Books: Silver Threads

Silver Thrreads

ONLY YESTERDAY—Frederick Lewis Allen—Harper ($3).

Like a fidgety child, the present will not stand still long enough for its parents to get a good likeness of it; too often you have to wait until a generation is dead before you can get a satisfactory look at it. But Author Allen, by a quick contortion, has snapshotted history almost in the flesh. Reading his readable chronicle of the 1920's you may be surprised at the number of events you had almost forgotten, more surprised to see that "the eleven years between the end of the...