Show DRUMS AFAR n With Ith IU its unusual setting of or the love hove affairs of an all Oxford man and a Chicago Chi cage cago girl hl in Germany German shifting scenes cenes to England the United States and amI Canada Canada Can Can- ada finally later hater to England again under the tIre stress of or war John Murray Gibbons Gibbons' Drums Afar presents a different lIt dif ferent story stor storto to the tIne reader than the tIre usual Jove 00 tale talc The author of or Hearts and anti Faces that brilliant bit of or fiction writing which proved prO so popular with American readers some time Um back takes tales as his hero Charles Fitzmorris who takes a aI I keen een delight in boxing and md later in rowing which enables the author to toIe Rive I e a a. most stirring description of a R boat race lace There Is something of oC the strength of ot I Kipling in Gibbons Gibbons' description tion lion of ot his heros hero's Initiation into th the wonders of oC ro ln rowing where ho lie says ays Charles began to understand tho joy of or feeling the boat lift hift under n a leg leg- es- es drive c and anI learned the tire knack of ot a and work shoulder wrist play and swing body which at first seemed so 80 difficult Then comes conics the tIre proud moment when hen the he captain of or the boats loats tells him he ho heis hes hoIs is s to have hac a place III In and and then thell the race It is one of ot man many good g descriptive passages In tho lie volume which Is replete with excellent read- read reading In ing ng The touch and go portraits of oC the tine American law in of or the tIne young ounG Englishman are deftly done and are a tribute tributo to the tho a ability bill t. t of ot the author Ml MI In all all this novel no is a safe saCe one ones one Ion on which to put your money in tho lie summer sumner sum- sum ner mer race of fiction or the tine fall fail derby lerby to be 10 nearer the tire date perhaps It is breezy In style and yet et not cheap in ints its ts treatment John treatment John Lane Co New ew York ork |