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TEARS ARE FOR THE LIVING, by Margaret Banister (Houghton Mifflin). This novel covers the hundred years from Lee’s surrender to the present time. The setting should prove of special Interest to the people of Rappahannock; for, though the action takes place a little farther south in Virginia, the countryside so resembles this county that one feels the story takes place here. The dogwoods, wild, strawberries, huckleberries, trailing arbutus and honeysuckle-covered rail fences make one feel right at home. The casual mention of passing through Culpeper or Warrenton--surely we're in Rappahannock. The tournaments might well have been those of a generation ago held in the First Washington of Them All. To cap the climax, one of the characters says — as has many a native of this county, * 'I’d like to travel and see the world, but never to live out of the sight of the Blue Ridge Mountains.’ ” Many scenes from her life flash through Janie Meade Calhoun Darby's mind on her hundredth birthday: her challenge to a Yankee soldier, “ ‘Don’t you dare take my pony!”’. . . her offer of water to the soldiers of Lee’s army and the remark one of them made to her mother, who spoke of her son killed in Petersburg: * ‘Don't weep for him, ma’am,’ " he said. * 'Tears
Israel is turning ancient ruins into living towns. National Geographic says. The tenth city’ iff 40 centuries' is rising at Arad, and a cooperative farm village adjoins the ruins of En-gedi on the Dead Sea.
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