Judge — March 16, 1929 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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JUDGING THE BOOKS \" HeRY, nursery rhymes, an DY orgy of Riversi Drive murders, several learned and sus pect savants, Ibsen, chess, Bin stein, an exhibitionistie fiend, astronomy, poison, love—are some of the apparently unmix. gredients wh Van Dine’s Murder Case mystery. Philo V, Kapp: slau Bishop his most ingenious ain the monocular ance, pride of Phi Beta drips culture over the htered while he uncerringly smells out the killer. Again Mr Van Dine has writte: perfect shocker. Suggested — publisher's motto: Reach for a Van Dine in stead of a classic. This Strange Adventu by Mary Roberts Rinehart, recounts the melancholic life of a darned unlucky lady, born on a rainy Friday and doomed to misfortunes. gh to shatter a brass saint. A splendid tear-jerker—read it and weep. Or, if your heart is hard, read it and have a good laugh over someone else's troubles. Reporter, by Meyer Levin, comes from a young writer who knows his Joyce, that is James: not Pe Reminiscent of the mid-see of “Ulysses.” it bangs out a sardonic picture of the harrowing merry-go-round of a Slightly s that way Chicago — newshour goofy, but we like | sometimes, Irvin Cobb at His Best. will sive you a ¢ ce to brush up on your Cobb, being a collection of the master’s funniest. The La Grahay r. by Stephen paints a broad crowded canvas of Russian life before, during and after the Great War, running through the Revolution, Excellent except) for the end, which doesn’t quite come off, A Texas 1 Oskison — novel about am Houston, soldier, lover, adventurer, Southern Gen- tleman and “big drunk.” Rome Haul, by Walter D. Ed- monds—the whole shebang of i on the » Canal back in 1850. And very good, too. - -Tr D SUANE JUDG First Serexvist—-What's that you're after? “A Democrat.” Sciextist—The seismograph is vibrating, there’s an earth- | comicbooks.com