Show new books reviewed by harry grace good books are like treasured friends THE GOOD EARTH buck by peart 8 ap pp 2 50 wang lang is a chinese whose peasant passion is mother earth tor a moment never does mrs buck the permit reader to wander from this desire tor land man s and more land it transcends his love of gods from family and his to wealthy poorest tiller of the soil landowner it it Is envelops him china and the life in chani through famine and flood lean and full bears and written as though the e people in a far off land neighbors were our cwi harry hansen declares it remains the best novel of the season SEA CHANGE by eleanor mercein mrs kelly ap pp 2 50 A delightfully well written novel with machiavellian situations terminating in logical and lively fashion kits vincent leaves america to forget a broken heart being an impression able youth he tails in love with jas aln a beautiful but ha per force Is engaged to another place this pattern on the frame of a charming new locale known as the island of majorka weave the warp and woof of age old spanish customs and entwine the whole with music romance love and intrigue and we conclude anothy such fascinating book as or the book of bette both mrs kellys former successes y 0 REDHEADED WOMAN by beattia alne brush ap pp 2 00 her type is kown in every town she consorts with the caddie master the local bootlegger uses them as stepping stones lillian andrews red head daughter of the renwood railroad i crossing man Is stenographer to the eon of the richest man in town steals him from his wife and marries him impasse local society shuns her but new york AH in that metropolis of bluff and bombast she finds welcome and her ultimate objective I 1 enjoyed this story as much as I 1 did miss bruchs young man of manhattan THURSDAY APRIL by alberta pier son hannum ap pp 2 50 what a lovely name one just knows she is from the mounting direct descendant ant of british pioneer stock she marries at fifteen at thirty a mother of nine girls ketch me a boy this time demands joe her taciturn hus band her next born are twins an other girl and hall a boy a helpless cripple her very soul seeks one kind look deed or word from joe she gets it when after thirty five years waiting he calls to her through her death tog the longing striving working yearning of thursday april suggests to me a fettered lark HIGHER COMMAND by edlef koep pen ap pp 2 50 although I 1 have had enough ot war books this gripped me as nothing else I 1 have read adolf a student volunteers as a german artilleryman it s not a pretty book it narrates the harsh unvarnished truth ot cruel real ism of fire and flame and the carnage ot savage combat the descriptions of the bombardments aeroplane tank and gas attacks are vivid realities lived bv a boy who went through it all and as he concludes for what its MAN reading men |