Judge — July 6, 1929 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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a —-— SUDGWG™B 00K I’ you're not the better man for | I read John Cowper “Wolf Solent” we'll eat a copy of it (it's in two volumes, | too), as well as these words, in ing Powys has written himself into immort. we might as well break up our typewriter and go back to our od trad man to a book- blurb writer! Here's how it stacks. Like Hardy, with whom he compares, Powys has cut himself a slice of gland, Dorset in his pination under the micro- Unlike Hardy, who peeked at yokelry through the fogbank of ‘a self-hypnotized tra Powys sees the sod and its crawl- ing humanity four-dimensionally, at once poct, philosopher, drama- tist and Proustian, Many more- sided than Hardy, he'll probably outlast the sturdy old Jad in im- portance. His introvert-hero (model 1930), Wolf Solent, is his meas- ure of all things, wandering ma- sochistic through the rd web of hates, lusts, loves, deaths, goods and evils, so quaintly termed the quict country life. Wolf has a lot of trouble settling a pair of two-time loves which with masochists, they finally settle him. Over all this brood- ing haman drama rests the lovely aura of old E nd, most beau- tiful countryside in the world (Los Angeles Times please copy). Strange that so much hell can be raised in such glorious surroundings ! You get the Solent” isn’t farce in the Wil- liam A. Grew manner. Nor is it gloom written in a Dorset out house. It is, for all its melan- cholic mood and dream-like sub- stance, the most stimulating, com- plete, freshly written, profound, mystic work of its stripe since “The Path ” Tt may take a month to re require more than the use of the eyes to absorb. But you won't regret having applied to its pe- tusal some of the time ordinar- ily devoted to the soaking up of the little sexy things of Cyril Hume or the pwitty nitten-not- tons of the literary bushwahsic that infest the nickel magazin —Trep Suane that “Wolf ity with a classic, | beset him. As those things go | d properly and will | “ONE MORE BREAK LIKE THAT, DOBBIN AND YOU LEAVE THE TABLE.” Allthe guests were on horseback at C.K.G. Billings’ little affair at Sherry’s. The dinner was in honor of “Lou Dillon,” one of the nicest bits of horseflesh thatevercame down a track in the 80’s. The tables were seven feet high. All went well till the salad arrived, when the horses tried to eat the lettuce and asparagus tips.* Today, as in the 80's, Melachrino adds a bit of distinction to every occasion. For fifty years this cigarette has been the favorite of those who love good tobacco. You can be sure that Melachrinos will provide new smoke-enjoyment for yourself, and a real compliment to your guests. *Ref. Valentine’s Manual MELACHRINO CIGARETTES 1879-1929 — 50 YEARS A LEADER QUALITY STANDS THE TEST OF TIME Ask Your Dealer About Melachrino’s Golden Jubilee Gift Package 10 for 15¢ Large Size 30e Do You Play Bridge? Then Clip This Coupon The Union Tobacco Company 7.6.29 511 Fifth Ave., New York City iaiaie Gentlemen: Please send me your Melachrino-Bridge offer of (1) 60 Melachrino Cigarettes—Cork tips, Straw tips and Plain ends, (2) the score pad with the latest rules of contract bridge, (3) two packs of the famous gilt-edge Congress Cards, free of any advertising, bearing my monogram, $4.75 value, for which I enclose my check for $2.50. Initials. Name-...-—<—— $$ $$$ $$ $$ $$$ $$ —_________ Address__...--_________-—_--_-_----------- 0 States OTHE Umion To@Acco Companr