Word: archers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ARCHER FULLINGIM...
...CAPTAIN ARCHER'S DAUGHTER-Mar-garet Deland-Harper ($2.50). Starting at a gallop Authoress Deland's novel, her first since 1926, slows down when she forces the story round the same track twice, in order to reiterate its theme. Even with this change of pace the story is worth telling; its author's graceful, polished competence makes the telling true to romance...
Experiences at sea had freed old Captain Archer of local New England trammels, just as experiences on shore had left his wife tradition-bound. Between these two influences their only child, Mattie. grew up, strait-laced and windy-willed at the same time. After her mother's death Mattie is free to do as she pleases, but nothing happens until the Ladybird and its blue-eyed Captain Isadore Davis put in to Bowfort. At the sight of free-&-easy Isadore, Mattie's blood goes wild. Out to sea she sails with him, without letting her father know...
...Captain Archer takes her in as if nothing had ever happened. But Mattie is moonstruck with too much trouble, and her son adds more. After his engagement to the wealthy Richards girl, he turns around and marries Bessie Casey, a poor fisherman's daughter. Mattie vaguely senses that he is repeating her own headlong mistake, but she encourages him in memory of the brief bliss she once knew. Bessie Casey, though no equal, will make a good wife. Captain Archer consoles himself with the thought that great-grand-children were what he wanted most...
...University Press has announced two new publications, "John Jacob Astor", by Kenneth Wiggins Porter, research assistant in Business History at the Business School, and "The Proverb", by Professor Archer Taylor of the University of Chicago...