Books: Plato on Tobacco Road

SHADOWS MOVE AMONG THEM (334 pp.)—Edgar Mittelhölzer—Lippincott($3).

Mabel Harmston differed from other young women in that she was "freckled from throat to navel." Her freckles ranged from "pinpoint dots" to "paw prints," and her kid brother Berton and her younger sister Olivia, who often studied Mabel in the raw, believed that her markings constituted a magic code map.

Such childish notions brought a smile to the lips of the children's father, the Rev. Gerald Harmston, of the Brethren of Christ the Man, as he strolled half-naked down the corridor of his British Guiana...

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