| Show IDAHO PIONEERS ARE Rf OF OFIN OFIN IN fIRST FUST NOVEL NOIEL F Former English Instructor tor Publishes Toilers of the Hills Hills' Toilers of the Hills a novel by Vardis Fisher formerly a member member member mem mem- ber of the English department of the University has been recently published ed by the Houghton Mifflin Company at Boston Mass The story has to do with a man and his wife Dock and Opal Hunter Hunt Hunt- er who leaving the fertile valleys behind them packed their worldly possessions on a wagon and went to the hills of Idaho There they confront such hardships as loneliness loneliness loneliness ness physical misery starvation drought heat storms cold anc and stubborn earth which yields to the plow with difficulty It H is a tale of the simple people ignorant coarse kind and unconquerable unconquerable unconquerable who have made a new country out in the west The book boo has been favorably compared by bythe bythe bythe the critics with Willa Cathers Cather's epic of the West Yest as one that will en en- dure The author is a native of Antelope Antelope Antelope Ante Ante- lope Idaho Vacations spent on his fathers father's ranch in the farming dry-farming country have given him an adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate background to draw upon for material in his novel He was educated in Utah and at the University University University Uni Uni- of Chicago where he received received received re re- re- re his masters master's degree At the present he is a member of the tho faculty faculty faculty fac fac- at New York University His first published work was a slender volume of verse In the future he plans to to leave the t teaching Cl ng p profession f s- s sion for that of a novelist because he considers it the worst nonsense nonsense nonsense non non- sense a writer can fall into |
