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...Master and Mrs. Haring are: Mrs. C. Nichols Greene, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Laurence Burns, Mr. and Mrs. George Fine, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Nickerson Hartt, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Francis McClennan, Professor and Mrs. Charles H. McIlwain, Professor and Mrs. Paul J. Sachs, and Mrs. and Mrs. Delano Wight...
...CHRONICLE OF AARON KANE-Frederick Wight-Farrar & Rinehart...
Except for the wooden character of its central figure, The Chronicle of Aaron Kane contains all the ingredients of a racy historical romance. The work of a portrait painter whose first novel, South, was published last year, it is illustrated with fine handsome color reproductions of Frederick Wight's Cape Cod portraits, runs to 559 well-filled pages. But for readers these graces will not compensate for the lack of any human rattle and recklessness in hard-pressed Aaron Kane. Heroes and heroines of historical romance may be as incredible as Anthony Adverse or as absurd as Scarlett...
...four wealthy New Yorkers got into an argument over which had the finest yacht. Upshot was the first ocean race, across the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to the Isle of Wight for a pot of $90,000 between Pierre Lorillard's 105-ft. Vesta, James Gordon Bennett Jr.'s 107-ft. Henrietta and the 106-ft. Fleetwing of George & Franklin Osgood. Choosing December as the windiest month, these three schooners set off with professional crews, many a misgiving in a rising wind. Vesta and Henrietta had their cockpits boarded over but not Fleetwing. On the eighth day, wallowing...
UNTIL I FIND-Edgcumb Pinchon-Knopf ($2.50). Sturdy, vivid semi-autobiographical tale of a boy's adventures on the Isle of Wight and in the New Forest in Victorian times. Gypsy firesides to which the boy's own Gypsy blood entices him and an ancient school where he learns singlestick and archery provide the picaresque background for adolescent rebellions and escapades...