Show ID ah A h NEW IDU 0 VS M Je reviewed viewed by HARRY GRACE good books are like treasured friends THE GOOD EARTH by pearl pear B S kuck buck 1 75 pp ap wang tang lang is a chinese peasant whose choso passion Is mother earth never for a moment does mrs irs nuck permit the reader to wander tro 11 this mans desire for land and more land it transcends his love of family and his gods from poorest tiller of the soil to wealthy landowner it envelops him it is china and the life in china through famine and flood lean years and full and written as though these people in a far oft off land were our own neighbors harry hansen declares it remains the best novel of the season SEA CHANGE by eleanor M crecia mrs airs kelly pp ap A delightfully well written aritte novel with machiavellian situations terminating in logical and lively fashion kits vincent leaves america to torget forget a broken heart being an impressionable pres able youth he falls in love with jasmin a beautiful princes sita but he perforce is engaged to another place this pattern on the frame of a charming new locale known as the island of majorka weave the warp and woof of age old spanish customs and entwine the whole with music romance love and intrigue and we conclude another such fascinating book as bas auerle or the book ot of bette both mrs kellys former successes REDHEADED RED HEADED WOMAN by katharine brush pp ap her type is known in every town she consorts with the caddie master blaster tho the local bootlegger uses them as stepping stones lillian andrews redhead red head daughter of the renwood railroad crossing classing man la Is stenographer to the son of tho the richest man in town steals him from his wife and marries him impasse local society shuns her but new york AU AH in that metropolis ot of bluff and bombast she finds welcome and her ultimate objective I 1 enjoyed this story as much as I 1 did miss bruchs young man alan ot of manhattan THURSDAY APRIL by alberta pierson hannum pp ap what a lovely name one just knows she is from the mountings mounting direct descendant of british pioneer stock she marries at fifteen at thirty a mother ot of nine girls ketch me a boy this time demands joe her taciturn husband her next born are twins another girl and hall a boy a helpless cripple her very soul seeks one kind look deed or word from joe she gets it when after thirty five years waiting he calls to her through her death tog fog tho the longing striving working yearning ot of thursday april suggests to me a fettered lark HIGHER CO COMMAND by edlef koeppen hoeppen Eo eppen pp ap although I 1 have had enough ot of war books this gripped mo me as nothing else I 1 have read adolt adolf rel alger a student volunteers as a german artilleryman its not a pretty book it narrates tho the harsh unvarnished truth of cruel realism of fire and flame and the carnage of savage combat the descriptions of the bombardments acro aeroplane plane tank and gas attacks are arc vivid realities lived by a boy who went through it all and as he concludes for what its MAN reading men do you icart t any of tuse or any other current bookal simply phone or write the office of this paper we will have them sent COD parcel post direct to you plus regular post fees postage pre paid |