Show JL Lt It j AUTHOR ELIMINATES SELF ALTOGETHER I j j FROM BEST BOOK IN MONTHS DI DE tL WEST 01 Or THE PHIl WATER cATER TOW R Anonymous Har- Har Harr Hary y r per POT t S Bros Oth Others rs briefly mentioned are Jre are Dim Lantern bv by Tens Tens- Tem Tem-h pie Ill Bailey Penn Publishing PubU Co Studies in North At- At lica Af-lica by Cyril Grant Dut- Dut Dutton Dutton ton Dut-ton ton Men fen of o the Inner Jun Jun- Jun tIe by W V V rAider r F Alder Aider Cen- Cen tury lury Casual Wanderings In cu ador cuador bi b Blur Blair Niles Con Con- tur Do Down Doss n the by Fullerton Waldo aldo lAn Macmil-lAn Jan A Beachcomber in the tho Orient Orlen by Harry L Foster Dodd Mead BY J W DEAN r- r I 1 v ORK May S o West of the Water ater 10 I 1 oss owe e c I is the time best novelI I have base read in months month The lImo discreet way to b b ln a n criticism cism ism of boo book play 01 ot picture I Is the indirect wa w wai Summarize It its s virtues and nd it its ses Compare it with plas pias Or pictures And thru give your opinion The process Is re reversed In inthis inthis this instance West Vest of the lie Water Vater Tower Is recommended nd d without hem or hai ha haIt It toils teIs a story it re reveals reseals eals life 1 with without Ith- Ith out restricted by the s viewpoint on In any subject ct That Thal ems to me to be the lie essence of good story telling toiling Too roo many of our books are arc only far or passIng isms complexes and fads The rime h beginning of the story may the rauer Gu eu Plummer dell a high school In the church of Ills his father tather Rev Adrian Plummer lie He is at- at attracted at attracted by the time way ay the Ibe hair curls about the cars of ot Bee Chew I pret pret- pret- pret prettiest prettiest girl In the class Ss anti and daughter 0 OZ Charles G Chew foremost citi- citi cn of Junction Cit Mo io and an This sort bort of o mal material is lS familiar In fIctIon It I is also alo familiar In life liCe limo Ibo lomance of o boy and girl pro pro- pro proceeds I eeds in a 1 way ay that lead leads the time reader to believe e he ho I Is ls about aboul to be stilted by another levelling exploration In- In InI in In InC C u I Bex e 1 ho SO 0 common In cur cur- current cur 1 I j rent no noel novela el r rl's n ls this instance the se se phases phase's phase phae s 's 1 necessary to the story the story Be se hase 1 h e is necessary to life But nut as the story grows the mental phase I fit ascendant As the boy bov and gIrl I matume c they seek seel to sol solve sole e the per per- per ile er- er of ot life In general and of theIr own o lives In particular i 1 he hole is a picture of the time gro growth groth th ot of otI I character otI I Each lach character In the book lIves t livest Adrian Adnan Plummer Charles G Ches Che I IDes Des Dessie e Arnhalt and her father Cod CodI I Dugan the room pool proprietor Ed Dd Hoecher the commissioner mer merchant mer chant and others are not s secondary figures The are all part of the picture If It I 1 were ere to visit City tomorrow I woul would immedIately I them est West ot of the Water Tower is by byan n bya-n an anonymous author Ills His book Is IsI I to which to be ashamed I itin sure the author is a man The look book is a man s book A correspondent at Wilmington N C recently asked me to saY something nice about The Tho Dim Lantern Temple by Bailey Batley lime DIm Lantern is fiLth on the list ot of 10 best besl sellers as compiled by The Bookman Bookman That s something nice The be no novel 11 is ad advertised as a clean 4 A I book Six women are arc among the authors ul the the 10 best sellers rs The other tl tle fise e ave e Dorothy Doroth CanfIeld Wills Willa Cathel Gertrude Gertrudo Elizabeth and Morris orris If It you ro re still Int interested in travel hooks after arter reading those e discussed last week you may find merit In ini Isome some of ot the following Studies in Africa is Cyril Grants Grant's of ot tra travels els in a land landof landof ot of Sand Rand that seems to stretch out ont Into infinity the ruin rum of three gr great at civilizations gold old the also also thi glory ot of the golden hue hare h ue over o the desert and the yellow vellow sand gleaming in the sunshIne Men of ot the Inner Jungles is the stOry of ot W v I r AI Alders Aider's ders der's to the hunting head D ak in Borneo Blair hues Mies iles tells of ot majestic moun moun- mountains mountains and p peaceful alles In Cas Cas Cas- Casual ual Wanderings in Ecuador ton Fullerton WaId Waldo a Id sets sels down Isis hIs ImpressIOns of northern Canada Canada Canad a bind aland of gold gushing gunning oil I I I missionaries and traders la In Down the Mackenzie U M Mi own Is Harry I L Ios oT 4 i Cot Uk UkI I Bi OTh Giral GUY TI BOY IA lf H I C E 5 P Characters in West of the Water Tower as by Artist E It It Oni i ter r a 3 A Beachcomber Bp in t the On- On Oneat Ori Orient eat ent There is zestful restful ad even in following the Britten ritten I ac-I ac- ac account ac account Bangkok count ot of o hIs bis visits to Saigon Bang Bang- kok Singapore and I |