Books: New York Explored

LISTEN FOR A LONESOME DRUM—by Carl Carmer—Farrar & Rinehart ($3).

In Stars Fell on Alabama, Carl Carmer wrote an engaging, popular book about a State that is rich in local color. Now Author Carmer has tried hard to distill the native glamor from a region where the conventional trappings of romance are not nearly so conspicuous as they are in the South. His new field is upper New York State, superficially a prosaic region of farms, sprawling industrial cities, narrow towns.

Author Carmer's approach to Northern New York is suggested by the romantic...