Time and the Town

A HAPHAZARD, chatty, anecdotal account of the history and topography and personalities of Provincetown, on Cape Cod; pleasantly intimate and at the same time comprehensive. Mrs. Vorse has been in the midst of things down there for thirty-five years, has known everybody, seen and noted everything. She also likes everything, even the excursionists and the artiness. Such enthusiasm and tolerance almost persuade one to become a P-towner, as they say on the Cape. But she has the advantage of most of us in owning an old and lovable house, which is one of her many delights. Her friends include every artist, author, fisherman, and local character, and she possesses the kind of mind that enjoys oddity, controversy, and simplicity. Since in the course of a summer cars from every state in the Union have visited the Cape, her book should find a large audience. For the tourist from the West and South it will offer the pleasures of discovery; for the New Englander, those of recognition. It proves, what those who have known it have long realized, that Provincetown is a unique phenomenon.

R. M. G.