with its Common and old meeting-house where every one comes "even the Unitarians," and its old trees framing "glimpses of massive white houses with green shutters, each within its own prim enclosure." But Youth like Stephen Quaid's is not patient. Life in Harley, simple as it is, assumes complexities for Stephen. On the one hand he is eager to marry Cynthia and he fears delay—Harley offers too many examples of the lost occasion, men and women who had high ambitions and meant to do other things than they have succeeded in doing in life, but whom circumstance struck in upon and thwarted of their dreams. On the other hand he has his own way to make, he must get on as far and as fast as he can, and that seems to mean postponement of his happiness. Furthermore Cynthia has her own vision of a career and there is the constant fear on Stephen's part that if they go their own ways for a term of years they will miss each other at the end. The problem grows until the lovers threaten to drift apart but at the end comes readjustment and solution. From his year at Harley, Stephen Quaid gains something almost as valuable to him as Cynthia—an enlargement 'Of human sympathy.

Youth in Harley is continuously interesting even though it is rarely profoundly moving. If it is possible to exercise too much restraint in picturing Youth in an environment that must needs restrain it, Professor Gerould has done so. Cynthia and Stephen come to us too impersonally; only in occasional passages do they step out of cold type and loom alive. One wishes for more passion on the part of Stephen, more essential womanliness on the part of Cynthia. There is little of the poignance of young love in their encounter.

The minor characters, however, are of excellent substance. If there are times when Stephen is a prig and Cynthia an iceberg, the very Harley is made vivid for us by half a score of lesser figures—Henrietta Creswell, Madam Beatty, Parson Ransom, fine and typical country preacher, and Mr. Leeds, the ineffectual farmer with his passion for scholarship. Stephen Quaid begins to come into his spiritual majority when he first realizes that these people,, imprisoned in Harley, manage somehow "not to be pitiable."

The background, the localization, too, is of admirable texture.' The social life of .a country community as the last century wore away to its close is revealed with sympathetic artistry—village fair, ladies' social, sleighing party, town meeting, all are portrayed, even to the circus passing through. And the weather, which in a New England story should always be lurking around the corner, blows now hot, now cold for Youth in Harley.

Finally, the author has achieved a realistic novel—if everyday people doing uneventful things constitutes realism—that manifests both spiritual insight and a sense of structure —an achievement not to be minimized in view of the tendency of the times.

K. A. ROBINSON,

SAILING SOUTH, by Philip S. Marden '94. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1921.

The author's personal observations during a cruise from New York southward to Cuba, Panama Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama, Costa Rica, Porto Rico and Jamaica are recorded in an entertaining manner and although the volume is intended to serve as a diversion rather than a source of information, many interesting facts are set forth which should help to give the casual reader a better understanding of these, our southern neighbors.

After considering in a very general way the climatic and other conditions attendant upon such a cruise, Mr. Harden strikes a note which to the reviewer seems of considerable importance, —the fact that too large a part of the American people have but a vague familiarity with these countries some of which are under our guardianship. Tourists have found that these areas are attractive not merely because of their nearness to our coasts, but also because they offer certain foreign qualities which seem to lure people in the search for something different from the home surroundings. Moreover, these lands are fast assuming importance inasmuch as they possess considerable resources and the climatic conditions in at least some of the countries mentioned are of such character as to invite development.

In an interesting narrative the author sketches his observations en route to Havana and after briefly describing that city deals somewhat more fully with the Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama. Conditions of life in the two areas are contrasted and interesting bits of history are recalled to memory. Leaving the Zone and travelling with Mr. Marden to Costa Rico one may obtain glimpses of that country and its people.

The last half of the volume deals .with Porto Rico and Jamaica. Following a chapter in which the author tells in humorous style the preparations which must be made prior to leaving New York for a visit to Porto Rico, the reader is brought in contact with the conditions of life on this island and in Jamaica. Again brief historical sketches, points dealing with topography, climatic conditions, resources, the people and their habits are interwoven with the narrative.

"Sailing South" should prove interesting not only to those who may contemplate a similar cruise and who wish to gain information which is not detailed in its character, but also to the stay-at-home who desires to know something concerning these lands.

E. D. E.

"The State University and the New South, being the proceedings of the inauguration of Harry Woodburn Chase as President of the University of North Carolina" contains the '"lnaugural Address" by Harry Woodburn Chase '04.

Mr. Leonard D. White 'l4 is the author of "The Origin of Utility Commissions in Massachusetts," in the Journal of Political Economy for March, 1921. He is also the author of "The New Hampshire Constitutional Convention," published in the Michigan Law Review for February.

Prof. Charles Downer Hazen '89 has written the introduction to "The Kaiser vs. Bismarck; suppressed letters by the Kaiser and new chapters from the autobiography of the Iron Chancellor." Harper & Bros., New York.

"An Index of the Physical Volume of Production" by E. E. Day '05, has been reprinted from the review of Economic Statistics. Sept.-Jan., 1921.

The poem, "Camilla Sings," by Shirley Harvey '16, appears in the Granite Monthly for March, 1921.

Beardsley Ruml 'IS is the author of "Reconstruction in Miental Tests" which is published in the Journal of Philosophy, March 31, 1921.

An article entitled "How 'I Guess' what we will do next year," by Arthur L. Lewis '08, appears in the April number of System.

Marshall P. Thompson '92 is the author of "Royal Auverge Sans Tache" published in the North American Review for February, 1921.

Mr. John Cotten Dana '78, is the author of "Suggestions." This little volume published by F. W. Faxon Company is a collection of short paragraphs which Mr. Dana has collected from his writings on library subjects in the past thirty years.

Mr. M. L. Stimpson '78, is the author of "Early Days in Fenshow" in the February, 1921, issue of the Missionary magazine called FeJnshow.

"Congregational Work of Minnesota, 1832-1920 by many contributors edited and partly written by Warren Upham, B. S. c. Archaeologist of the Minnesota Historical Society," published by the Congregational Conference of Minnesota contains a most interesting-chapter by Warren Upham 71, entitled "Dartmouth Voices Bringing Congregationalism Here. In this chapter he discusses the work of William P. Boutwell and Shermann Hall of the class of 1828, Richard Hall and Charles Seccombe of the class of 1847, and Charles Shedd of the class of 1826.

The May issue of National Service contains an article "War Pictures as Propaganda" by Kendall Banning '02.

"The Housing Problem in its Relation to the Contentment of Labor," by Morton C. Tuttle 97, has been reprinted in pamphlet form from the Manufacturers Record.

(< Thomson Rich 'IS, has a poem entitled Song,"'in the April issue of Poetry.

"Forecasting the Growth of Nations" by Raymond Pearl '99 and Fred C. Kelley appears in the May issue of Harper's Magazine.

Gene W. Markey '18 is the author of two stories, ''Cynthia of the Sonnet" in the April issue of Harpers Bazaar, and "The Striker" in the June issue of the Blue Book Magazine.