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Show 4. wewr ua j THE DESERETHEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTTMBER iTli Further Episodes in Career Secret; Service Ex-Briti- " sr j "ii ' i New i Walpole Novel - . Plication of the present volume it becomes possible for all of ns mystery gourmands to get the actual facte about secret service activities in war time. This is the most important spy book that has come out of the perhaps wzr.No before, fa as high a position as Captain Landau, has ever fold his t lory. Born in South Africa of Boer and English parents .educated in France and later at Cambridg he was Grany, peculiarly fitted -by his knowledge of languages and countries for 'the calling of ' harge of the Secret service work behind the German line, fa gium and northern France. to admire and not a tittle icxJtg - r numerous agents in tha occupied territories! time rJiso .the entire service bed-- brokertdowiT'STid'Xbe-- appeals to even Start- ii cents organization, or senes of organizations because duplication was nee-essary on account of the German counter-sn- v system. N roarfar Cln enfOS ibis book with the usual spy story Which higmy personalized story generally colored with and romantio deeds. The author makee clear for foe firstexploits time what Infdmation was wanted, how it was obtained and bow it ultimately found its way to foe Allied General Headquarters. ro author hu little UM for fo Kwuntle spy and this table la f tha entire system. It Includes many of tha great espionage coups . f the war, the famous Belgian aa. eret organisation that waa known HEARKEN TO THE EVIDENCE. a tha Whits Lady at tha Bohen- By H. Ruascll Wakefield; pub- - J W " BT FRANK WINS "T" GOVERNMENT RULES INDUSTRY, by Michael F. Gallacher, Oxford , University Press, New York, 240 pages; price, 12.00. , timely interest to everyone is this scholarly analysis of the aspects of foe'Nalional Industrial Recovery Act, by a law has had long experience in cases before various departwho yer ments of the government The volume, according to the foreword, is the sequel to s course of ieclures given before s group of advanced law students and attorneys, and it is technical in its nature, but not to the extent that laity will be unable to understand. f the economic and financial crisis Beginning with a description in the spring of 1933 which prompted the passage of the unique legislation, the book describes the safeguards placed in the act by its luthor s fa oviefgaffleTiliely corisUtntfonarigclIoni.ThsJiroad,tiIle:! of foe law, its insistence that an emergency-made its passage- - imperative and the declaration in the act itself that it was intended for are gone-fat- e and foe objccts as enum- teropSary-- sppliealion-onl- y OF -- that h. tragic, and always thrilling, injected into the story ta an at mosphera of mystery which sur. rounds the race of Engllsb-speaing or!I1 scienuflceiiy bred by an English wizard biologist. Into the clutches of this demant-- 4 nc.entist and his horde of ear- fall two lovely moage half-me-n tion picture ecr eases. Their fate - Inc.. Garden City, N. T.; 04 pages; 22.49. BT JESS SIMMONS read this novel of the crush ing progress of a modern court of Justice is to he staggered by tha horror and suffering that tie behind the straggle of an Innocent person against the law. Told with restraint yet with vivid satire, it pictures civilized society matches soma of tha mors striking portrayals along this tins in recent fiction. Here are the harrowing days between a crime and 'the state's revenge, presented in the full irony of the paradox that one is guilty until proved innocent. For nothing could convince the honorable men and women of this particular Jury that Sandra Tarnhorn had not willfully connived with Noel Carroll to poison her invalid husband. It was obvious that all the accoutrements of murder were hers. Including Noel, the young author whose brilliant nervous tension seemed to hare made him curiously susceptible to Sandras soothing charm. Most of alt there was that atupid oaf, the gardener's assistant, mad for a moment in the spot-tigof excitement. revela-tioGuilty! No to shock the court. No apA peal. No hope of reprieve. young woman waits tor death. was shot by the Ger- Co- mans and how Information waa passed to Holland despite tha Ugh voltage fence and tha heavy guard. It deals with tha liquidation of the espionage organizations at the and of tha war and of the author meeting for the first time with many of the agents whs had worked under him. It la also related how tba British with the men who bad worked for them and risked their lives in the service. At the eloee of the war the anther saw thl)e Kaiser Interned in eaw Holland and crossing Belgium t the German nrmlee In retreat He waa then appointed passport agent in Berlin and had tha opportunity to witness the German people in all their Buffering fa the post-w- 'JO ,mr ar day. in It . difficult to do justice to the mine of Information contained in this volume.. It is authentic and has been documented, Besidet the fund of wartime experience It reveals foe high type of men who find their way Into any wars most 'dangerous game. a CAPTAIN NICHOLAS, by Hugh n, Walpole; published by Garden City, Mew ' ht Double-day-Dora- Tork; ' 429 pages. M-- I. 'T Ere! Is a fat and Juicy ns nt rornan- - ers attention whipped to the breaking point, the author of They Return at Evening and .Imagine a Man in a Box. rounds out, with tba blind, ironic, natural justice of life, a book that will be n Joyed by those who like psychological murder fiction. cancer. Captain Nicholas, blackmailer, thief and card sharp, n genial English gentltman and n fellow. thoroughly delightful Tha depression was particularly hard bn those butterfly' of society whd object to work on per-aonal grounds and so Nicholas and his daughter, Lizzie, cam back from tha continent to tha family horns In England. It was a pleasant old fashioned family. B had been nway so long that h waa mors a legend than anything else -' nnttl hi unexpected appearance that afternoon. His sister Fanny, was not very ghe sometimes confused Epstein and Einstein, but she believed In the goodness of her comfortable husband Charles and ' her cosy home. 6h had two clever, modern children but she managed to maho n contented and happy , horn for them, and for her sister and her brother too. She was glad to have her brother home because he made things more Interesting and be amused and entertained the whole family. With this setting. Mr. Walpole pins a fascinating yarn about tha sinister progress and casual power of this tall charming pirate. How he ferrets cut th secrets and foolish Indiscretions of his relatives and turns them to hi own use, how he plays on tha fears that draw them all to tha inevitable climax; la as thrilling reading as run Into. yoiThehave, everHugh gives us a trusty Detent Job In this his latest story. W4 cam recommsnd It without reserve for ail it Is, a swell boos, -- FRATER FOR THE LIVING, by Brace .Marshall: published by a a a ! ' 7-- T 2. to. 1934; 140 pages; schools arc PRIVATE boarding same the world over firey-thatch- na- New library Books Th fonowtnr hooks wUI ho Foblio Ubrory MeoAsr. tfco f 6 64 to Kncmmoti- - Adstns Toot Child Is Nsnoole Book of Grttt Aotoblojrropfcr. Conor Bomsa eo f Spillfh CoUtas optiea. ExporlmooUl Cow ocUos of Amoficoa Ism Emmt snttoftJ, 134. Boons Wstof lo dedr. Frost Astronomer's Life, ChtaK Tork; xweanesdaf.T asr'iMt ' Gow-atU- Morley Callaghan Was Protege of Hemingway ! e. Woman Humorist Writes Amusing Narrative English - Morley Callaghan, who was once a protege of Ernest Hemingway, while tit latter was writing for a Canadian newspaper, not only beam a striking resemblance to his former mentor bat shares his proficiency with the padded glove, marlin fishing and general getting around. Callaghan's short story, The Runaway. appears ta tho current Issue of Esquire along ttb Hemingway's Defense of the Th above Dirty Word. pen drawing is by Howard Mohnk. d "GLORT JAM by Carotin rated by the Sunday street church , is a masterpiece of mild sarcasm published by Mtnton-Balc- h Co-, New York. A Jordsa Loro of tho Old HsmostosA. Price, 22, thinly veiled. Ltsooek Bsek to Prosperity. The title of the book Is deserving III pp. todtss to BabSiaas FoSoro. Leslie of special mention. As the SpeetaIHe Link New Psychology of Boiling and BT tVINNIFRED WILLET de la Malson, Peregrine concoct Advertising. LORY JAM by Caroline Mother1 Caeyelopedtn. a marmalade, brewed from varPlerc Citison OrgentsgtSoag ga4 tho acious spiegs, sugar and rhubarb, with is th highly amusing CM Training eft Tooth. AND FICTION FACT as a dash of peculiar flavor, the Ryna gcientlfte Cheokers Mads Knsy. count of foe summer frivptiti of a dirt that clings to th rhubarb when Bokoloff Vitality. Gertrude Atherton one wrote a and heteragenou. group, English it is brought fresh from th garden. Bmith Brangelo of Xefonm. story about love and adventure In . American neurotic type who have Taft Witnesses ta Court. nsme. It Glory Jem, Is bsstowed Monterey, which was so convincWest American General Mfwtlta devoted their entire existence to by the scornful cook. of ing and vibrant a picture of old most expression 4tctiom the original To my that th book is tremenBeker Cartrlg ht Is Dead. Blc Spanish customs that Californian their , Individualities. Th story dous or In any respect startling B inn Lightship. today indignantly aasur yon of its which their Idlosyncracle ar Into Fletcher Murder f th Becrot Agent. would be to disappoint the reader. absolute veracity. Jt is cdtied The woven is negligible, but sente a Hughes Ley Bong: However, not to admit that It is Pearls of Loreto, aad la reprinted for Steen Matador, dull background a convsnlently amusing would be unfair to th auIn the July issue of Golden Book watpete Captain Kteheta , the sly thrusts of humor, occasionthor, th publishers and the many Wilder Heart Bs ttfli. Magazine. and a tremendou al very good bit nonsense. readers who are bound to enjoy it amount of pur W recommend that tt be reed Th Ashes, including the mother, to two or three congenfxl aloud who weeps copiously end becomsoul whose sense of th ridiculous fashion. bewildered 1 In a ingly very practiced and whose sense r. of humor is not too exacting. Th Peregrin, the son who Inconals-tencare hi .charm and who ocblurb compare th book to jacket casionally reveal his stubborn devolumes of P. O. Wodehou termination. Muriel Ash whom th Glory Jam is charming in it own - reader never meet, nor warn to. right and th more ouickly thorn t eomes to that, and Letty. foe ALEXANDER THE CORRECTOR comparisons (always odious w reth pages. Tet somehow biographadopted daughter, find themselves peat smugly) are smothered, the by Edita Oliver, published by ies fall to grip ns unless w feel and very impoverished suddenly 'The Viking Press; 24t pages; happier a lot of P. G. Wodehou that the subject was a character open up a tea house. It le In confane will bs. ' 22.19. whose actions shook th world; tea house foe with nection that th oven and the tremendous accomBY JOHN R. TALMAGE There characters appear. NO OTHER GODS, by Albert Mun-daamazing plishment of compiling th Conla Oriel Heath, a sob etiter of th Meador Publishing comcordance of th Bible (and It will HE biography of that fantastic T lives feels who first she rank, pany, Boston. 1934; 271 page. 22. A little man, Alexander Grad surprise moot of ns to learn that makes whe a and abundantly are today there yearly more copies of herself by sympathizing and es. whoso gullslets naivete, fervof Cradans Concordance sold taaa ' THIS western story i very differ- e ent seal, enormous conceit and unsharing everyone's pet worry; ,th itsav other book any Bible the ent to tb usual run of Botoo, who ar believable persistence make hts American, writing self Anthony Adverse and Ulys- life etoriy sound- - more like a fable a book of psychological revelation; and come from- th pea of a ses not excepted) tails to place th two old maid shopkeepers on than a rtallty. it makea th reader man who claims to have lived on him (a that category. , f think of those stories he vacation; Myrtle, foe sophisticated tb frontier in early days when Inheard Mia Oliver deserves much credyoung lady who fall in lev with dians and pioneers struggled, tor a s when a child.' where eseh char- it for th fin piece of work sb th actor disregards every rule of logmild and who plans livelihood on uncultivated soilrCay hag turned out and It Is well worth . a campaignPeregrine In his actions in order that the ' to marry him; th loPryor, at th age ot 5. treks with as Ui if feeding, a of only study - ic cal nobility and the strange priest, moral of the story may ho brought - his son. Brio, to th western prairtb manner morals and of th Out I ies to mak a nw homo. avowedly aa Anglican and at heart century. I fear, however, a Roman. Thera la Bo doubt that th biTh hard, long drawn ont battle that th book will never b nearar all They ography is charmingly overdrawn ot pioneer Ilfs la depicted. If at written, so widely toad a th Concorpicture ly of th and th reader will smile more typo. Th reader time th story does not scam endance of th man about whom it is constantly obsessed with tin feelthan a few times while persuing tirely plausible, it is at least posjwaa written. Th stylo s goon, but that the ing undouht-dlwho y author, sible; aad on .can imagln such . not good enough to alon hold UP beg real talent. Is playing tt hard working homesteader going side Voreker'sl cabin and a price- th interest; th story Is amusing. down Jn an effort to writ a very-lig- ht insane from tbelr trial end Strug but not vital; Cruden'e persists nc )ss-- diamond becklaoe Is thrown , Into his own bunk, bio suspicions comedy sketch. It all may be oa which th author dwells at becoming sans a th gle,' again part of her design because she oc. i years roll on and hops dims, but crysteUx and th chase is on. great length, finds Its counterpart ' falonally reveals You will find this easy and In- -. ' In th writing, at times a trifle heraelf ae a per. , their sense ot values quicken. ' cut perceptions and the , tedious Most western stories ar from th ' foresting vending.' written ' with a light touch that' carries you tight Weil worth 4 trial by fossa Who - ability to express those perceptions. u cowpuncheris viewpoint, and traat - ' Her of Uc this sort gf thing. through to fog last pages the descriptions ' prolightly fog aide of hie follower, the , pggaant V Mortst-U- nfn Lond-- f for Lirtof -- li a Jftf 1 Sea-for- Sea-fo- G' rd - Bible Concordance Writer Subject of New Biography S THE PLEASURE MT8TEBT. by Robin Forsythe from th Tired Business men's Library, publish-- 4 Co., by O. Appleton-Centur- y New Tork. jtt pages, 12. Cruise Mystery 1 THE Pleasure Forsythes contribution Tired to the ApplstonlCsntury Business Mens library. And ' it team presents a well nigh perfect for th unraveling of aa lntrign-Jn- g and exciting murder. Anthony Vereker, a young well to do professional painter occasionally takes time off to study strange quirks In human behavior. - n 1 aided and abetted by Man- -, eel Ricardo, whose only bnsines in tits Is to bav a good time while someone else pays tho bilL Rl- -cardo writes th advertising tor V he Initial Pleasure cruise of a European steamship Uno and gets Vtreker to accompany him -on tho liner th palatialtrip. Aboard Mars, their attention Is attracted to group of wealthy South Americana Manuel a Interested because th women of th party and theirmaid ara all baautlful and asdnottvo. Being human aad footloose he feels the mil. Vereker isanumed wear at th fact that th women their jewels n aa odd manner. A on leads to but that slight fact r the real mystery. When the body c SO of th k found oa the i RebeK-a1frpurre- vide a pretty meaty mssl for any reader, and gives him something to digest. It is well north reading and pondering. Weston N. Nordfren. LAWRENCE'S LAST Witch a U Mode, thought to be the last hitherto unpublished short story by D. H. Lawrence appeals in the curent Issue of Esquire and will be published eeveral week later in England. the head always finds It hard to believe In God. and causes an exthe plosion that nearly wrecks school, one that doesnt blow over till but read the story yourself. Tonll find H one of the most amusing and thoroughly satisfying L novels of tbs season, M. L. t2.IV. HEREWITH -- -- 235 pp.. U offered the story of a modern country girl, the daughter of a famous writer, who because no one In her home believes In her, runs away to the big city and makea good. It is an answer of youth to the charge that night clubs and wild parties make up the sole desire of voun peoplo of today, and as such is highly refreshing. There Is plenty of romance too in. the story, considerable heartache and a wholesome ideal for youth to follow even though It deals with a runaway girl. Rebecca, because she Is not as pretty an her atster, fails to gain the attentions In th home thst th elder girl does. Moreover she has aspiration to do something really big In tha world. Her father submerged ta th glory of his own success and flattered by the continued praise of his new wife merely laughs at the ambitions of hit daughter. And so ab goes out on her .own. Good fortune throws her Into the company of others who are also struggling. A newspaper Inreporter who takes terests in her, a temperamental to proyouth who is determined duce a good book, a man who has attained success hi the magazine field and is satisfied. by Christian s ettcoufagemlnt struggle on and also quite naturally falls In Jove with hei Aeacber. Then comes a new disappointment, she finds ha is engaged. However, she also learns ta love the woman he Is to wed, and to pity the young struggling author. The story rvoves rapidly, but quietly. It baa Interest in every chapter, is full of Inspiring philosophy, but never grows It is literature of a really higher order. Frank R. Winn. are deep, Uv- The author o of hh and which came to him In prison,fruit-of which helped lrim to see the crime, and the true Ufa. Through Christian value of the exercise of love upon those who were his enemies, he won them over and made friends of them; through the exercise of love in hie dally work he became the best garment j maker In prison and helped others to enjoy what heretofore had been distasteful labor. There are a lot of values In this little volume that can be slipped In- to the pocket and read in odd momeats. The book is called a living proof that love conquers all,'" aad is penned by one who proved tt under He relates bow tremendous odd he aided several confirmed criminals to become self supporting, independent good citizens, worth much more to the community outside of prison than in it. He tells also his experiences in regard to religion, and what they mean to him- For all peoplo w ho have considered that prison Is just a place lor criminals and that those who have spent their year dodging tha law or Inside a house of correction, there Is a lesson in this book. It la interesting. Instructive end enter- experiences SSME and lasting. this Util book tU and In Prayer for the Living." yon have the engrossing story of th master and boys in a Scottish prep school. Brace Marshall, tha author of "Father Malchy's Miracle turns on his devilish wit and biting satire to brighten the scene or heighten the pathos surrounding the schoolboys In their every day experiences. The story open in southern Scotland during the war. All the country is In the fever of the war and the boys know that aa soon as they leave the walla of the school they will go to the training camps and thence over eeaa. Middleton, one of the youngest of the teachers. Is In loss with Petrie, the of the daughter headmaster. This fact not, only grates on the nerves of the good head but adds fuel to the flam that star Is when Middleton demands the expulsion of anulty he finds beating another student with a golf club. The climax comes when the assistant head reports that Middleton and Petrie have been bathing in the river Just a they were, without one plea." or to the layman, in the nude This bap-- i - 21.6. le a chances of' the measura standing up in tha courts are analysed from tha various angles' of tha emergency nature of i tha measure with quotation of precedent in this field. The Justification under the interstate oemmerc TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAT. by Henrietta Buckmaster, Rae CAN OPEN PRISON DOORS; by Starr Daily; DeVoras LOVE -- .. istration, with a description of foe various boards set up, aa analysis ortbe NRA and the various codes with the problems each has created The labor provisions come in for a special treatment in which their , meaning, especially that of the famous A clause are investigated from the viewpoint of lawyers and precedents.-- ' The effect of foe modification of the anti-tru- st law are surveyed and Their good points and short comings gone over, and there is a long chapter on the administration and enforcement of the codes, Idaho cowboy. Salt lake policeman, cavalry trooper, storekeeper and gold miner, but primarily creator of the one and only Tanan, about whom a new novel has Just been . published. and that of the survivors of the motion picture expedition constitute a plot-fillewith romance.' intrigue, danger and thrilling situa, tions. k- pages, HE raised to such legislation by tbs due process of law and separation of government functions clauses are studied. The author goes deep into all the objections with ample citations for the opponents' claims, but believes that the act will be sustained when ft cornea before th supreme court. As to the merits of tha act. he takes a rather unreasoning attltud in the negative. In this respect, only, is his book sometimes weak, it would have been better had h stuck to his law in which his ability Is evident, and left politics and economic to experts in those fields. A copy of the recovery act la given in the appendix and a list of legal decisions dealing with similar subjects is also Included. DESERT WIFE, by Hada Faunce, Little Brown and Company, Boo- -, ton- - 30d page. 3, v O' Arizona dwell tbs Navajo Indians famed for their blanket making and livestock raising, and foe except as they trade these pertain white mans good - theyhave had little contact with civilization. What contact they do have-- la w 1th the traders on. their reservation and then must learn to speak the Indian languauge and become virtually one with -- them. It is with the wife of one ofh tradern Jhst the ersrent volume deals and tt is written as .rT simple autobiography of the womaa herself. There la little of high literary. polirls to the story and for a, time while the author and her husband are traveling from Oregon. where they have lost every thing, back to th desert where Ken know the' land and people, the vorfe..l ra.th common place and dull. An Incident in Salt Lake local City .during the trip add tpuch which tends to bring tb vicinin this close to people story . ity, But when foe cod pi are settled lu their trading post on th reservation, then Jh book tak oa a value that seldom could b found eleewbere. for th woman, because of th necessity of the situation and the loneeomenen wh'ch she endures, not being of th same lyp husband, ae her wilderneee-bor- n becomes familiar with th Indian and learns their intimate habit, decharacter. The sire, emotionsInand a simple, straighteh portrays forward way which bring out all their beauty and make th red men really Ilia for the readers they must have done for th writer, ghe tells of their traditions their nd . family life, suspicion, religions fear of white men. 8h describe their erremodle es part of her dally life aftd gives information ucs to qualification needed for cemful trading. Thrill. urrae, romance, plots and other things needed for a good story i abound, and th whole thing of held together by the struggle th trader to amass enough. t buv them a little farm. d Th book Is deifehtfutty t!lotrat-ewith pen sketches by W. Long-do- n aver Kthn. It better - than ,ag reading F. W. - -- BEAT Aagtut , y; nul-an- wart-ern- - olgh-teen- -- -- ?of , 4 , Vata-ta- Bd fc i. sI b el be p hi le . Row. b "(SStta tk w pi tut mt i 1 t e CO t. tl ihoi tm 3a or) eda the out arol as Ich r,t ram ye till 1 vn. An ion. ints esar whl try. 'tl spla It. . 8 r. Ilgh Taaa ted IL Holy" Deadly, by A F. Herbert. P 13J onrnoy tfa The Cemhig American Beem. by U Bt Simon A Scantier. B Nijmekr. hy Romoia KUiaaky. gtmse hrar" learner, by J. B. Prleetley. S Modem Americas Preaa. by Cart Vaa Derea. d Harcourt, grace. Hitler Over Bare, by Rraet Mesrt. Clmoa A Schuater. Ton Hurt Reiss, by Bdaattad Jacebaea. Wear CO A, homesteader. This takes th other side snd while tb lighter, cheerier ton ot love runs through It. fo story deel mainly with th sorrow. the disappointment and fog defeats ot the homesteaders. It tell also ot th ultimata triumph of th homesteader in some sections, while fo cowboy and tha miner triumph ta others. 1 Ch Mr. Chip, by Junes 'Biltaa. Little. Brewti. East aad Weet. by Semereet Mamba. Doubled, Perea. Th od U Nov herw by Mesne Welsh. StoSee. 1 Claudia, by Sebert Sraves gwtth .r, ) RJ 5EU-Z- if-l- 4k - , motion picture company when de- eariedhythaii native cot laere RECENT RELEASES IN BRIEF REVIEW And how ah " " a - - wlu moUo pic,ur proJue Uon, in which ho has found much - Bef- m , Noted Barrister Interprets Legal Phases of NBA . ... Life Among theNavajos TARZAN AND THUS LION 1UN, Or Edgar Bice Burrouftaa, illustrated by 1. Allen St. John; published by Edgar Bice Bdirough Inc, Xanana, California, 'THja story was eonoelved lei lowing fo release of a motios picture that was quit apparently timed to taka advantasa of tba tremendous popularity of Tanan tba Apeman and caPltaL iaa on tba famous creation by Edgar Kica Burro a ha It aeamed to tba author that It would bo most lntarestins to havo a Tanan Imposter of tha screen faced with tha actual condition in tba African Jungle that tha real Tarsaa encountered daily, and alas to bring tbeso two man together in tha story. H ALLS FAIR, Tb Story of tha British Secret Service Behind the G9nnan" Lines, .written by Captain Henry. Landau, published ' by Putn4m 60ns.. Kew York, 830 ; , piers, 3. . Blue Eagle Of Strange Jungle Creature jt Agent Recalls Stirring War Days Shipboard Tale BULL GOWANg sh rnr T, 193 mo end mad - FI igali nm. LED in f J |
