Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-06-09 | Page 5 | The Book Parade

rUE EHE BOOK BOOI PARADE A Vork ork for Posterity Juicy Morsel for Censors Censors' H H. L L. Flayed Flayed And And How By Don Howard Howord RECOMMENDED SOLENT John SOLENT John Cowper Powys Simon Schuster 5 One the seasons season's literary achievements this monumental novel two mes jmes holds more than ordinary interest for th the casual reader I I strikingly important tendencies and trends for the student INCONSISTENT VILLAINS VILLAINS-N. N. N A. A Temple 2 Polish gl glish sh but a first rate and well told mystery with little stress laid the murder portion Just right for warm weather reading S Roland LOOSE Roland Houghton Another ry ry English to the the- core but with a well developed and highly lUng liing plot reaching its iu climax in the period of the big strike MOUNTAIN TAVERN TAVERN Liam Liam Harcourt Brace 50 The second volume of short stories by this author to be dished in America They have the immediate effect of tearing loose from ones one's intellectual moorings Ie four r books listed above psychological novel is one re Ce generations cannot neg- neg plumbs the depths of liuI hu- hu I ds something something- in the tho man- man Joyces Joyce's Ulysses and mid ests ests a twentieth century Jr There is a great polity poto po- po lity allty to Wolf Volt Solent as wIng wIng- excerpt a to cross several which he hc did h by In- Inam s am- am 1 pugh successive successive hedges by y thorns stung by net- net sands smelling of the bitter r Ider twigs he lie made his way these these ancient enclosures 0 how ow their lichen-covered lichen exact- exact 11 reproduced almost ol r of the gray sky He lie Hethe lien n ii the middle of one ono of l to crouch down oVert over oyer lot of t shining shining- The Thestel Thester ster stel of of those starry pete pet- pet e dark rk gren grass gave him himMl ce Ml ti hope Xo No scent had themselves but as he heIs hehs helIs' helIs hs lIs' lIs Is forehead Into the ne e grass grus around them the I If lf- lf f the thi earth sucked up I louth and nostrils entered d dr gry r nt nerves of his Ro soul l with iverin restorative poign- poign c Si cs' ss Errand published by i b Morrow 1 Co will g h 1 sledding if It the eagle- eagle ins lans of the lie public morals decide to follow the rc recIn rec- rec cIn c- c In Jn England When this thisbY thisby thisby by Norah C C. James was wase 1 re e in February it was at b by the British ce e working in conjunction o land Yard Tard Officials Je Eric Partridge Elastic l Press the night beH be- be H atlon escorted him to ind nd confiscated all copies t edition Copies oples in book d even een those sent to re re- w ere era re seized and only one lew eW of ot the book appeared n Wait till they hear hearn hearIn In n Boston ow v The American Merci Mer Mer- ef ci watch out Harold and Jersey rr rey ey whoever the they are ded ed the malignant green nd ind its editor are ripe for kIck in the pantaloons d d dand and Elinor have ha pub- pub magazine for the man on onIt ont ont t t It has been duly duh- chris chris- l ln in Street and sent to stands I have a copy gt st t Issue Isue wh which after fires fir hf- es of diligent ent and pene pene- dy d was consigned to th the The editors t m aims aims' of the magazine tain lain terms and very immar The TIle publication r devoted to people ridiculed d by Mr fr and anti his Mercury era and publications same kidney The Save ave read their Mercury I the th Initial Issue of Main 1 Q Street readers of ot the Mercury l will find many a a. a familiar phrase many a familiar method of ot v verbal bombardment and nothing that the thc theman man mart or woman on Main 1 street In Inthis this da day and ago age will wilI care about reading Main Street Street In Jn its lead cad article labeled Why We Wo Are Opposed to disposes disposes- of that Individual in individual individual In- In in the following manner which needs no comment The Mercury 1 was sas a fulfillment a cul dul- Here at last we were in the mecca mcca ot of letters But the years rears passed and har hardly ly a poem poemS published I worthy th to be noticed by bythe bythe S the OI Tho h b best t story such sucha u I a a. thing as all and l a a. picture In our minds of Me on the Boston Common returned to his medicine show r The rhe ho intelligent closed his eyes in horror horror horror hor hor- at the sight of or the mad editor fiddling as his reputation burned to a cinder The Tho follower found the tho Mercury the proud possession of the sophomore He lie discovered it in the homes of the great Unwashed unwashed un un- w washed shed even een on the table of his chorus girl friend The Yer very people people peo peo- pie who had been aroused to self- self consciousness were reading the ver very man who ho excoriated them Certainly Certainly Brann from whom hom Mr 11 l descended would have d despised de dc- such buch an end Certainly Bierce fierce would have squirmed Poe roe would have spat upon the fawning ones who cringed ed be before ore this tills Sav- Sav Morola out o of Baltimore But Mr pro prospered l ered Lo The new high priest of an already alread outworn creed of Not a book I behind him that Is worthy of ot those early promises And embalmed Ina in ina ina a tedious biography by a dull writer a book similar to the tomes issued for executives of the big business when they wish to retire a biography raph that dealt with Mr glittering gUttering ancestors What does docs the person on Main Maia street like to read Certainly none of ot the the- five short stories by Robert RobertV W. W which are arc contained in this single issue certainly none of ot th the poetry from the pen of ot He bert Gerhard Main aln street has graduated from that sort of stuff sturt Then Thea there Is an article by John Scott Douglas Turning Out Businessmen Wholesale Sing Sing Prison From the Inside by bythe bythe bythe the well known and arid prolific Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous What Price Poetry by One Who ho Writes It and others Here Is one of the shorter of ot Mr Brunck- Brunck ens en's verses erses EX EN P PASSANT ASSANT November f fog g- g Cold gray grass Gaunt black trees These must pass Like These are brief A Alt snow or rain And old as grief And old as pain