Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-30 | Page 4 | Survey Selects Ten Best Books of Season

Survey Selects Ten Tell Best Books of Season Art Y Young bung Writes Winner in On My Way Brings Up Rear With- With The V World arId Do Does s Move By NEA BOOK SURVEY Annual customs being what they are the survey herewith presents its selection of the tho ten best books of 1928 American fiction William fiction William McFee's Mc- Mc Ic- Ic I Fees Fee's Pilgrims ms ot of Adversity Ju JuHa Juha Julia Ju- Ju Ha lia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary Robert Nathans Nathan's The Bishops Bishop's Wife Susan Glaspell's Brook Evans Chapmans Chapman's The Happy Mountain T. T S. S Stribling's Bright ht Metal Elinor Wylies Wylie's Mr Mi 1 Hodge hedge and Mr 11 Hazard Edith Whartons Wharton's The Children Ludwig Lewisohn's The Island Within Morley Callaghan's Strange Fugi Jugi tive Uve Imported fiction Z w e i s Is-'s gs g's Strange Case of Sergeant Grischa Grischa Grischa Gris- Gris cha Fourniers Fournier's The Tho Wanderer Bedel's Jerome or the Latitude of Lov Love I 1 Madox lords ord's A VA Little Less Than Gods Sarah 1 Millins Millin's I Ins In's The Coming Coining of or the Lord Lord- Huxley's Point Counter Point Galsworthy's Swan van Song Song- BambI Julian Greens Green's The Closed Gate Gale INTERESTING EXPERIENCES I And with that off our mind we can turn to the fascinating fascInating- experiences experiences experiences of two very different Ameri Amen cans The first is Art Young who has recorded his rich ripe and mellow menow o C j x p e dences in inOn inOn inOn On My Jy Way Yay Liveright Lh t And Andi A nd rt hf i It we place lace this a ahead of Booth jT j T a r rk kin ing g- g tons ton's f The World Does 4 Move r ve its it's because be be- because e- e burn cause we wo lJ with envy at the j f fun Art Young I must have haye had Were We're not sure ure how large a perc percentage percentage per per- c e n tag e of the American population population population lation Is acquaint acquaint- name name of ot V- V P Art Young Young- Well hes he's a cartoonist Young who has stayed like his last name young Hes He's a n fellow who has fought a I couple of generations g of intolerance and been the so-called so underdogs underdog's best artistic friend has lived wisely sanely and well In his volume he Has nag turned more to a scrap book than to an autobiographical record Its It's a pleasant and vastly Interesting interesting interesting Inter inter- esting podge hodge-podge of the pranks of Greenwich Village artists of yesteryear yesteryear yes yes- a vast assortment of anecdotes anecdotes anecdotes dotes about everything imaginable from arrests for affronting affronting- yesterdays yesterday's yester yester- days day's codes of behavior to adventures adventures tures tunes among the worlds world's notables And it is filled with some of his best sketches Both writing writing- and drawing drawIng- are intensely human and with a type of humor all too rare inthis inthis in inthis this land land land-a a satiric ironic and n na native native na- na tive humor GOES BACK TO DAYS WHEN in his book takes us back to the da days s when h he arrived in Manhattan from his Indiana homestead filled with the urge to conquer the city C- C He lie was tossed almost Immediately Immediately immediately Immedi Immedi- I in into n t to o a world of or newspapers newspapers v pers pers and maga maga- In t thinking hi P back to the days when he grows rows S wistfully cent The vord of thirty years ago was to be t sure a merry world but New Xe Y York or did not frighten one with its Us size its traffic tralle and all the rest So he tells teUs of ot the cafes and the au authors authors nu- nu thors whose names have become fa famous fa- fa inous and the meeting places and the struggles and the modes mode and I I manners Its It's a very pleasant picture pic- pic lure ture of what they are pleased to call those good old da days s LEAGUE GETS LITERARY The Tho new Book league latest of the book selection organizations is seemingly Intent upon acQuainting the g general reading public with I literature that really is literature Upon its first appearance in the dress of an average monthly magaI magazine magazine maga maga- zine zin the book league presented I Matthew Josephson's Zola quite the best biography to be turned out outlast outlast outlast last year ear by an and one on which the other selection boards seem to have slipped up This Tills month they do a real literary lit literary literary lit lit- service by getting g out a Thomas Hardy edition In which appear appeal hitherto poems of I the master elsewhere published un sin un I den del the title of Winter Words