Forgotten Towns

THE ROMANCE OF FORGOTTEN TOWNS --John T. Paris--Harper ($6.00). What do you know about the birth and death of Jamestown, Va.; of Pemaquid, Me.; of the sodhouse towns of Kansas, nothing of which remains but an occasional pile of turf on the prairie? What do you know of all the other hundreds of towns and villages that sprang up in the early days of our country, flourished and perished, leaving here and there a battered church tower, a deserted farmhouse, a buried pavement--and nothing else? Or of Robert Owen's communistic town in Indiana, or Prince Gallitzin's colony in the Pennsylvania mountains, or the California gold rush towns? If you are interested in the romantic history of the colonization, and growth of North America, Mr. Paris is an eloquent guide along its byways. If you are not interested, this is at least an attractively illustrated volume for the living-room table.