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Show I I j J" 'V VI THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDiY. DECEMBER 7.1933. f STATION THREE 7 A World, Of Boohs Life In Its Reality Shown Murder Mystery -- Tivo New Adventure Mystery Stories Will Delight Lovers Of Exc iting Fiction A LADY, WIZ-KE- - bharp Ine.; 246 pp. THE 13TH CRIME by T, 330 pp. C, -- - pp; - .- , u col Read a myslerybook week," but the? two widely different tjpes of mystery stories are among the best of, tbs ' month's outpuL' , Save a Lddv u a tight andf delightful tale of a New York society gnl who is about To make a mistake on her wedding' day and' " manner. 'This punides tjie lart of cot reel it m no niyetery, including agood murder. And as the Utie might lead one to guess tit lady Is saved.-- 1 Bui for. the life or me" I cecl see why the heroine is dele i mined a real lady ju-- l beeauseshe'a'ked for the bathroom when But iov.ai iIip ws itr art ernhan a?tos f that fifties. by thtve pick-u- p the' three hK' ir of the highway proceed a lajv. HIS um-erlj- to-ri- .a. enlthiimjeiit an evemria's into it land of adventure Jhe reader wltf n"t go wWrg oa thsf toeSE-ll- ie murder is there as w most mjetery novels but it's net nice clean bloody one. Just filiations. ihooluig Thai Jeads iro serious and Incidentally, "have a Lady' ho a new type of binding that 1i pleasing to the eye and should help sales. flic 13th Chime is entirely different. The plot includes n dciertlve Stories, anTnirTnaiional crocdc prfirfrdiFeafer vnt-liec-oand the daughter of the Brilib foreign mimsler, whose brother Is ensnared by a band of diplomatic paper snatchers, - F R . . and each possessed its vital Jfe - pacta f humsn-lntwes- b pan, 6f Wilson w-mer s ; Fiction, Abbot About tpe Murder of Startled Lady. Benefield Villons I th Word for Carrie. , Brow ne All Things are possible. Clayton Gold of Toulbuee. Day-LeQuestion of Proof. Dingle Pip JtlPHanda Jsrreft Ginkgo Tree. Lobrke First Bus Out Masefield Victorious Troy or the Hurrying Angel. Roche Penthouse. Bcott Priscilla Falls in Love. Valter Arctic g. O. 8. 1 Mian Beth McHenry, author of Had Illusions ha. taken New , at work on a new book of ber experience in the deep South among the sharecroppers oropany will publish it early ia The-'Henk- r friend and confidante. Np doubt il was Thai very ape in his career Ual has now,. brought Mr. Sullivan to hi present position yearner tor the great of post-w- ar prosperity crashed about days before the good solid-er- a 'his ears; seeker of a lost order, a voice crying in a confuting Demodeities, where Republican- - senators endorse a DenTorral, and a Itemocralie condemn president. crats . fhe auilior has comEl. this has mr connection with Hie as historian recognize.l the firt a His is ability piled, you say. five volumes were hailed as masterpiece of age descript Am. However true that may be the information he has here recorded is not worth the 653 pages devoted to it end other event of that ha years, worth far more discussion now, e decade later, he forgotten. R. SULLIVAN know He po- - : - 1, V --- f? tn-to- ry -- twenties thoroughly and completely. Hs records facts and Impresauunmistakable sions with He speek of Hardthority. as , associates but and ing be knew them.' from day' to-dduring the campaign, and later as they set up a new government In Washington. Probably no other writer is ao familiar with the history of l'ho Harding regime. It is our loss that ' th author did not choose to re. atri- -t hn velum to Republican political history. The first 254 pages are detoted to a discussion of the candidacy and presidency of Warren Q. Harding, from the time of hto first meeting ' with Harry Daugherty, when handsome features won him a place in the Ohio politician's heart, to tho time of bis death. One small chap, ter describes the Democratic campaign and the retirement of Presi- . ay THE FABULOUS MIZXER WILSON m Mixntr to arrbundeflby fpotlichto. and mirror rcflttof other lam ooa and notorious characters of the last few decade. The reader begins to bemoan the fact that ha was never J!esed with a. ptac at Milner's table or allowed to bak' m the semtUaUng wit attributed to that happy harbinger of Hades. The book appeal primarily to the readers desire for sensational material and is Interest, ng for just that reason. Mr. Fuliivao ha written several other wimilar booto Rattling the t'tip. Chugo and The Snatch Rack--et.- Best sellers tor the week ending s, November 2T, are reported by aa follows; - FICTION It Cant Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis; Doubleday. Doran; S3. 50. '' Edna. HI Wife, by Margaret Ayer Barnes; Houghton, Mifflin; Brgn-tano- ANDRE MAUROIS In the December issue of Current Controversy Andre Afaurois and Malcolm Cowley engage in aa exciting discussion on whether political change stifles or stimulates the writer. M. Maurois save 5o. 'Times of war or revolution, or i: Vacant la tbe Word For Carrie, Indeed any periods of stress and disby Barry Benefield. Reynal A turbance. are definitely unfavorable Hitchcock; 53.00. to the acUvities of the artist UnEurope, by Robert Brlffault; der such conditions, the production Scribner: !.75 of outstandingly good literature Butterfield 8, by John O'Hara; . rare. This aaUent fact, consequently Har ourt. Brace; 52 50. must be clearly borne in mind beSilas Crockett, by Mary Ellea fore one can hope to arrive at anyChase; Macmillan; thing Jike a true estimate of the value .to date, of the twentieth cen- Jtury, liters ry.oulput, L Writw As I Ptease. by Waiter In reply M r Cowley points out Duranty; Simon A Schuster: 55 00. while during the first years Mr. A stops Horse, by Stanley that, of-- a re v elution fhe people are too .Walker; Stokes; 53.09. husv to write, later on revolution The T w unties lOur Times!, by fertilises the WHIr and brings Mark Sullivan: Scribner; 33 75. about a renaissance in ail the arts. Cradle of tbe Storms, by Bernard 1 55-5- N -- -- W ARRLN G. HARDING uliahe rampaigit .ml prvwhlential mrivf are authorttalivrly diwuw . to. new volume by Mark gulUtaa. a, . Medal Awarded Modems Almanac, dent Wilson. Tbe author deserves credit for tbe Urge amount of space he do tbe Investigation of Ihs tie-vo- 'Man Without Hoe" W ins Pity-- F rom Poet NEW YORK. Nov. 30 (AP) The limited editions club has awarded Donald Culrowa Peattie, author of an atmanac for moderns. a gold medal for having The American hook produced most apt to become a classic. Mark Van Doren, ,ook reviewer. made the award at a breakfast of tbe club, eaying: I suspect 'an Alpianac for Moderns. of being a classic The book is an Actual aimanao based on the birthdays of great naturalists with a thumbnail cssajr on nature for each day of tbe year Tbe author started his career aa a reporter on the Chicago Tribune. His wie is Louise Redfield Peattie, novelist - OKLAHOMA CITT. Dae. T AP) Edwin Markham, 14. whosa poem, Ths Msn With the Hoe, stirred the world 3 years ago, said today Tbe man without a hoe is in worse plight than the peasant bla poem described aa: that grieve' not and that rever hope. Stolid and stunned, a brother A thing to tbe ox. . R. Hubbard; Dodd. Mead; 53.00. Man the Unknown, by Alexis Car. ' rcll; Harper. 33.50. Old Jules, by Mari Bandox; Little. Brown; Flatting a ramshackle squatters camp near tbe stockyard, he pointed to the bute end" then to th fat and cattle awaiting slaughter ; cried; ok at tbe difference. Man no longer I brother of the ox. . .he ha become th brother of the beato en 53-0- cur dog. Recent Books in Brief Review WHAT IF THIS FRIEND: by Richard HanloB: Claude Kendall and Wlilonghby Sharp Inc, 521 pp: I 5. , JBT HOWARD PEARSON Her to a'arlpplng tory of love, of war,, of hate, and of Jealousy, and of court IntriguwJn tho Roman empire at th birth of Christ. It is a stirring tale of adventure, of the conquest of .Vltelllus. of Syria, as he spread the glory and power of Roma to tho eolonjes ofrihat powerful . - . empire. It telia of deeds of bravery and of daring, at a time when one hum-- . on life, or even score of human .OUls could not thwart a man in hla HARVEST OF THE WIND, by Sarah Louisa Sweeny; Caxton Printers Ltd, publishers; Caldwell. Idaho- - 73- - pp; 33 50. Thia first novel by Mrs. Sweeny. delightful story of the period ig .proceeding the Civit war is a and thrttUng a atorv of that tim In American history known as the Kansas Struggle and bide fair to establish- - tho name of tho SPRING OF TOLTH. by LI. Wyn , Griffith; E. P. Dutton, IncA 133 , pp.; 51 59. Forword byM.RL Hon. Dai id Lloyd George, P. BT PAUL WHITXET Four superb qualities stand out In this email book heart appeal, poetic beauty, mature philosophy, and a atyi that keeps your, pencil busy underscoring its Imagery and oil Teapot Dome scandals, though at all times he is Careful lo or con- air nianve the 'Interpret cerned in tbe beet possible light. He constantly proclaims that the great scandal of bribery in the leasing of the oil reserves was in no way Hardings r&rfponsibiiit, but tho fault of his attorney general. Ins secrotary of the interior and oth-- rs he trusted very interesting In viw of M r. Sullivan's daily pronouncements against th present administration. Tha second half of Mr. Sulhtan s book te devoted to a treatise on III literature, art and. music of th "Twenties. all of which su'jjecls hs discusses with th ease of one without knowledge but with money to -- -- buy. The saxophone. seys Mr. Sullivan, could imitate Ibe yowl of A cat. the moo of a cow. the baa of A calf, ths whlnney of a horse. Parents Imprudent enough to yield to a boy's begging tor a saxophone tor Christmas found by New tears Tpmsmg'Tti " entire animal kingdom. Such was the biased, hasty opinion of a decade ago why norleap ten years and stale the truth? The last section of. the tolutue is a comprehensive ret lew of the fne-yeper.od. undoubtedly from the nesspsper lile of the period and valuable to anyone with fond memories of the hooks, plays, senators and movie stars of the per lod. ar HOW TO UNDERSTAND MUSIC, by Oecar Thompson; The Dial Press' J47 pp.; 33.75. Books about music are fright sning to laymen. Their call, acceptance of 'the belief that the read er already possesses a eomprehen-stv- a knowledge of ' the elemeutarv rudiments of mase or their immeoriginal- us of .word. diate attempts to instill in h'm such To communlcat the spirit and J authoV. knowledge often results lo an of Spring of Youth. to content It to more, however, than a histoward studying it. a Welshman,' or p anyone who has torical romance of the il discovered Wale while knocking Personal glimpse of Bernard Th author, long In th forefront W'sr period, and It more than a In literature. It-- would be De Voto were interpreted around y Dr, of American critics. rerornis th atorv of pioneering. It As a C Sucker. l almost enough to say that Li. Wyn JuegOQg ofAbe, tale of braWry, daring.' danger of techntcal discussion and Griffith to a Welshman who spells Lake Chapter of the League Balt of heartaches and pathos. In in easy, conversational tone. bis name like that; a worshiper of Mevtern Writers. In th- - Art "Harvest of the Wind "cone-m-s Barn Monday evening. Dr. Zuckcr of hla native soil a musician. S' of a doctor ban ll'ng reminiscent the adventure of a Ivpieal Kansaa attended of Mr tie toto at poet, an exalted mind. to a A child, brings tbe reader nt famllv of the ISSlis wh-- A that To comer his art to quit a Harvard last summer and hgd of the more Important necesstudy critiword of comer undertaking, many personal Hanoi's with tin -- 5 in the throes of .civil sities of getting th most Out of this former Utahn aho has achievcism coming as arduously and fued real dtstluctiou in th field of stp'fe tile a skywriting in a hurricane, cn-l- c. t listening For Vttelllu is an indomitably w Even tbe jacket blurb admitted demember nf the Oilinoro modern literature. Dr. Zuckcrs average Recognising that th fmilv. because of the strong ideal-to- m character. The mere wish of hie feat, a forword by the RL Hon. interpretation was highly interestsr the of adult listen enjoys opera, symfather and hi bitter, to the group he addressed, were naught te that David Lloyd George coming grandpetty ing subjects hatred against slavery, leave their . many jf whom remember Mr. passion of ambition ly to the rescue. phonies chain oer music and reloved one and friend in old. from his days at th Uniburning tn hi f'ery breast. Writing in pros style of his citals of various kind. Mr. Thompnd valiantly . wend Kentucky. He had been schooled hi th milichildhood n a little place that "Just versity ef Utah. no to effort makes son champion to beKan fell short of being a village tary. knowing not th tender lov prsine Tne jlttl magazine and whal the cause 6f any one He explains tween Bangor and Carnarvon In of a mother and to him. eves. them ell. their relation te tbe clasthey,, want from writer,- - was th Here, thee- run into all kindn of wwaTnoked upon with desire. of" lisle. Griffith i north the thing Iteteuer subject ora brier addre"!.,, Eni- - ' sic fompoaer and haw Ohstaeie. He waa alwavs one aten ahead of r AbpHtnftista of this erson Evans, writer and editor of thoroughly the poet in both his discan derive greater pleasure front tim r having tbe onenitix round articu-hxtlwhatever state he might hsppen cernment and his facultybf Baa Francisco. Frank C. DobcrC-eomusic by a better acquaintanceship of their sfrurgi with th slave to he In. The next office Shore wns what he sees and leela. In oue o U lahs best known with IL holdfr. the trouble reaching its to most profitably to him his destined place, and noth. fact, book th writer of adventure and western Mr. criticize Thompson severely Climax with the Civil War. "hi must advance to power. star ing read as ens reads a lyric poem. stories, spoks on tbs benefit of the pedantic musician who acorns Into thia net, of fretrev passion Only on man, hla schoolboy tn- both lo time and place as well ss lo a frth point of vlsw when writ-th public favorites wad maintains and hate, th Gilmore family is tor. gained his lov but even that method. While serving s theme' tog- Dr. Chari es G. Hummer, who that chamber music is the only type drawn, and this tala deals with was not th love of A friend for seems which ho ' worth tbe for appeal enough ZMJnrlL'a 1 oln th League of listenlpg passions which tor them- from friend. few small pages the Introepee-o- r 7 f1 r h Itws first their loved ones In the Sooth. 8psklng, of .the m Bcb;CTltJeled A tristful littW boy growing' mtofunfw oo cooat some set them down In the wilderness, per for n ! Wife, Die beautiful Greek maiIn A Grif. W-tol- d background p pastoral tho-ntvSOf th wo XtoynOo only to meet wjth greater hardden. who I just the oonoeit of her detached viewed fitha at phrases Woato hi eton of tho ort the f : wit hom la podkot ships and suffering. 4 Paewn end mthles husband. aa beautifully Independent of their groups. of what he eon- - . the sir. Th book carries th Bhe. aa were a few of th others reader seiumw ss a peanneia trfweea s Th meeting Monday was fb taserd art. may go un te lo VllelUws. wa touched with through the admlnWrsrions and ba thumb hi In finger,. style m the end ' the door ef Ir regular monthly three presidents, from Polk to Lin-Iof the feolthg of brotherhood nd of an Emersonian a ay of, getting on Aho Salt. lake, ehsatormeeting rBiflcent achievements of th bnmaa of the and tbe suthcr seems lo have , lovk. and Mindly fo'lowd the - The never quellfytng s (hougol enev ' an League.of int chapter been esueht something of the htrmhl eplrt. of of th just Gsiieen, deftly and well. Thto cremsetoue- lion tint rc I 1 only have been Tib- orgamxed tn order to How Utah' the nenole at that time, before the whoso strange teaching wer Just read- - the hlmeelf aua and toward to writers .o u lu this gain benefit professioh- cntte) 'hellion. a enah tn ths ".beginning to mak silv tlirnngh eo-- i flilri to an index o 5 svm. Pino the materia for Harvest pool of connh Ingpoiltfc of til itini In a para-grof the group is to cm tab-ItA f of th Wind waa taken from old . tim. . sympathy without ooce asking for whic-- shon.d prts vacabl Ubrary of tho vofki of Curb Here. also. Is eomthlng of value nearapaner flies, and from d Shor- tIL Tbi library will be housto as Interested listener. to students of th history of tMit ml archives, and; obtained from Grifwin that It in nobody surprise ed th easel room nt ths Art f tot d no rliink fi.tei Wo to to interviewC-g-itnumerous One time. jntrodn-epooling gift personal an Is earnest and musician that fith Barn end all U'tshns are asked A pereon interested tn music. Kansas ploor It IS hlstorlcslly Pilate, who seatnst his wtl! fa fore, hto vehicle Is th cello. He 'feels ed to order th crucifixion Of th accurate arid holds eome useful Incopies or th work of cello and a like all writer of -- the stst to . be kept M- -n speaks thrbugh of Galilee. th fo 's'lon for student. PRIZE FRENCH AWARDED is bis It nl here a permanent collection.. quit sisn'fleant hook. 1) h Resides that. It t thatbook, PARIS. Dec. 3. CAP) Tbe Prix be say nobeiiy but a cellis-AH professional writers-- ' In- - reeine.wi vivid- 1- does thy times movdriy rlowiv. hvt for th of the litmost famous Frances know Gonconri. ran ever wtl -- hShubercV Lnllnihd s, -t hue not vet Joined th rocthcity Mot ent wet pe enthon. devetony ur'tiv. was to awarded today erary prix. Fym phony, if you wMi now t cm ere invited to attend e- ee 1st thy 'f i doe .an holds the rosder enthrflled to yourself .he frit movement of the next meeting, which will be Joseph Peyr for hi novel bang dramatle Olot thee one ia held fsl-- ti'h tta rich and- thrilling held at the Art Bara oa t Lumlexe, (blood and light). that work this review will be saved. - r vr. . - at times. Howard Foarson. January grip-'Tft- Writers League Hears Description Of Bernard De Voto - Gov-ern- or pro-Civ- 1 ' Mark fair-hair- ed l7 ad-ti- re The follewing book will be added to the Public Library Monday: Barbu sue Stalin. Coon M caxnnug Ethiopia and Flight Into Arabia. Deland-- - If This Be I. Factory Organirattoa And Administration. Dohle Tongues of the Monte. FretirVirr Arctic Adventure. Freud Autobiography Giblion Steel of Lmpirr. Jjimrlsre': Strange Ilf and Strange Loves of Kdgar Alim Pos. .Sveheikevl'rh Time PasL h hi.sk - Eat. Drink and Be V err. Right Things Thomas War. No profit. No Olory. no Need. W ebb Texas "Rangers. Winslow, ed Trial balances, Again iversei Erby Thing srfce of Mine fvpfseV W.mtney Through Open Door. Washington journalist. ol -- Mixner from his to birthplace in California In land-boo- . New Books At Library old-cbo- REPUBLICAN concludes hi history of America from 1900 to 7195. Mr. Sullivan probably enjoyed writing' The. Twenties," boy in Washington pofor during tbit period be wai a litical and newspaper circle, and knew Harding, Daugherty, Fall, Walsh and aft the lusty characters in the Harding regime, as personal as- -. Stales Minister; to Tho Alaskan' Klondike where ho took his sbaro of tho yellow dust during tho gold rush, not from the hills, but as a fare dealer, promoter and roulette operator; to Broadway aa a play Tioy. playwright, wit. gambler and as husband of a millionaires wld-oto ths days in Florida; and to the capital of affectation Hollywood where, after antsting the fttnr Industry with his agile mind for a few yeans, ho died, facetious, to the end. This is not a presentation of a moral lesson of what not to do. but la a good view of how tho other half live a thing which perhaps we would like to try our--' elvew. Aided by confidence And tbllity along his chosen lines, ho got by In an elaborate manner. This getting along" was not hampered by scruple against take the suckere money. Ing The pedestal upon which Sullivan 'places tho fabulous Wilson 00 mcre coutd yeo uk? la addition ths atory la laid In England where, of ctftiroe, Scotland Tsrd and the British Secret Service have to Corns Into the picture. , Features of the story era not new. os ths asms situations Tist bean ued time and time -again even by the best of authors.- Tbs handling of the yarn, however, la good with out too many flash backs.. The detective story writer rune Into a tale as strange as any he ever put on paper when he steps into the shelter of an empty house during a heavy rainstorm on tho moors outside of Dartmoor prison. As tbs clo-- k in Princeton town hall sounds the midnight hour It strikes again -The 13th Chime sod the atory . la 'i- Thn romes the prison break, the lnt o iuclion of the feminine lead and the International crook. There af a few ghastly murders, based no doubt on the recent British pi of leaving portions of slain pcfsonsTorsos la check rooms of railroad station a Shetland Yard cornea Into tho but the detective sfory picture writer, plsvlng amateur Sherlock Holmes wjth tho direction of the Secret Service, to slways ons jump ahead of ths London police. Tho atory ends ad you suspect it might and the novelist la rewarded aa you suspect he might tie.. " oracle, - 4. f TVT HAT .BT J.ESLIE MIDGLET by Mark Sullivan; Charle THE TWENTIES, VOL. VI Of OCR TIMES, Scribner' Son; 653 pp.; 13.73. . - semi-comi- - li.ee. BT HARRY D, PUGSLET . Vb HEN the public grasp any' thing that comes from tho press, it is little wonder that what oever ponenci an intereeting aparklo la given a ply on ths book rack of our country. Tho subject of this biography glittered. ' not as an angel, but aa an active participant In those pursuits fro, quently sUackfd by reformers: it. playboy, Oantbler, cynic, playwright,-- de luxe vagabond and other such descriptive Picture this Wilson Mutter who reached hta ths first two decades prlmedurlng of this century. It is commonplace knowledge. that life, a it, exists, is made up of kn infinite number of varied characters. The old category of saints and' sinners. seems la bo tso 'barrow' as If makes no provision for the gradual gradations between these suppos'd extremes. Also, the Uine element in an tndi- iir further complicate vjduai itf K.Jaeobs; the Maiau!aycon;pany; g;.oo;t . R, n; BT ALFRED P. RECK" fleon Coihwn; Claude Kendall and Willoughby by Mark Sullivan Writes An Accurate Account Of The Harding Regime And Little Else THE FABULOUS WILSON bjr Edward Dean Built-vaThe Henkle Company, 324 V ' SUE Political - History Delightful Biography Avoids Old Traditions far-flun- ' eln dif-ere- to . - -- ng n. 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