20–7519
“Though it has the usual love story—three of them, in fact—and ends with the heroine clasped in the hero’s arms in the most orthodox manner, the real theme of the tale, that one upon which the interest of the novel depends, is not love but—food. We cannot at the moment recall any recent book in which there was so much and such good eating as there is in this tale of a tea room. The greatest desire of Nancy Martin’s life was to feed her fellow-mortals, men and women, on the proper kinds of nourishing foods containing the proper number of calories. Wherefore she opened the charming tea room which she called ‘Outside inn,’ engaged a French chef who was at once a genius and a true artist, secured several highly competent waitresses, and served excellent meals of the most abundant, varied and tempting food at a moderate, a very moderate price. Incidentally, Nancy Martin adopted a little girl and had an unhappy love affair before she found her real mate.’—N Y Times
Booklist 16:313 Je ’20 + N Y Times 25:236 My 9 ’20 420w
“Altogether it is entertaining in its way, but it is to be hoped that American taste will sometime outgrow the romantic immaturity which can accept such a work as having any relation to life and character.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 420w
KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG). Bobbins of Belgium. il *$2 (6c) Funk 746
20–5590
“A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages.” (Sub-title) In the preface the author gives an account of the heroic efforts made during the war to continue the campaign, begun before the war, of restoring and developing the threatened lace industry. A brief survey of the history of lace-making is given in the introduction with a description of its peculiar milieu as a home industry and the more modern development into a craft through normal schools of lace-making. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the notable lace-villages. The differences between the various kinds of laces, needle laces and bobbin laces, are more fully described and their stitches illustrated, in the appendix. The contents are: Introduction; Turnhout; Courtrai; Thourout-Thielt-Wynghene; Grammont; Bruges; Kerxken; Erembodeghem; Opbrakel; Liedekerke; Herzele; Ghent; Zele. The book is profusely illustrated and there is an index.