Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-02-24 | Page 4 | Bercovici Again Wins Praise for 'Nights Abroad'

Bercovici Again Wins e for Nights Abroad Tells of Travel Adventures in Asia and Europe By FRANK A. A HUNT t is seldom that an author three books as varied a those that Konrad Bercovici has produced of late and yet meets wilh such success lIis latest volume is Nights Abroad and under his magic cities of the old world of Europe and sUll older world of AsIa lInor take on a anew new and surprIsing Ufe That is isone one secret of hIs charm writings are alive and vItal Ills Story of the Gypsies and Alexander A phy were two of the outstanding books of the ear No one but I Berc vIci could have written them NEVER NEVER- SEEKS MATERIAL I have never gone out In search r of material says the author In the Introduction to his latest Somehow things worthy of have come my way while I was traveling for other purposes or no at all It is when tourists are asleep and the natives are no longer on exhibition tion to Impress their vIsitors that Bercovici prowls about all the unexpected meetings danger and baroque happenings occur It is in 1 at the Thieves Thieves' market where all the things stolen durIng the past thirty six hours are placed on exhibition for sale that he meets a characteristic adventure After a certaIn period no owner c n reclaim stolen articles but If he sees sees' them in the market he can always buy them back back-at a price in advance ad- ad vance of what anyone else might have to pay AGAINST TRADITION Bercovici's has assured as- as him however that lives and ro er y e held at h There a tra g must be stolen from tors Then misses his watch His companion 3 Spaniard declares that this sImply cannot be lt Is against tradition Then there Is little blue blue- eyed lady wh had talked so passionately pas pas- about tortures and torture chambers in Venice dragging Ber- Ber from one moldY to another a pigeon In the public square and the little lady promptly faints Bercovici has the key to Paris It is where this of the world the most happy Drinking the soup at the light of au T au d. d heard an unceasing rumbling or hIgh wheeled two trucks and tho heavy slow throb of horses as H the artillery of an army were march march- i over cobblestones Calls and greetings snatches of songs brayIng bray bray- Ing of donkeys and neighing of horses rumbling camo and nearer the market trucks to the Hallo from the farms and gardens belting forty around paris It Is in Toledo that meets with one of the several adventures ad- ad ventures of this bool The Involves a beautiful ful woman in black leaning on the parapet of the brIdge an aged gypsy hag a mysterious of the adventures about women beautiful and exotic creatures which although they are not moths are paradoxIcally to be found at night Thero is whimsIcality to all these Interpolations a tolerant sense of mingled pity and humor a finc of bearIng E. E H. H has dorte wen in his black and white The Century Co