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Show VV rVv V'V - "'V HV, V V S V- - ?' ' . ' THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, VI ARM r: i i , New Book Gives Engaging Portrait Of L.D.S. Church Leader, PhiIosopher, Humorisi QUIXOTIC TALE if .. - .. Iffmvus MMRIMANi pp. 376, 62.50. r-l- r - ! ErwlioWar'arfat . waa s most newspaper uch a man 14 I eon-qu- i . t Story Magazine Publishes Of Graver . court-marti- " al. helf-dos- en btt--t- er -- rV $1.50. novel is an effort on the part of Maud Diver to present a vision of Northern India, with ita many people, creeds, cultures and problems, during the year 1011. j and to preeent it In such a way.' that the reader will come Inside India and see the country aa it really is In an effort to give a clearer view of the Indian scene, the author has taken for' her principle character Sir Roy Sinclair, whoee'mother waa an Indian of the upper classes and whose father wee a member of the English aristocracy. From his mixed heritage, Sinvision clair derive the double which Mrs Diver considers to be necessary to an understanding of the east he sees India as ths British see it and as the Indians themselves see it and she uses this double nature as a means of presenting both sides of the situation. Although the author makes the discouraging claim of building het story on actual Incidents' views. Ideas and conversation, either that she. herself, has beard or that have been reliably reported to her. the story proves to be readable. It Is a long ways from being a "tour de force, but many interesting In ' Trick Crime . . V"' n ( MR. .ol? ?a, YZ4& t - m i" t1 & 'r . i THE OS'S beauty-qu- eens self-wi- Boys Told How By Famous Pop Warner : back-was- kl-c- HATTERS VILLAGE, by Mfy Cavendish Gore; published by Alfred H. King, Inc., N. Y.: pp. $06; $2.00. MAD SONGS AND SOLACES. Maude Slye. The Stretford on. Mass.. $3.00, 4t PP. of the most amazing things this book la that U 1 written by a woman. It has a vis r and forthrightness not usually found among women writers; even granting that some of them do write ha well as men. that delineation of both men and women may be as accurate and as sympathetic Mary Cavendish Gore here creates a galaxy of amax-In- g characters and now and again derails from the story track and t smartly philosophizes, apropos various familiar quotations. "Mad Hatters Villas Is A small group of shacks spawned from adjacent Hollywood, and the etory concerns Its Inhabitants principally Cosmo, a 'quixotic, lovable Irish gentleman, who has been washed up Into the village somehow and who subsists there meagerly while trying to write a $10,000 novel: Kathleen, the cheap- minded hoyden who reveals strange depths of nsivete snd sincerity: and Elspeth. who bed once been Cremes wife snd who alternately defends and maligns him. whose capncea startle an already sated . group of associates and who retains to the end the same qualities of gentleness to which she was born. Minor characters Include Bar-- " .- who entertains a cold, pas - bare- atonleas-love't'CMmo.'a regula-tio-n newspaper columnist, who, however, finishes on surprising 04E their-charac- prize-winni- . . Al'DE SLYE who has been connected for a. quarter of century with the tTnlveraity of Chicago both in teaching and research in cancer enacts a new role as Poet to Nature,' Lova and Life. The book Is beautifully hound In with gold and fed, gold page tipped. . .Just tha sort of book for such a collection. The poems are native In styl. .Ml that they ripple. along As though the author thought in rhyme. There la no groping for sounds or uncommon phrases, but they swing Frein even waves of thought. quently, women write with a sentiment twist, but tbesa poems are expression ef deep-- : philosophic values, which one could expect from a guardian of life and death. In the section oi love, she merge Into a tender nature And one senses', an unsatisfied love. . --it Is loot love, stfolly expressed. front' Maude Slye le descended John Alden. but sh has most capherself for ably spoken Is, this hobby volume. HELEN SCHULTIIE1S. ' over-figur- - -- -- 7 crescendo: the Dean, a bora busy--' body, sad a host of what the aether terma Anglopbohea. la- the reading the character bacomo-defthe book's Inter- Inltely- aHve-an- d est is right up to tha unexpected quirk of chane which is It climax and aL W. W. - MUSIC, Domford by Yates: Minton Batch and Co, N. Y.; pp. 2S2; $2.00. DELIGHTFULLY artistic touch is given to the old world. Us people and customs, by Dorn-for- d Yates in his latedt novel, a mystery story centering in the mountains of Austria. Yalra Is an English writer of prominence, end author of several popular modern novels, la "Storm Mueic" he writes with great fluency and presents a fairly interesting story, but tha action throughout Is a bit slow. Considering the triteneoa of the plot, however, the author handles it very well. The action hinges on a situation canted by tbe World war. The clt- -. max. though alow In appearing. Is finally reached, when John Spencer, an English traveler, cleeni up tbe mystery of the disappearance - of a vassal of the Countess of Yortck, and uncovers a plot of band of blackguards t rob the A - r Countess. The love element Is not tacking. Throughout the book, a restrained romance between the Countess and John 8pencer is seen. The book with the inevitable marriage . clone of the two lovers. "Storm Muste was serialised -- Hr IHe Women's Home Companion, under the title "Bright With Per- II. Throughout one feels the of the aerial story, with Its minor cllmas in each chapter, and "Ita grand finale" appearing "lata In the last chapter. CLAUDIUS STEVENSON. ' : reaL wife. . :: a Miss Mannin'a character 4s are somewhat strawlike and . tf singlesided. a factor making for a wrl of monontony in tha book, bot toner descriptions of - house and of et rooms and of kitchenware are beaisktlfully done, leaving tbe reader in tfl he peculiar position of being sbfv'e to visualise fully the settings bbfri Dt the actors. It Is In this terf. idcncy that the author ehows pracicsHY alher only feminine weaknes one. though It Is a forgivable conThe book is intelligently ceived. smoothly handled and ; firmally patterned. It makes goo "L though not great, reading. i 4 . Tiffany Thayers j Latest Is Wekrd ARNOLDL by published by Messner, N. Y.; 324 pp.; "T HE rowdy and gleeful! J gar Tiffany Thayer has out a new opus, tlresomcly as ever, with what przq amounts to a new idea, friend of his told him to rea i hail Artzybasheffs "Bftr Point and as a result we which ul "Doctor Arnold!, the character in the Russian'ifj although without any pari reason. Happy Sudennann, a newtipaper reporter In New Y ork and very evidently the embodiment of Thayer's dream ideala. for ho iannka "and wenches ceaselessly, oo scoop, ally turning In a worldwide discovers one day that peor 'le are eck of not dying any more. A ch tho hospitals, mortuaries ai 'd so forth reveals that no matu r how sick or injured anybody, g- tte. b never dies, continuing to I Teat he and register a heart beat. DOCTOR Thayer, $- has collaborated Warner eplendidly, and the famous coach whose "double ' formations; wing-bac- k better known as the Warner System The horrible possibilities a nd the have probably exerted more Inrich gruesomeneas of such i n Idea fluence on football throughout will become instantly appar nt to America than any other single yon. In a short time the w.prld Is system, talks directly to the youth choked with helpless bodle A or of America from the pages of this combatantA who while no't alive book as naturally, aa concisely and in the functioning sense, nr" hot as didactically as if he were on . all yet dead. Governments go do the practice field. becomes chaotic, and so forfcth, beThe sports are treated as ath-- cause man gradually revet 1 to letic pnnraita the year around for savagery aa the years roll oth- - Ueo-- pi neighborhood athletic clubs to be srow older, but they do Lint die. organised according to Pops diA scientist, maddened by t tha rections. Player requirements and need for death in tbe. wor ld atrules; how s man. kill maceration to by tempts to play each training position, "donfs," But the mass goes on movit ig. up strategy, equipment, play diagrams. and down. He boils another lad sportsmanship, formation!, generIn sulphuric held, but aHhougGt alship in short Information makresults, a mass movement ing it an Ideal text for boys, paris still visible in the ticularly three who haven't tbe adSo with burning No ot e dwowna. vantage of trained coaching; Is exand so ths piles of bodies j tossed " pounded. overboard tn midocean evcjntually a e become horrible floating islairds. InCOACH litWARNER regards third habited by foul beings Dr a Arnbaseball, center . In old finally thinks of cannibalism, basketball and tackle and fullback but even that falls to brinr tba In football as tha most dirflcutt boon of death to the world. positions to play. H believes that more good athletes are made than InA thin thread of heated born, aa tha records of hia famterest runs through ths boo k. but ous CarlMe Indian and Stanford why the book la entitled "Doctor football teame would Indirate. , ArnoldL" remains a mystery. Thera The book le worthwhile for any are occasional rather nasty I aughA reader, and should be on tha rebut somehow tbs book never he- quired list for all boys; Froig the - comes quite a ridiculous olr tan- author standpoint. It adequately lastic as youd exp. from rt earing achieves its primary purpose to the" central idea Thors arg even start a boy right in learning the few bits of fairish satire. fundamentals or playing I dont recommend the tow to - - vortte game welL-s- o that ho will you unless-yon- aboolutelr l bar not hair bad habits to unlearn la- - ' nothing better to do. EveM then ter On ' when 'bo graduates tnto wnolt -- b stow- - yrofltyl i tho realm Of college athletics, you to take np crocheting M th MACK CORBETT, .study of Vedle dialect1 T MR. 8TORM by Co-H- - see TAYLOR to - climb Her hero love mountains, but be also lotlvea hia Should hia raeuaUiLa obsession rale his life, or shr juld bis wife? The dilemma Is artificial's in that nearly alt human being - could make the necessary read; pstments to such a situation. Sonofie compromise could be effectebjd that would be workably satisfar Jtory, or so it seem to me. Yet the egtlienun Is rear in the sense that J; ust such circumstances are wreckiif tg marriages right and left, andel always have done. ig The nubbin lies In the teinper of tbe protagonists. Are they 4he sort who could see enough of thqi others point of view to allow com piromlsc, or are they blindly insistent on . , their own way? u, It Is in ths careful and .'ienlirio delineation of her two central characters. faced with this problem, that Miss Mannin nears hi tgb art. . Donald Hildred and Kathlee n Cassidy are alternately sweefly reasonable and madly determined to dominate tbe others deslnjp. Hildred represees his rooted v longing for the heights, and K.Iathleen fights down her poesemlreiwfress. But in the end althougklh the mountains win. it is a traagHc victory. for Donald discovers. on his first climb to great h eighty s, that he is a victim of vert,g- "schwindel" aa tbe mountaineers term it. He tries again and again, and the book ends with his fe failure In death, ' g - . BOOKS IN BRIEF REVIEW or 0 1 wr box-offi- ce HE first of thtae gleaming by R Barrington; DouWeday Doran A Co-- . and ahhiy commercial atorie pp. is called "No. $S,,and waa mad Into the movie. "Night After Night A NNE BOLEYN" presents one with George Rail and In - which. A p( the most fascinating and Mae West made her first movie apcolorful pictures of history that it pearance. The unnecessarily tragic Afread. our to haa been privilege ending was excised, and it was a ter finishing the book regretfully natural scenario which Louis wrote we spent many minutes wishing with both eye on the West Coast Lbeen that aa complete a story -J cashiers. Its the story of a New written about each of Henrys oth York house of past pretensions, now er wives and about tho wives of Just another speakeasy. A young each of tho other kings of Enggirt, who once lived In the place, neighbors land, her continental returns to commit auiclda. and la and all Asiatic kingdoms, whereprevented, for a time, by the upon wed gladly, dedicate our. life owner. whe la rising In the to catching up on them. world, and needs help. L. Adams Beck K, Barrington) ... Thats really aU there Is is It. has a long list of historical novels although it covers $1 pages at so to her credit, among them such much per word. titles as "The Divine Lady. The second story. "The listen"Glorious Apollo and "Exquisite er. Is Just as smoothly written. Just Perdlta.. and with this story ac-of as freshly commercial In Idea and Anne Boleyn adds yet another plot. The basic gag Is; Suppose count of pemcnalitles that have ina prying lonesome old lady stumtrigued' their own generation a: bled' on the secret of a whose fascination holds today. ' or an Insult's worldwide Kreugers market After the picture, "Henry the and pulled tbe manipulations, Eighth. everyones memory has Bromfield string? plants a Mias been sufficiently refreshed on the Jenkins aa a lifelong listener to order of the kings wives and In a other peoples business who overmeasure allowed glympseo of the bears a Kreuger-lik- e fellow repolitical trend of the times and vealing alL 8he sends the wire to the personal characteristics of the Wall street that starts the debacle. monarch whose kingdom they conThe third story. "Fourteen cerned. But the splendors of the Years After, la a tiresome, but court, the amazingly modern bewell-dochronicle of the ettltudes havior and the strangely archaic f four people. ruined by the Werld customs will bo a constant revelawar as they appeared In. 421. It's tion. a hackneyed idea, of course. The last story, "Mias Mehaffy," poem sand songs Is the fantastic tale of a by Anne, who waa educatIowa friend, and is nothed In the French court, her brothing but frosting. er George and her friends are delightful Aside from the historical facta of the case, the theme deWife Vs. Mountains votes Itself to the realization of Annes ambitions. That they would . Is Book's Problem ll sweep her beyond her own i neither she. nor her brother MEN ARE UNWISE, by Ethel George end Thomas Wyatt, who Mannin. loved her most, could Published possibly by Alfred A. foresee. The inevltableneas of her Knopf; New York. 2.50; 310 pp. destruction Is forecast throughout the entire book, but not the indl- - , MISS MANNIN involves the in her latest novel vldtials who brought it about. Dein a dilemma at once artificial and cidedly the book le worth reeding. You will carry with you vivid pictures of beauty and power and the crumbling of both. Thera is a brief preface which of a summary to ' gives enough whet tbe most lanquid interest. "Henry the Eighth, to six wives he was wedded, One died, one survived, two di"POP WARNERS BOOK FOR vorced. two beheaded. BOYS. By Glenn 8, "Pop" War-- E. Barrington tells tbe roman-ti- c ner. in collaboration with Frank J. Taylor; Robert McBride A Co., history of the most beautiful N. Y.; pp. 215; 2. and vivid of them all. And not only has she portrayed Anne her of letters self, shrewd, lovely, ambitious, OUT of the thousands generous, disillusioned, resolved to written by boys capitalize her beauty - for her own,, to "Pop Warner, nationally-know- n ends, but all tbe Boleyns of Haver football coach, came the idea of Castle; Mary, despised, not bea book for boys who like to play cause she had been the 's misor baseball, ' football, basketball tress. but most heartily so betrack and field. cause she bad made so little out Tho Idea, broached by Frank J. of it: George Annes brother and Taylor, bore fruit, and the book chief confidant whose wife countIs now ready for publication a ed so little compared with any text that may well serve as a woman of his own family. This is band-boo- k for who young boys the story of ' Anne when what need the authoritative guidance of was a woman's virtne one way man with 4$ years experience tn a in the greet game of coaching and training boys to kings and kingdoms- crystallize their ambitions in the WINIFRED WILLEY. field of sports. ' It. f- ITH his many literary achievements and successes, little comment is needed ef Steph-a en Leacocks ability to write popular hook about one of America's most outstanding characters, Abraham Lincoln. Tho author new victory, in that he achieves fresh and little brings to light known material dn a rivld. way; to bo congratulated because he Is he see what Lincoln accomplished as the chief point of interest not him domestic difflcultloo-rno- r does be try to analyze too deeply this prophetic nature. - . Those who. Uved cloeest to Lincoln during his life time could not fathom the lonely man and how much more difficult In retrospect It Is for any writer to calculate what thoughts raced over the screen of hia mind.' Bnt"Leaeoek huhat a deep understanding ofreadman nature and with careful ing of authentic biographers such as Billy Herndon, who was the buslne; partner of Lincoln, he comes to a fair and honest conclusion. The book opens with a panoramic view of the birth of slavery and the ensuing conflict it caused. This is followed by a short picture of the early life and experiences of Lincoln which esuses ths render to realize what a tremendous task' Lincoln faced. According to the author. He (Lincoln)' attractc! people everywhere, especially men. :He seemed to be that paradoxical thing, an honest lawyer.- Lincoln was dubbed an Infidel view by the stern and narrow point of his day, yet Leacock h builds up a against this' thought as he shows what a deeply spiritual man was this great president who neither sat In a pew at church, nor followed man made creeds or dogmas, but who read the Bible and "walked with God in his disturbed hours of great Indecision- in John Hay's letters a month after the Gettysburg address. wc see the formerly ridiculed and unprepared man devel-o- n into a great and wise genius This fair and splendidly written btographv is a real contribution. HELEN 8CHULTHEIS. The result is an epUf which ri- vals In imagination tho Wizard ef Ox. for tho religion of Tibet with ita naive brief In voluntary reincarnation, demons; gods that are sub-- , Ject to the same natural laws as .other beings, black magic and the eternal conflict of the religion with the adversary., leaves nothing im- -' possible for lt characters to per form. Hence tbe book, which is clearly and simply written has Its appeal to children and lovers of fairy tales. But it is not a fairy story it is the unwritten Bible of the Tibetans. And since tho Buddhism from which tho beliefs sprang are so closely connected with the lands which Judaism' and peoples-froand later Christalnity arose. It exthe of plains many practices, superstitions and ceremonies which haunted the early Christian follow-or- a and hence has an immediate appeal for those Interested In comparative religion, end the origin of human beliefs. Also, because it sprang from the Buddha, It is rich In philosophy and throws light on many of the teachings of the orient, giving It a charm for the historian and philosopher. Tbe book although a straight narrative gives all the philosophy And religious beliefs of these strange people. It Is easy to read.: instructive, and thrilling from the beginning to end. FRANK WINN. w do ANNE BOLEYN -- THE FREE8 "LINCOLN SLAVES" by Stephen Leacock, Great Occasions Series, G. P. Putnam's Sons. S. Y.; 171 pp.; ti se. o wyr short stories. This must he wbat the old ones used to call Uie work of Mammon.". Either that, or ole debbil Hollywood hasiirept up MJLou iis and when thrown him a fish. Why, when be is comparatively well-to-- he is through' with his period of suffering for his art, whenwi he i famous, nearing bis maturity, ready for his opus magnum, why ("should n othor of Bromfield evident integrity and character rerOrt to ng as this? such There must be something deadening, something awfully stultifying about getting an established reputation as an author adn our day. Immediately you think of Cosmopolitan magazine, and rig' bt you are. Our good authors go to Cosmopolitan when they die, full inf the sweet conviction that no matter what they write from now on, they will be paid so much per word for it. J gig-oi- o. Youngden, authority on the religion of the land has gathered the traditions of tho great character and presented them In a unified story form such as tho Illiad did for tho myths of Greece.-o j ITH his. own glittering polish, Louis Bromfield, 1926 fpulilzer Prize winner, author of "Early Autumn," The Cretan Bay Tree, The Farm," and other atorie of high and resotaunding uierit, now presents a new volume containing four completely1 empty E. Barrington Is Discussed Leacock Gives New Slant on Lincoln ' Sleuth, t -- . ,, I "PHIS d tripe-writi- teresting Incident and scenes are reported smoothly and pleasantly, with the facile surface details and touches that are so characteristic fiction being of the present-da- y written by women. As an analysis of Indias social sufficient lacks book problems-the depth and substance to be taken seriously, nor doe. the author give evidence sufficient orientation in the realm of Ideas eastern or western, for her exposition of Indian thought to be noteworthv. The booka chief value would seem to be the pleasant, easy tour It offers of the colorful India of today. Although Tho Singer Passes la complete in itself. It Is a sequel to two previous novels on India by Mrs. Diver. ANGUS S. CANNON. THE SINGER PASSES, by Maud Diver; Dodd. Mead and Company. New York; pp 574; price n, 4 ! j. j.... er Engaging Story Told Of Hero Legendary aidTibetan of tho native lama -- 3 : Published HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW, by IdJuis Bromfield. by Harper and Brothers, N. Y. 310 pp. 62.50. ' Kimball, to which e chapter la devoted. give an excellent picture of ths esteem tn which be in held by hia many friends end associates. The concluding half of the book Is devoted to the. Tabernacle talks of Elder Kimball, containing the choicest of bis wit and humor, and establishing the strong character of the man. By gU means read u this book. It will wot dieappohrt-yoin the least. HENRY SMITH. Of special' Interest Is the chapter dealing with his missionary activities la the Southern States. These experience, described tn the rare wit of the Church official, make lively and valuable reading. Ths Church member and even the cannot help being Im; pressed with the strong, deathless of this Individual to the faith, ideals of hia Church. In the chapter entitled "J. Golden Kimball, at d "By BID OLSON" El-d- er Maud Diver Writes 'Smnd Novel of Life in India ed ...... biosrapby. of the First Council of Seventy, long a prominent figure In the missionary service of the Church. Clauds Richards. Its author, has, made a compilation of the wit, humor, devotion to service end strong faith of Elder Kimball that is a valuable addition to the literature of the Church. The choicest of this sayings, tho most faith promoting of his experiences, hie lively comments on religion and Its placs in nt Hc&Uy-wooBrom field Book Is Commercial, Pointed For Tie to Mann in, Thayer Books life, ofthe-Cbureivao- men AGNUS in their happier momentsdmagine they could be if they ever with sufficient royalty from settled down to it a free-agepublished work to be independent of any master, able to lake an Occasional assignment here and there as it please the fancy, good company in any crowd, a congenial and capable drinking companion, in a position to travel about a bit between jobs, and capable of turning put epic poetry and saleable fiction or of pursuing an amorous with equal finesse and unquestioned success. Such, we say, was Magnus, an amiable, rake and a v whimsical A philosopher yet he constantly found himself entangled in difficulties Of his own innocent creation. Hi life. it seems, was one of frustration and defeaL To use bis own words, I'm a buffoon; I'm Troilus with a cold in his nose, sneezing toward the Grecian tents. I'm Romeo coder the wrong window, Ajax with a boil in his armpit, Priam with a hundred hair-lippdaughters,, Roland with a pair of horns, etc, etc." And really it does seem he gels a lot of bad breaks for such a charming rogue. e e the verg f a promotion -' and citation for bravery on the fields of France h mistakes bis Work for Hun In the darkness captain . end Impalaa him with a bayonet Adventuring for the military cross Wayne C. In Meoopotamla' he tanks np on Vodka and tells the commander how to run the campaign, barely mAIXE C. GROVER, formerly A leader escaping tn In the Nationalist movement literary editor of the. News, Scotland ho runs for parliament, and now of Washington. D. C won to have only, on the eve of election, high literary honor this week with his campaign manager decamp with the publication of his story, "The hia elect1 oa funds and nomination Finer Points. in ths May issue of or so sparkling fee. A Story magaxlne, the national liter-romances likewise conclude fir organ. Mr. Gror-er- s ary ahort-stor- y story, a sensitive delineation of unpleasantness In desperation a dramatic situation occurring in and defeat he returns to his native Orkney, there In 'pastoral tranquil- -- the House office building postofperootttudeTo is listed high In the ranks of this and fice. escape ity verse fate which so unhappily purthe month's contributors to the sues him. In no time at an hes magaxlne. which is credited Incibuxom to a more married, perforce, dentally. with introducing fine short story writers to the pubcountry lass, and Is established as an Orkney farmer surrounded by lic than any other magaxlne ' In many years. The story deals with thoroughbred stock and promising the events that follow a negros young Msrrlmana. And there we leave him. this adventurous end appearance as one of the employes in the postoffice, and makes poetic spirit, chained to the soil from which he sprang but Megcleverly a difficult point, that of the mutual failure of the negro ans -- semes to mind it not at alL -Mr.Llnklater has created In !. and white man to understand each other. hlagnus Merriman a large and loveable character and has led him a care Tree, and alternately Joyous and tragic life. But the tragedy le light and tba story oa the whole is on ' of rich humor of a rabelaisian flavor. Tbs conversation andMsgnus numerous soliloquies era brilliant and stimulating, and ths depiction of Orkney folk life is charming . GESER OF LING, by Alexandra and satisfying. Its a long time David Neel and the Lama Tong-desince this reviewer has enjoyed a Claude Ken dell. New Tork; hook so thoroughly. .; ... 10 pages, price. . ... ... T N the long lists of books that English Humanist, continually Issue from the American press there appears only Statesman Limned once In a great while a volume classwhich an bolds all for appeal THOMAS MORE, by Daniel Sares of readers, but such a claim can gent; Sheed 4k Ward, Inv. N. Y.r be made for epic conscientiously pp. H5. Hit. story of the Life of Cesar, the MesIn the siah religion of the inhabiA MONO the sainted figures of tants of Tibet. The land itself is " history few there are of such one of mystery, romance and adfortitude Intelligence, Integrity, venture generally forbidden to the and constancy as Thomas More, western world. . But the author has English scholar, author and statespenetrated its secrets, learned the man of the latter fifteenth and folklore of the people and with the early sixteenth centuries. In that bleak period of Tudor ascendancy More, the humanist, ths philosopher, the defender of tho Calholle Mr. Watson faith, stands alone as a monument .of virtue, wisdom end humility. and in this book, Daniel Sargent .. Solves has etched a memorable portrait of man. noble the As head of the English' legal "A DRINK FOR MR. CHERRY. gyetem and Lord Chancellor ef the by Dorothy Gardiner, a Crime empire. More walked arm in arm Club Mystery, published by with Henry the Eighth who later, Doubleday Doran A Company, through his ministers Wolsey and N. Y.; pp. 2$; $:. bethe elder Cromwelt had him headed, drawn and quartered as a IT isnt very often that the Old spectacle of kings vengeance beMan will climb out of his fore the eyes of ail tho world. The easy chair, take off his coat and wittiest man of his century. More tart to holler but here is a murder-myster- y Jested with his executioners as they laid him oa ths block this same that not only lives up to its name, but one that gives the Mre who wore a hair shirt spent endless hours In prayer and mereader lull measure of thrills. ditation. and was ever a loving chills; and kills. husband and Mr. Watson, a New York defather. a a a leave Is sent to Colorado for SARGENT 8 narrative his health. He has Just had an attack of pneumonia and his docMore from the cradle tors say that a month in the quiet to the grave, and not only chronitown of Horaoeburg will do him cles, but provides and intsrpreta He arrives the day Bessie good. ths historical background of, thia Coulson is found with her throat brilliant and tragic career. We cut from ear to ear. learn under what conditions and I refuse under any circumcircumstances "Utopia was writstances to reveal any more of the we are Introduced to the beau. ten; tiful friendship of More and Erasstory because this is too good to spill. The characters of ths small mus, we follow More's fortunes as town tragedy are worth the price a commercial barrister and later as of the book alone. Mr. Cherry, a royal Judge watch him pro-- well past eighty plays his phonoBounce sentence on heretics and see him tried for his own heresy, graph for all the neighbors. Tbs which consisted of his steadfast reneighbors would like to do somefusal to recognise any other head thing about It, but Mri Cherry .ignores them. There Is of the English church than the Judge Stockham. Nat Picker the mayor. pope, and bis unwillingness to A1 countenance the divorce from tho banker Oglivla, GllHreatb, Catherine and the legitimacy of and of course Bessie Coulson who is mixed up with the lot In no Anno Boleyn and tho Princess Elisabeth. childish way. Take the advice of an old man Sargents style Is scholarly and who has waded through Impressive, yet the book is never many dull. It Is a valuable bit of interreams of tripe in an effort to find an occasional good bit that A pretive historical writing, and is well deserving of Ha recent selec- -. Drink for Mr. Cherry is one of tlon for excellency by tho Catholic the best thrillers of the last year. Book dub. M. L. GOWANS. MERRIMAN I BT T. L. CANNON GOLDEN KIMBALL, tbe story of a Unique Personality, by Claude Richards, published Hy ' Till Deeeret News Press, Salt Luke City; $2.60; $$T pages. tTIREB SHINY WORK are ' brought together In a Eighty, Mr. Richard, relates aa Interview with his subject on the unique in that It is letters eightieth birthday. June S, mretlytold lathe opsrkltng wit 1311, In which, by the question and of the subject In his own vivid answer process, he draws from manner Elder Kimball relates some of hia early experlencea. first as a Kimball, many of hia Interestthis ing views toward his. Church, hispioneer In the Boar Lake velley. hie ALTHOUGH a hit idealistic, financial times of family, his associates in ths preaidpereonaUty, Joaalna. day, backsliding from whlch he derived'''WtrbmUes unique Is the history of Mormon-Isvaried phases of Ufa la general. him In later lessons of value-- to presents a Hving. breathing A number of tributes to Elder years. picture of Elder J, Golden Kimball, .J. ' Eric Linklater Creates Glowing Character " --Sound Portrait of T homos More n t SECTION 1934 . . - - iz , - ' - fit y v.-.- -y t I ! |
