A good fat book and grand reading, a good piece of Americana, and a corking family story. A warm and human story of a lovable German couple and their children, of the gradual absorption of the foreign element into the life stream of a Long Island town. leisurely in the telling, but so interesting in the unfolding of the story, in the studies of a changing order, that every word holds the interest. Bracket with The Grass Grows Green in appeal.