Judge — May 10, 1924 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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“WHAT ARE ALL THESE KISSINGS WORTH—" by Walter Prichard Eaton perusaL of The Gold Cocoon,” A by Ruth Cross) (Harper & Bros.), inspires a wistful regret that we did not spend at least a portion of our sturm ound) drang perio ‘Yexas, and at a coeducational coll there. Lf Miss Cross is to be trusted and when she writes about Texas she sounds as if she should be the ‘Texans not only dot the detter ¢ in’ loving, bat all the other letters as well. Or, if this literary allusion escapes you, let us simply say that in ‘Texas they Alas! we at tended a cold and strictly masculine kiss something fier north, a ur time between English “2 and the barroom of the Parker House. When Miss Cross’s heroine deserts: ‘Texas for New York and Washington, the nits of her story put consider university in’ the frigid divided ably more. strain on our. credulity But all ends well again, for, in’ the last’ paragraph, “He stooped to kiss away the sall rime of tears.” [xomana is still in the literary ring. novel, called “thelda Dag & Bros.)—a straightaway tale of farmer and small town folks, told not with ironic scorn a first “Inner Darkness.” by gett: Hesser (also Har Comes now but sympathy. Being a first novel, it ends tragically, But Miss Hesser will get over that. She will if she wants to keep on. selling her books. “Inner Darkness” smells of plowed fields, pine boards, dairies, and. lilac perfume. ‘The lilac perfume emanated from the highly Tuey, from ‘Terre sirable person of Haute, and the combination was too much for several of the excessively handsome but less sophisticated males of — the — rural regions. Lacking a ‘Texas education, we should have been a little afraid Cosvo Hasuiron has memoirs. (Unwritten History,” Little Brown & Co.) ‘There was a folks didn't memoirs till they were falling into the issued his time when write their ear and yellow, and had te dictate to their d. last time we saw Cosmo Hamilton in New York he looked about five year les 1 than we do, and he was holding forth as oted granddaughters. ‘The authority on the Generat A lot of he theatrical experi Younger make jolly read lam@ou img, and his stories about bi INTERFERENCE “Station H-E-L-L now broadcasting— ELXZ-GRPQFNZ XXXX?? H-E-A-V-” Station brothers—Sir Philip Gibbs and the handsome Arthur-—are tactfully told But why should he be writing memoirs? It's all wrong, The next thing we know we'll be getting the Memoirs of Jackie Coogan, and worth telling. Cosmo, it’s all wrong! Is “Whar tie Borter Winkep At, Being the Life and Adventures of Frie Horne (Butler) for Fifty-seven Years in Service with the Nobility and Gentry, Written by Himself” (‘Thomas Seltzer), we have seldom or never en- countered so much bad grammar be- tween two covers, nor so little Lo justify it. This book cannot possibly hea fake Only a British thinks accept so much snobbery and see so little limmor in it. J old style, wuld After reading of numberless households where a couple of old snobs were buttled and valeted and waited on and toadied to by an army of cowed and cringing servants, you are ready to give three long che for Ramsay Macdonald as the savior of the British Empire. up O. Hexry Memorial Stories of 1928" (chosen hy Blanche Colton Williams and her committee “Prize and published by Doubleday Page) are out. ‘They mostly suggest the stand- ardized product. of a mill, which, to be sure, has ivy growing on fiction the walls, an efficiency expert inside, and neat, model cottages on the hills The st cut to pattern, easy to forget—all but Jesse Lynch Wile Not Wanted,” which is senti- mental, to be sure, but quite unforget- table and Naturally, it above. » sentimental, 1, and easier liams’s movi didw't get the pri ‘sos A. Minis is dead, and Long’s 4 Peak has lost its best and most famous guide. Doubleday Page, as a memorial to Mills, have just. issued his final revision and enlargement of his “Rocky Mountain National Park.” Everybody who goes to that beautiful spot should have this book, and every American should go there. We trust, however, that the number of visitors who attempt to repeat Mills’s descent of the east p: Long's I pice of h will be limited. Or e| that we are permitted to select those Tt would have been an excellent place for David to send the Hittite down. to make the experiment. TP He akRiVAL of two little books on gardening from the — Atlantic Monthly Press coincides with a nice April blizzard. ardens 1 You can discot gardeners, but oth publisher. (Continued on page 29) ie discourages “Design comicbooks.com