Show V o A. A I Author Refrains From Debunking Subject Columbus Gets His Dues in First Rate First Rate Book Scholarly Writing Marks Biography of Discoverer New Nc Dahlberg Novel Depressing Depress ing But Powerful Powerful Powerful Pow Pow- erful Jacob Wassermann long famous fatuous as a a. novelistS novelist turns biographer this Columbus Don spring and gives I us liS Quixote of o tho tim Seas and if Ie you rou ou have ha any taste for real scholarly biographical writing as opposed d to tho facile shallow stuff that mal makes es b best beNt st sellers rs nowadays you ought to togo togo toso go so for Ol this in a big wa way The Time subtitle of oC the time book bool Gh gives s the key hey Ie Wr s sees aces Columbus as a n Don LIon Quixote a a knight errant following a gleam that le led him be beyond beyond be- be yond tho lie bounds of ot hum knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge across an unknown sea to a fabulous new land In tho the west Ho lIo strips legends from rom him him but but finds him still a legendary figure fabulous fabulous lous bus and a appealing S' S 1 fortunately is 18 both botha a a. scholar cholar and a poet Joet Most Moat current biographers are neither That is WI wh why biography of or Columbus stands out among amons ordinary nary miary biographies blo ral hl's like like like-In In the old phrase phrase phrase-a a corn cub In the tho fog Put Columbus on your our preferred pre erred list LittI Brown Co S Turning from rom the time constructive e doIngs doings do do- ings InS's o of Columbus to Bottom Dogs Do 1 by Ei Emest nest Dahlberg Is like stepping out of oe tho tIme spring Il sunlight into a adank adank adank dank must musty and CI very smelly cellar hut but after all that thal doesn't necessarily II ily 11 mean that thal Bottom Dogs Dobs Isn't a good hood hook book It Il simply lies at al the time theother other extreme of literature Bottom Dogs VOs Is a a. first Jr t no no el ci 1 dealing with time the nations nation's disinherited disinherited disimi- disimi folk the time hopeless do wells who aro submerged In the lowest stratum o of society and will never ne b by an any of luck get set all any higher It H. is ag ns ul unpleasant as a dose doo of castor stOl oil I 1 blIe it itis is a truo true picture Tho The central al figure you ou you cant can't call him tho time starts hero starts as the son sono ot of o a woman barber In iii Kansas City lid HJ migrates to a eland Cleveland orphan asylum asylum aim an even evon more moro terrible in institution in- in than tI tho tia I ono one where Oliver Oli Twist was confined then confined d then ho lie hN heads 8 west ivest and eventually e lands hinds in a aLos aLos Los Angeles Y 1 Y M. M C. C A. A A. drifting drifting without hope and amlI without desire from one ormo city to another from one omme Job iou to another one of time the sorriest figures I ever er cr to appear In tho timo pages of a Ct book But this cha chap has huts reality at that You dont don't feel that you OU aro reading about a character In fiction Bottom Bottom Bot tom Loin Dogs gets ets its power powel from time the fact that thal tho time miserable people lolle who appear II In iii It hive ll an arid and breathe You accept them heat TIme The scenes scene that Mr lr Dahlberg shows you ou are aro unbearably sordid and depressing depressing but pres II bul but you Ou dont don't find yourself doubting doubting- them Bottom Do Dogs s is published b by Simon Schuster I |