Books: Mary's Neckers

MARY'S NECK—Booth Tarkington—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

Every summer, as the best resort from heat and the vapors, the Bullfinches, Allstovers, Timberlakes et al. go to Mary's Neck on the Maine Coast. There they loll on the beaches, collect antiques, sunburns and memories for their coming hibernations in more urban homes.

A woman newspaper correspondent's story of that "quaint old Down East fishing village, full of quaint old interesting characters and quaint old interesting furniture and fashionable summer people," sends the Masseys with their daughters, Enid and Clarissa, to Mary's Neck. Their first mistake is...