Show Babbitt Straps on oil Snowshoes for Man He-Man Tale w s rIi WW i SH SINCLAIR CLAIR LEWIS Has Lewis Satirized Zane Grey Grey-Curwood Thrillers rs in hi His His Lat Latest t Effort Efort By THE THENEA NEA BOOK SURVEY Sinclair L Lewis Lei has has- wandered off Into the Cur The trail from Main Main street has led him hlin into the woods where here there is s little danger of lurkIng lurking lurking lurk lurk- ing Pulitzer prizes The creator of Babbitt has written writ writ- ten tena a novel set to such a 3 pace a-pace pace that the movie camps were grinding off the final reels even as the presses turned off ff copi copies coiles s of Mantrap l Harcourt Brace And yet with all its surface re resemblances resemblances re- re semblances s to the conventional Q heman heman he heman man tales one one- seems to hear an echoing laughter that comes conies not from the wild laughing hyen hyenas s. s but mayhap from a red headed author with his mouth to his sleeve For although it has baa been visit bl that Lewis after a to the Canadian woods l had ad turned his hand lo to a light adventure tale we get the feeling that Lewis has satirized th the Zana Zane Grey Grey-Curwood type of writing This In In Inno no manner manner detracts from the effectiveness of the book as ag a thriller Perhaps thousands will read It without suspecting suspecting suspecting sus sus- that they have ha gone through anything more than Jhan a good adventure adventure adventure ture story If we are mistaken by any chance and no levity was Intended then this becomes quite the most unforgivable unforgivable unforgivable plot of the season The tale Itself concerns a nerve- nerve ridden N New w Yorker who goes into the woods for fOI his health and there meets up with one Joe Easter a areal areal areal real trader who has wed an manicure ex girl from flom Minnesota Arrival of the the- city guys recalls to the manicure girl the days when and all an her dreams of pseudo gran deur dour p pop p up Alverna the girl gin Is not the nice tale however how how- pure gal of the average ever She trails the city fellow fello Into the woods b but t Joe does not follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol In Instead Instead Instead In- In low with the traditional gun stead h he comes with relief provisions provi provi- Just as as' their situation looks Jook desperate JI Jn the end all go their separate ways ways Wonder Vonder what the movies will do doto doto doto to this There Is much beauty In the painting painting of or background round and It seemed to us a a agre gre great t deal deal of of Irony and burlesque In In the tion |