Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-11 | Page 4 | Ivin Cobb Arouses Thirst with Novel on 'Old and New' Drinking

1 1 r Irvin Cobb bb Arouses Thirst pill i With 1 ti Wit N Novel ove I on Old an and a New N ew Drinking D 1 Purported Autobiography Q Be Best l Seller Seler Liveright T Tempts Boston Boston Ii By PAUL W. W w. w WHITE I 1 NEW NW YOP YORK Aug ug 10 UP UP- UP I When hen a few days agog ago IrvIn S. S Cobb accepted I th the chairmanship of of or ofa a writers writers' committee opposed opposed to o the time prohibition amendment h he lie must must have done done so with wili i tile tho o conviction that hat he already had de dealt 1 a literary blow t to the time Saloon Anil-Saloon Saloon Ant Anti e league UC sym sym- rs Red L kl cr published b by Cosmopolitan Cos Cos' Cos is advertised 1 as Ha ua novel of ot ol old and new Kentucky But de despie despite do- do spite th tho fact that writer blurb spie fact a a wrier blurb declares the tho book Is not a tract for tor tor or against prohibition it lt is I also a a novel nO of ot old and new drinking Tho Time man whose alcoholic consumption con con- began egan in the pre era era will wi put down Co Cobbs Cobb's bs b's story stor with witla witha a to sense of r o st st. And since nothing will 1 8 satisfy th that t thirst thirst bu bua but buta ut uta a a glass glas of or old and very ery er likely unobtainable un un- una obtainable Bourbon we warn prospective prospective pros proS- readers of potential fort Cobb known foremost a as a humorist hu hu- hu- hu strikes an an authentic tb note nota o ot of tragedy in fn his atud studY stud of ot old Colone Bird one of ot tho 1116 l last of ot tho the Bourbon Bour- Bour bon boa makers Kentucky itU has its Us fair tal women and its fast horses but but its is fine line whisky I is gone gone Cobb I l has aH authored a a notable obituary r IS IS' IT AUTHENTIC Distrust of pf autobiographies by 1 young youns wom women n a a sentiment engen engendered engendered dered b by a. a certain salt water vater e epic Jc Is Is by no means abated with t the te e reading reding of Wife Ex authored anonymously ly and rd published by Cape Cana Smiths Smith Still SUI it I would not not be 9 surprising to find tho the book on J st seller lists i The The- publishers publishers' say ay of Ex Wife Ex Wife Ex N U that it i Is neither fiction nor autobiography iota auto at biography that it It Is not Story ry I is or of one on womans woman's l lifO but of ot tho hun thO-hun- I Hun un- un dr dred ds hot the author h hia has surveyed In New V York Cl City that the tu etIn et book bool assumes U the thC e tn Importuned of ot a a noto to manners tho the manners and morals of or toda today Al' Al All of t which strikes s this til as twaddle addle Fr For If I at story as aa a Iea Ie a a divorcee a. a pr promiscuous business b woman a a mistress itress' itress and amid finally a n a wife aguin afi Is tho truthful account c of of one ono woman's womans career then tiet it U It Is di diverting through Its It v very ry Ingenuous Ingenuous' Ingenuousness a a ness and its Is disarming candor I But j i if Ie Patricia Is a composite U the book bool becomes very velY inferior fiction M MEAT EAr FOR BOSTON r Ex Wife to Ito continue is an n e cf- cf fort at sn smartness U it 1 would have suc succeeded somewhat better better- had hid not not v i reading of ot It It been pr preceded preceded- ceded bv by f J reading of ot Am American Colony by br i Charles Brackett The book is pub pub- 1 by Horace It t may be argued without question f Queston that American nyo Colony i. i mf- mf cerns a a group or of Americans an s st on t tl the tho k French Riviera Is a a thoroughly in inconsequential In- In 2 consequential novel nove But there is M Mno n no den denying its swiftness and its V t Ilance Comparison of oC Bracket Brackett Bracket t it to Hem Hemingway is almost aln Inevitable ne and it it ma may b be said sald that Bt style t nt Jf Is 13 tho time more polished but less grip j. j pin ping Not ot the least interesting thins thIng about American Colony win be 1 its i reception In tho the city o of ot Bost BostOn ft t tile the Hub booksellers are pern permitted U to dispose dispose- of ot It Jt we expect to to s 's sen r Upton Sinclair lr elected mayor and Theodore Dreiser cho chosen en president t of or the board of ot aldermen i More or less personal r t I. I F For r pungent Jara paragraphs 7 o of description wo we e have have seen nothing 1 In V recent months to compare with wih time tho v verbal portrait o of of Pope Pop P Flus us XI drawn by Robert H. H Davis in Bob ob Davis Abroad Y Norah Torah James James' L James James' Sleeveless s Errand which was wa banned bane In Eng England here land has has' haS gone ne into its Is fifth printing Before re he s sailed s led for EnglaT England 1 to attend the tho international scout J jamboree Dan Beard eard finished tho manuscript of or a a new book Buck BueI ri a 4 v skin Book BoOkfor o K for or Boys Bos an and and M Men BUc n The rh Century on one of or Amer cas ca's oldest magazines es will wi leave tho the month monthly field with wih the August Augst n number num nunI- ber her to return in October as 11 a quarterly t terly r Tills ThIs department is inordinately proud ot of Its Is grand gand average e of ot 85 on Hows Hows Your Bridge by S S. S S S. Lens Len and audit R G. G Rendel Oria 1 On b hand by the way a was a a 1 r r center V The Time publishers of ot Deiser Dreiser's Dreiser An 4 n American Tragedy are ae g getting l out outa a new edition editon in one volume ni s S. S J J. Perleman who dra draws j and writes the wows In Judge s. s has perpetrated a book bookS to tobo be known know a I as Dawn awn Revene Revenge Ho says of or it I. I This is Is' Is no ordinary ordinary- ry c problem novel In its ia pages you will wIl smell tho time RIalto hear the creak o or tho the cordage and chaffer chafter with cea the h stockholders in iii the harbor of apua Papua You wilt will Wf want ant to rc read d the bok book out u f floud loud you ou will 1 want to shout about ut it from front tho tim housetops With every copy goes gocs a 3 free free housetop I New Gissing Book Marketed Son by Gissing was not not a a popular novel novel- no j 1st though during his too too brief j of ot forty six sl years e he lie gained a apo aio po position no not likely to be lIe assailed Maled J In Interest In- In terest crest in his work has revived somewhat somewhat some some- som what of ot late and his son sn A- A C. C Closing Gissing has put together Selections Selee Autobiographical and Imaginative Imaginative native From lom th the Works of ot George Geore Gissing In her most ost admirable mid and understanding introduction to to tho time volume Mrs Virginia Wo Woolf I says of ar Gissing's early novels They Thc owe their peculiar grimaCes grimaCes' to to the fact tact that the peo people le who o suffer suter most are arc capable of ot making their suffering part part of ot a n reasone reasoned view of oC life Tho The thought when hen the tIme feeling has ha gone Their unhappiness represents nt something more lasting than a personal re reverse 1 life verse it I becomes becom part of ot a view of ot j