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We liked that about the goats especially, and so did the author herself evidently, for she repeated it word for word at the end. The story is that of Joanna, whose mother went out to South Africa with her missionary husband and died there leaving an infant. daughter, an "adventurer's child." Joanna's adventures are destined to be mostly those of the imagination, however, for she is early caught in the toils of the world. She marries when she is very young and in the stress of the war, a young man who charms her chiefly by his capacity for nonsense. She learns later that his capacities have not included th bTt t t 11 h th t h · 3 e a 11 .Y 0 ~II er h a e tsk consumptive, an 1 ness t e war rna es once more acute. . . So wtth two cht!dren who a~e of course threatened wtth a bad hentage, and an invalid husband Joanna takes up the struggle of life on a barren farm. Still she keeps, through all that follows, the land of her imagination ; nothinsr can readily down her because she is an "adventurer's child." There is something splendid about the picture of Joanna dragged down by poverty and overwork, by the unkindness and stupidity of people, yet never conquered. There lives in her mind bright as the flame on a secret altar the belief in the beautiful world she has never seen. In the end when everything seems to crash around her she is still not conquered, but goes off to find her dream. The book is excellently written, sometimes with that quality of detachment which spells true art. . I Critic .. ,.ta Tliili . Boob for Girla' Clala -~-------- -- March Z. 1 . - __ .., - Tal····· f· ~ BOOKS .,.....,... ................ Wiattl'llllOOil B., Iflllpole A romance of ·modern London society that will need no r~ommendation to people who know Walpole. Do.bleday, Ilona ····· ··· S2.oo Tbt Bat Poems of 19Z7 BtlitN 6v L. A. G. 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