Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-14 | Page 4 | Musical Rhythm of Style is Pleasing Feature of Book

4 Mu Musical doal Rhythm of Style Is P Pleasing easing Feature e of Book Pit First Offering of Henry Bellaman Bellaman Bella- Bella man Wins Vins Critics Critics' Praise By VIRGINIA STEWART LOVE Written for the United Press s 's Daughter by Henr Henry Bellaman is a strikingly strikingly- mature gravely written written first first novel no of or Unpretentious unpretentious unpretentious un un- pretentious realism I If abounds s in finely wrought chara characterizations and excels in creating a perfect at atmospheric at- at background ground for the careful careful careful care care- ful unfolding of its rich plot There are no literary heroics no awkward awkward awkward awk awk- ward gestures toward brilliance To the gra gray monotony of or endless Missouri farm tarm lands comes conies Sule Irack IracI of Basque extraction to live In a community of or Pennsylvania Dutch farmers people farmers people who never rest have ha no songs to but know only work from earliest mornIng morning mornIng morn morn- morn morn- Ing until sunset Here Sule finds rInds life and love loe and their ensuing pain and Joy Amid the eternal i d drabness of landscape and of oC people the colorful soul sou of or Sule wistfully and naively awakens to feel the hungering need of or a philosophy to sustain and strengthen strength strength- en her Her Her- development subsequent subsequent subsequent quent reaction react and nd final surrender to th the inevitable Is is absorbingly and skillfully narrated There is feature in the novel The two characters who vho so strongly govern goern and sway the lives of or the others and who are greatly responsible for maintaining the at atmosphere at- at are both dead d dying early eally In the book But Paul 1 Irack rack with his songs and vagabond philosophy philosophy philosophy phil phil- continues to shape his daughters daughter's destiny and Harr Harry Is never free from the silently menacing menacing ing figure of oC his father years year ear after atter Pa Grumbine's Grumbine death The author is a musician and this is somehow felt when reading hi his singularly rhythmic descriptions lions which have a pulsating beat and and smooth flow of or words ten e fount among writers writer's who ha hae hale e a at t feeling and understanding of ot m sic H Harcourt Brae Brace Co Hew ew York