Show NEW BOOKS reviewed by HARY HARRY graci GRACE good bools cm are like treasured friends THIS MANS MANIS WAR by charles F P minder machine qun gun battalion div A E F ggs pp ap those who have read all quiet perhaps perlin ps ings memoirs will ivi ll 11 live with this boy his daily battle front experiences na as lie ho writes mother we were complimented t today 0 for being murderers back home we would bo be hung for it 1 I dont want vant to kill dont send me any moro more money mother an artist and raw rookie in april a cynical veteran in july A human tale it if there ever was one this is a book written as the follow fellow you knew over there would tell it THE FIDDLER OF THE RITZ by armand pp ap who dance must pay the fiddler who danced to the music of armand m and ys violin at the ritz in new york have paid in full measure in the revelation of their true characters old and young kings icings and beggars pass as in a drama tho the book is exciting humorous touching and sentimental says nos hes a fiddler not a writer our impression is that lie he is a success at both alas lie he declares this is his last and first book THE NUN OF THE by bachelor bacheler 6 white pp ap this book concerns the life and letters of henrietta gardner macy the american who spent forty years in venice gabriel gabrial dannunzio speaks of 0 her as that rarest phenomenon a real and true living person the great duse whose friend she was suggests the title the interest the book had tor for this reviewer is in the letters to her friends she paints with words one sees what she writes this is a book I 1 am reluctant to lend I 1 want it handy when blue devils chase THE HAPPY VALLEY by max brand pp ap another western by the author ot of mystery ranch smiling charlie pillar mountain and others the local badman bad man just returned from an eight year prison teim becomes an outlaw four days later for a crime he never committed he escapes through the aid of a benefactor who runs a reform colony at happy valley if there has been action leading up to this event it is nothing to the speed of happenings which climax in good western fashion there is action plenty of action tor for man reading |