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Show 'Devil Drums' Carries Plenty of Adventure Devil Drums," by Clements Ripley, Rip-ley, gets about as much excitement between its covera aa tha most exsctlng reader could aek. This novel deal with th adventure adven-ture of a eoldler tn the U. 8. cavalry who went to Siberia during the World ,war with the American army, got paid off there after the armistice and atuck around to aea If he couldn't find eome adventure. He could, and did. with a bang. Bandits, Ban-dits, roving armies of "white" Rus-aiana. Rus-aiana. Bolshevik marauders and Mongolian murderers chase each other across the account of hia wan. derlnga with a dlsxylng speed. Mr. Rlplev haa turned out an ad-venturous ad-venturous tale that "clicka" all tha way through. If you occasionally get tired of wela-hty. serious novel that atudioualy examine the tragedy and frusiratton of human life, tbla book will come to you as a welcome relief re-lief It doern't pretead to be anything any-thing but an adventure yarn: but In Its own claaa it ratee Juat about 10 per cent Brewer and Warren are the publishers. |