Show Babe Evanson Provides Pleasant Surprises There are few lew experiences so satisfying to the inveterate reader as picking up an novel no byan by Iy byan an nn unknown fictionist and finding it a thorough delight Such was Babe Evanson by bJ Catherine Brod Brody Either the publicity publicity publicity pub pub- bureau of ot the Ule Century com company coal coni- pany tall failed d to realize the volumes volume's merits merit or neglected to do Its duty for Cor Babe Evanson 10 deserves es a high rank on tho the seasons season's book list Hat and tho the publishers publisher's advance announcemEnts announcements announce announce- ments had not indicated Its power and beauty In Bad Dad Girl Vina lna Del Delmar mar presented presented pre pro an inarticulate heroine who somehow seemed to capture the popular imagination Miss Brody Drody has jas gone Jone much much deeper lle r Into character than did Ms Miss Delmar For lor although Babe abe I vanson Innon also aiso ia is of New Yorks York's great at lower middIe middle mid mid- dIe dle class nn and particularly of ot a girl who Is gro groping ing always vos toward a scarcely conceived goal s Miss Mian Brody Drody shows us why she should be what shoe she J Is and wh why she should act allsho as all she sho does dots If If ever er a n. stenographers stenographer's thoughts and habits were wera put between n cover coven It t is In 10 this fine novel no And Amid Miss lIls Brody lane has been sonorous generous nerous enough not to confine confino her hEt skill kill to lon tion of hoer her central character 1 Many 01 others bels Including Mrs I Evanson Bert Jert the sell conscious ron clouR reducer dueer and gentle art are admirably drown dmn |