Show Brand Brand- Whitlock look I Resumes Favor as asan an Author Brand Whitlock has returned to his his his' old love and the result is a novel that Is distinctly worthwhile J Hardin Son is a story that grips you OU because it is real as life life- I is real a a. atheme theme that stirs you be because because because be- be cause it Is sincere ere as Brand Brand Whitlock Whitlock Whitlock Whit- Whit lock is sincere a book you cannot forget because Its people are living i people not Just names and faces It ItIs Itis Itis is an American story rooted in inthe the soil of Mr rr Whitlocks Whitlock's own Ohio yet It its characters are universal in their expression of human traits which we all know Starting back first shows in in inthe the last century it Paul Hardin th the central character against the background of his home dominated by his father the sternly sternly sternly stern stern- ly Puritanical John Hardin The Theelder elder elcer Hardin is a manufacturer of buggies and one sees him throughout through through- out the book a principal in the fight tight for prohibition It is an In Intensely intensely in- in tensely interesting thing to follow Paul down the years froth from In-I In those youthful days all the way to maturity until his mistakes es and when the virtues vIrtue stand opposed great decision of his Ills life lire faces him About him are the people of the small town each distinct and personal personal per per- Bonal more than one hundred characters thronging the pages of th the Book the various women who play important parts in Paul Hardin's Hardins Har- Har dins din's development their contrasting co colors It is a a. whole j se section Uon of ot American li lIf lift that appealS appeal'S appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears pealS the he great opposing spirits of I the pagan and the Puritan worlds powerfully shown as they can be seen In la ev every ry city and town to and hamlet of the or-the the country D D. Appleton I Co New Kew Y York rk |