Show j 3 I i NEW BOOKS Reviewed by b y f HARRY I GRACE RACE j i Good books are art like treasured len friend lt i Those who have been reading tho the f I i books reviewed in fn this column must J hove hav b been en impressed with the charac chaise character ter tel of or the writing wilting as ns contrasted with 1 boots books bool s of a year ear or so ago It is this flits R reviewers reviewer's opinion that today todDY the thc 1 bool books s are aie much better written and have here greater reason leason for bein being written 1 than those of or the past two-three two years cars THE EPIC OF AMERICA Al By Ja James Truslow Adama woodcuts l by y M. M J. J J Gallagher pp 3 3 This story of ot the American People I has its appeal in n the absence of bore bore- some dates dates' of at battles and campaigns which so clutter the pages of similar efforts The biographical sketches of ot our leaders are arc not only brief but brilliant bril and treat of men from Columbus to Hoover al and l the life in America in rea- rea reason city town and frontier Theres There's a reason rea son for this book being listed among the best sellers BEY BEYOND ND THE RIO GRANDE By William MacLeod Raine 1 r I do not profess to be a judge rf ct Western Fiction but hut I always like Uko the tho w way y Raine Rains writes them He sends delightful de de- delightful shivers rs' rs along my vertebrae Dies just one passage The passage Tho Mexicans cans were were cre closing in Stumpy was done for Slim might hold the rimrock rimrock rim rim- rock fifteen minutes with minutes with luck ty t Would that be enough ho hov v won won- on- on dered deree Just now the Mexicans seemed ominously quiet SNUG HARboUR HARBOUR By Dy 17 iv 17 tv Jacobs pp gyp 2 50 As Percy Hutchinson says Jacobs Is England's 0 Henry of ot the Water Water- tr front And this Is a collection of or eight fifty of ot Jacobs' Jacobs good stories Some Sarno authors are frequently so lon long drawn in descriptions description Happily Jacobs is not One gets to the meat quickly He has another mother delightful characteristic characters characters- tic that is positively refreshing Each tory story comes to an end different from wh what t the read reader r expects that makes for tor enjoy enjoyment en and anticipation f THE ROGUES ROGUES' ROAD By Virgil Markham pp This book tells In hI great number of or hair breadth escapes kidnappings disguises dis dis- guises and counterplots plots which befell beren the s b s living on the border bez be be- tween Wales tween-Wales Wales 1 cs z and during the thes s cn exciting days in the summer of 1726 V It It dc deals ls with ith the tho lives of Francis Talbot his liis Write wife and nd law brother Ernest Tarrant the scamp Dorothy and nd Neste esto the gypsy girl as well as s Captain and Glanister the villain All AU emerge as very like life figures The Tile Illustrations are attractive attractive tive o and run close o to the story For older boys and girls STAR STAn DUST DUST By D. D L. L Murray pp To Tome me any story of the tho circus is exciting But Dut In this book tho the author plunges us headlong Into the whirl of at adventure and wandering existence 1 j and weaves an exciting story of ot vicarious vica- vica j rious events Ge Georgini t Dufay daugh daugh- daughter I ter of at a n circus man leaves at 18 to toma ma maho o her own way vay way in the circus She j 1 creates a car career carer cr through her cent horsemanship Birlingham who deserted Oxford to fa become bacomo a clown clowns clown's is isa a are raie bit of characterization The Tho story remains a al sorting absorbing or because of ts delineation cf of a sp jih se of life Ute concerning concernIng concern concern- t Ing which l wo we know so I tJ I |