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Tlme Out of Mind" lavishes u-3 on the Maine coast. i

by other writers come to one reads Rachel Field's story of the decline of most picturesqUfl industry,

Out of Mind" (MacMill an) the same despairing realizachange that marked Isabel 'Shipmate s" and Mary Ellen ary Peters." In It, too Is a who must have stepped 1,,ct r gnt of the pages of Dickens' Blea:- 1 ouse," !or Major Fortune is exactJ,· ke the hard-hea rted father of the f st part of the earlier novelt's b O • But the aim of the author Im 1 to that of Robert P. Trisfin, who In his. last novel. radlse," told of a beautiful the effect upon him of Its g charm. It Is her diurnal on· of the Maine coast, re•f season, that gives "Time ind" its continued flush of

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lite to Fortune's Fo!,ly at the ag of Jl and straightw ay fell in love with ti.: "strange brightnes s" of the gulls' 1:iei.sts and wings, the smell of wild srawbr•rl es in late June, the I'd e.s of geese flying South, the gleam If Wa e Back Light, the restleu t,?!Ut.y of the sea-in short, Mwie

o y. one of many luxurious ho es b lilt by sea captains, was owned Y t Major. A hard man was Major ?or• ne in his dealings with men an w1.1.nen, but in matters pertaining o<> sailing ships he wa.~ senhnenta.i_ Alt.hough the age of steam had loiJ .~Ince dawned and the Atlant\c ·,ablP. long been laid, he still perslste< In facing toward the 1850s, he age f · 1e great clippers, the great hil ler· H daughter, Rlssa, he uner t 00 . but his son, Nat, he did not. e J:u d and fast rule was that the wi ~:orthy of a man's best eftor,s piano-pla ying flt only for women. Locking up the piano, however dli not ke,e p tunes from running m th,: boy's head. Sending him of a >nly served to make greater ~ -- ·,.••. • h wben.. be playeEi a -uea:· before a hushed audience city. .ances forced Kate to re-big house while Nat 1eights of success and ,..,, More ·and mor,e tourvisiting Maine and Kate's CP, ·:tW gold in clams, homeoduce· and the great pines. smr n came and destroyed 01 beauty. Cheaply concottages appeared on the , • s. The Major shut himFC'lf up In l .s house and died there in despair. When Nat, broken in spirit after a a ill-consid ered marriage, carri~ hom<'. Kate gave up her future and thr!'w ~way her reputatio n in his ~h al!, Spinsterh ood- beckoned, but sh, was cnn tent. ' " rtme 0•1t Of Mind" is stereotyp1ed in mechanic s. So far as plo t !l'OCS, 1e story has been written . e al hm~s before. The author overun rn s the character s of Rissa and thi e 1or and leaves several questlo ns nnn•;wered. But regardless of 1 a · In technique and occasiona l 1 trice :ess. "rime Out Of Mind" ranks high among the books written about , ine. The swell of a real sea and the sturdines s of a race are In Its page~, l ··: 1ging It to life.

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