Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-13 | Page 7 | The Bread Givers

1 I The Bread Givers 11 By DR FRANK FRAN K CRANE CRAN E. E A new novel has appeared by This new novel Is an event for tor no less an authority than William Lyon Phelps classes it among the three best novel novels of or the season I IOna Ono One does not have to read very far in it to seo sec why Mr r. r Phelps thinks The Bread Givers is great I Its excellence is that it is real It is not about I any theories nor general ideas but about actual facts and their relation to life I The story is a depicting depleting of or the tho struggle of or a n poor Jewish girl gin from surroundings of misery and ad poverty out into the light of ot freedom In a sense I it is a story of all aU of us For we wo are are all engaged in a n struggle to better etter our conditions But this struggle becomes more more apparent and more vivid when it is about those who come to us from th theold the tho old world and are hampered by the traditions and 1 p ideas of other ages The old father of f the tho heroine thinks It is hi his business s to read the Torah and It la is Is the he woman womans I to wait walt on him This is an ar old Idea and andone andone one that It is very hard bard to get out of the consciousness con con- conI I of the race To escape her degrading conditions the heroine heroin leaves her home borne and secures an education for herself This she sho does in the face tace of or great dis- dis advantages Genius has been called the ability for keeping on the the disposition to persist in spite of obstacles Miss has this kind of ot genius herself herselt fo for tor abe has come up out of or the deepest poverty Into c comparative affluence and the story of the heroine of her novel is very largely a autobiographical It is the story ot of the lives of many of those thosa who attempt to escape from old world trammels into the light and liberty lIbert of the new world Those who are engaged in the struggle for progress in Its Us bitterest terms can find truth about their efforts properly delineated In this novel It is not a thriller or a mystery story or any- any of that sort but it is a depiction of ot the tho realities of life by one who has been face to face with them It is a triumph of of realism and one which we predict will 1111 add certainly to the authors author's fame will be remembered as the woman who wanted anted so to write that in the midst of her poverty and deprivation she used the tops lops of boxes and barrels and in her la lack k of 01 knowledge Of the English language she he wrote down what she saw After all good writing is about what we have seen ourselves Copyright t 1925 by byl McClUre Newspaper Syndicate