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Show Storm Pots of Literary Realm Likely to Boil Sinclair Lewis' New Book, Analyzing; Modem Woman. Expected to Loot Discussion By RAYMOND f BOWl.tT (Associated Press staff Writer) NEW YORK. Jan. 1 Furious bubblea should be foaming from the literary pot by nightfall Sinclair Lewis' new book la out today. Out In a large way, too. It la published pub-lished simultaneously In 16 countries and IS languages. Including the Polish. Such extensive and Instantaneous publication dwells not In the memory nf even the oldest publisher's rep- cry by Ann that she, too, la out of priaon, "the prison of ambition, the prison of deslra lor praise, the priaon of myself " Lewis, always burning with editorial editori-al seal, has oplnione on such subjects aa crime, punishment and whether a woman haa a runt not to have an unwanted baby. He expresses them In this book. Having written "Ann Virkers." his first novel since he won the Nobel price for literature, Lewis haa gone into hibernation In Austria. Despite reports that he Is III, his American pubhshera.' Doubleday, Doran, declare de-clare ha la "actually feeling better than he ever did in his life." Reviewing the novel, Lewis Gannett Gan-nett In the New York Herald-Tribune, says: "Sinclair Lewis has dona It agsln. "Ann Vlckers." . . belongs In the front rank, with "Main Street." "Babbitt" "Bab-bitt" and "Arrowsmllh." It will shock some people, stir more, bore a few (I pity them, with Ice In their veins); but they will all read it, highbrow and lowbrow alike, and talk about it, with the hot peasion which only Sinclair Lewis, among the novelists ot today, can arouse. Wells once had that po er; Dickens had It; who else?" resenutlve. ' "Ann Virkers" Is what he calls It thia red-headed author who put the word Babbitt into the mouths of millions. mil-lions. It bares the heart and mind of a modern woman. It Ukes her through school, suffrage work during the first Wilson administration, admin-istration, aettlement house labors, study of prison conditions, marriage to a aocial worker who turned out to be "a perpetual course of. bedtime stories"; and a love affair with a crooked Judge. When the Judge ia pardoned from Sing Sing, the book ends aoon with a |