Show A BOOK RET 01 OLD JULES it won the atlantic prize ot of a cash ash award of 5 and wag was Belet selected ted by the book of the month club as the outstanding publication at that period so it must be good before one reads it one knows that it baa has been accepted as a well yell written vol ume nine of merit and it Is well writ ten frank keen true to the life as seen and lived by the author and such a book as those interested in western conditions will want to read for its informative value says the new yorker about the volume old jules Is a perfectly unsen ti mental life of her father bv marl sandoz old sandoz a awls came out to the nebraska sand hills in 84 and began to ruggedly individualize he lie more ore out several veral wives fought the land and cattle barons and made the wilderness flourish some will think him an unpleasant old tyrant but there Is no denying that he and savage indomitable pioneers like him made the west miss sandoz tells her story carefully with no attempt to prettify the barbarism of much of its atmosphere clifton fadiman critic in the new yorker the west was wild no denying it but sandoz came late to see it run ning in full spate he saw just the hang over when the first fury and wildest lawlessness was fast being overcome but he did se see the cattle barons grabbing land putting up job on the loddies and certainly he did lid see corruption in officialdom he fought with a sv iss vetella rl tie in the crook of his elbow As you go into the factual story how warmly you grow 0 o admire the well written fine workmanship of the daughter marl marle marie but a long time before the book is finished you could wring the neck of old jules if the book Is considered from the view point of an exposition of the building up of a bare country it Is a faithful exposition of all the hard ships the bare feet the scanty food the hard work the blizzards the dust the drought the crop failures the pettiness of man his neighbors himself all this Is faithfully given reading a true life accurate in detail and of sustaining interest if you read the book in its sec see ond aspect as the biography from a daughter daughters s hand of her father and the family life it Is a laying bare of what Is too often smirked over globed lied about or withheld but this able writer gives it in detail holds your interest and carries the reader along but all the while you itch to see old jules get his corn com ings his ne edings and just when you think you d like to do it ybur self you remember the rifle in the crook of the elbow and think better of your noble resolve he lie bombarded washington he bombarded luther burbank he got up quite a distant reputation and went to horticulture shows and got honors he made the nebraska sand hills bear an orchard grow berries he achieved a certain tame fame but b t all the time how he did browbeat and bullyrag his family until as they got big enough one by one they either got away or ran away and poor mary the heroine of the book how she suffer suffered edt mary was mother of marle marie a tine fine hard work ing self effacing wife and mother of a big brood who finally asserted at a late period her rights not to have more children not to bear his ways but to talk back when old jules dies and the book ends you pick up then a curr rent issue of a nebraska newspaper to find marle marie honored the faithful mother made a person ige attending a banquet with the governor the bo upstanding big fine hale successful men with the rewards of success you feel that it Is well had marie sandoz written a luke warm conventional vapid evascu A usual father fathers s life her book would have sunk to oblivion but she dared the big venture to write it as was true even to the edge of that she could bring herself to 11 li bare family secrets and paint a father in his true colors without whitewash over the glaring colors of 0 f a life not to I 1 e held as a model to p pattern attern one s life after the book Is good marle marie has won a merited recognition and all read ers rejoice that marle marie rose through sheer merit merl from untoward circum stances from conditions under which all but the extra able would have sunk to defeat to financial reward to a position of respect and above all that her tine fine mother now live to see her ber orm a source of income in which she can share her sons capable and her daughter in tle it spotlight of merited recognition the book Is at the delta library it la Is a relief from the cloyed veur osseful adulation so usual in pioneer atory aal an I 1 of a father especially and it faithfully portrays just what hardships tell fell to the lot of the etorly settlers of nebraska the unvarnished realism ot of th the 0 book I 1 is what makes it a book of the times not just another eulogy |