Show Standard-Examiner Standard Book Reviews Edited by Maurice Howe vo GLANCING O LANCING back over a literary season It Is depressing to note how much Is la written en and how very cry little of or Importance said Frantic youngsters groping for expression seek to analyze their own young emotions others try to 10 adjust a atypical atypical typical 1 modern woman to her new world or to present married and unmarried couples under varying circumstances of a chang chang- changIng changing ing society Most of oC them succeed In being little more than general general- generalizations generalizations some hint at capacities for characterization character and some be betray be- be betray betray tray unusual stylistic talent Few seem capable of ot broad and em enl embracing embracing bracing canvasses and fewer seem desirous of catching the spirit of or orthe the times IDEAS 11 5 58 AS 8 INFLUENCES Only one that we recall was truly big That was the translation translation translation tion of Thomas Manns Mann's The Magic lIas Mountain the two vol umed labor of ot many years In to a n d i F. F 1 t tI Y Storm Jameson has lies written The Lowly I Ship around nn Idyllic theme which ideals were dealt with on a n. large scale but pot In the forced forms established by II H. G. G ells Wells or Upton Sinclair Ideas hero here are not dragged ged In as arguments ar but butas butas butas as influences upon the characters Sinclair Lewis' Lewis Elmer Gantry proved a n bit exciting Sylvia Townsends Townsend's Mr Fortunes Fortune's Maggoty Mag- Mag Maggott gott was a n fine job In delicate irony Edna and Edwin Arlington Robinson seem to fight it out for poetry honors the most readable of oC the plays seemed to to us I to bo be Robert Sherwood's Sh The Road noad Rome nome to of the many mystery tales we liked best Jest Tho The Marquis do Boll Boll- bar har and T. T K E. I Lawrences Lawrence's r. r Ile Re Revolt volt olt In the Desert easily leads the tho reminiscence rt list of the he blog- blog raph Trumpets of or Jubilee seemed the best b st job HIDING IN COrr Og Toward the fag end of oC the sea sea- season season season son an Important writer of oC tho the American scene appeared In 11 O. O E E. whose Giants in the tho Earth Harpers gives n a. a Nor Nor- eye view of or tho the struggles of his own people In the Dakota prairies Dr seems to have e been hiding his light In a a- west mid professorship professorship- and with his discovery ery Is It became b ramo known that th t for or some time he has been enjoying a 11 wide public iq II Norway The the Book Boo f Club we understand has selected te his novel no and the tha critics are are using the tho word ord epic SEE A bit late wo we get around to Thyra Sampler Winslows Winslow's People Around the Corner Knopf I a a. collection of oc ort stories w. w char char- character character acter studies studies' and andI vi I Her pictures of ordinary folk tolk arc ace a so 80 vivid and true as to be depressing She starts out with a 11 healthy pessimism in her sleeve As All she goes along she meets the tho stenographer stenographer stenographer the suburbanite tho the peo peo- people people people of ot tho the subway and of or your our own town town and and you OU recognize them at once Most of or them are too true for tor your our Immediate com com- comfort comfort comfort fort for at any moment you OU may get gel h h. i slant at yourself and wrig wrig- wriggle wriggle I gle le In your chair for Mrs l Wins Wins- Winslow Winslow low does docs not nol spare spare them She lets them supply their own rope ropo rOl o for the tho executions It Is not so much the tho dreariness of or their lives 8 that she points at that at-that that Is la more the tho manner of o and anti the thc Russians but Russians but of their complete disinterest In rising above tho the mediocre m and and their Inability Inability to tt t do do much It They lack imagination I and arc are pitifully dull Some Bome do attempt the achievement of or a n. adream adream dream but lack the power powe to to get far and tho the comprehension to go about achievement ement FOH Olt TILE THE LADLE LADIES e eThen Then there Is Is' a new novel by hay Storm Jameson who ho In Three Kingdoms won the particular interest of or women readers through her h r presentation of a womans woman's conflict when faced by love of oC oCher her hers man her offspring and her work Her Ht r. r new book ls 1st The Tho Lovely Ship Knopf and beyond the theu u m pt of loves u and mar mar- mar mar- there Is s an un Idyllic theme having to do with the shipyard rd In which Mary IG Oarton Garton played as U asit rt it child and Rn which at nt tho the age age of or 20 0 she ahe falls fails heir still heir still dreaming of or the tho the beautiful ship she eho one day shall build bulI Working Bullocks Viking by Katherine Pritchard Is dom dominated dome by th personality personality of t. t Red Burke BurIca who battled the Australian bush Here Isan author who well knows the bush country find nd plc-i plc lures turcs It strikingly Y y yA A CRACKER E WI i iThe The Tho Glorious Adventure Bobbs Merrill Dobbs Dobbs- by Richard Hal Is the second of this young oung mans man's Juvenile Ju reactions reaction re from his travel adventures adventure Ills Ills- other book The Royal Hoyal Road noad to tot Romance Is we are arc told some some- somewhat 1 somewhat what of or a It best seller and the handsome hero Is Is quite a n figure out of oC the autographed auto copy COP I circuit 1113 smart smart wise wise- wisecracking wisecracking cracking attitude altitude has put us quit out of or patience with this young oun man though many seem seen to fancy rAney this and his entire 1119 to us epitomized d by the tho picture on the covet er Jacket where ho h Is b shown with chest purred puffed out and fingers In his vest est standing on on the fhe 1 ruins of or the Coliseum Coliseum- N. 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