Show Galaxy of Amazing Personalities in New Boo Boot j t i iThe The Yankee Pasion l' l j Flays Bigotry but I I B MJ WUL is Ibe Itself f a Victim By HELEN GARRITY Samuel has ha contributed another enl enigmatical a and d rather p a. a biological tale of humi huran frailty to cont contemporary fie fico on Re R. R calling his Haunch Haunch Paun i l aug at Jowl which aroused pore more more than thas tha H Us its share of ot comment ommert a more comple artistry and p perhaps sincerity s discernable in The Yankee Pa PaS Ii which Is the significant title of 01 the book I Disguising his liis hi true motive In th tS long iong choppily written supe super super- brilliant briliant harangues of his charac chara chara the author creates a poi ant delineation of th the horrors o 0 oi bigot bigotry and then with wih subtlety he begins a bitter biter In In f. f genious and sustained ata attack k upon the political a activities of the Itoman Ito Ro Ro man Catholic c church Description of the distorted sex reactions of the hero a seeker after religious s truth who becomes what Is called cled fa ia a priest occupies a great greit geat portion porton of the volume His grop gop Ings become Irritating and his ls id je feverish overdrawn rhapsodies maui maud maud- lin Un before he ho has progressed far along his path of n hUmble service however Still StI some compensating artist artst merit Is supplied to the work vork b the startlingly vivid personalities who swagger Whine sneer and shout their way Into the imi tion ton of ot the reader An amazing charlatan a cynical peddler e heroin whose business business' thrives on the race tracks an ascetic journal 1st and a wily wHy bartender rub rb shou ders dens with fastidious clerics wh immaculate condescension is most realistic The portrayal of the thi crooked workings of aided by churchmen to to- to whom th the te shade of a head covering Is more mor Important than the moral Issue at stake is rivaled by his brilliant ex expose expose ex- ex pose of the cheap of societies so so 10 societies who give vent to their lur lurand lurand lurid and absurd intolerance in masked meetings and brutal floggings Th TIC heinous murder of the priest b by a a. group of these stalwart rt defenders of righteousness brings the tie book bk to a powerful and moving climax The view that the 1 last st gr grat t commercial conflict which the entire entre world would have hae been halted haled by a word from the Vatican Is Interesting however faulty genius for pictorial writ ing leads him to construct maze of 01 pictures pi tures and ideas and them with wih uncanny skill ski His gift of coining word and even sentence combinations is i at times ties ing These concoctions lend a p peculiar pe- pe culiar cular charm to his style It I vil be b interesting to observe the public ImbUe reaction to the book Boni Boat f 1 Liveright Li Company Compan ew ew 3 Cit City ew |