Reaching for the Stars

Reaching For The Stars, by Nora Wain. Little, Brown, and Com­pany, Boston. This is not a novel, as the title would perhaps lead you into sur­mising. It is more like a travel­ogue than a novel, but it isnt ex­actly that either. The authors husband went to Germany in 1934 to study music and she accompan­ied him to make a home for him there for four years. In the mean­time she visited for days and some­times weeks at a time with differ­ent sorts of people in order to learn to know the German...