| Show NEW BOOKS reviewed by HARRY GRACE goos good books 1 erf I like rrex red friends I 1 SCANDAL IN THE CHANCERY by Dl diplomat pp ap chuckle provoking adventures of redheaded red headed dennis tyler in his auls mission of delicacy ho he is dispatched by the secretary of state to europe in an effort to have his friend ned saylor return the cash of the F franco ranco american friendship fund and to dispose of mlle mile desbrosses of the follies bergere I 1 dont know who diplomat may be but lie he knows knovs his washington his paris and tle the intricacies of state department led tape the talo Is handled in a rollicking lighthearted and sophisticated spirit FOUR HANDSOME INTEG by J R baptist pp ap when a certain ship of the early portuguese pioneers was feeling her way down the african coast during the golden age of eastern exploration she took aboard four young regresses neg they were to be well tended and adorned says a chronicle of the time and then sot set ashore at tour four points of the uncharted coast as emissaries of trade and the cross beneath the tragedy which befell these women lies something of the whole tragedy brought to black womanhood by the first impact of white civilization with savage africa the book will be interesting to those who enjoy speculative thinking DONA BARBARA by gallegos pp ap heres an epic of the south american plains it portrays the stark law of might as we know it in our own early west of the fight tor for civilization against the tropical jungle fevers and floods of the in deans belief in witchcraft where fathers sell their halfbreed half breed daughters against this background Is laid the story of dona barbara a beautiful and attractive daughter of n white rivern irn rn and an indian squaw and of her rise to poi potter or over the superstitious peons geons along the upper reaches of the arauca araica river A WHITE BIRD FLYING by bess streeter aldrich pp ap another delightful story of prairie life by the author of A lantern in her hand it Is americana in the second and third generations from the pioneers in one of the great prairie states laura deals ambition is to write and her mother has influential folks back east but ambition Is one thing and love another she finds her career and her man in the homo home town founded by her sturdy grandfather to me this is a different novel its as clean as the windswept wind ind swept sunlit prairie YOO HOO prosperity by eddie cantor and david freedman 56 pp ap there comes a time in matters of mournful event where the situation borders on the ludicrous that time Is about ripe in this period of depression which everyone seems to bo be enjoying eddie cantors timely hilarious economic treatise brings the laugh through the sour wrinkles As he says many businesses are bettor better oft off than ever take red ink for instance who use it or as in his own case he writes before the crash I 1 had a million dollars a house three cars and tour four daughters now all ive got left la Is five daughters do you vou avant any of these or any other current bookal simply phone ephone or write the office of this paper we ave will have then them sent COD parcel post direct to you plus plu S regular post office fees postage pre paid |
