Judge — August 10, 1929 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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2UDEWG=<BOOK | | Fev8ts8 Scorr has proved her- | + self a staunch little super- woman with “The Wave.” She's not only invented a new literary form but stuffed it with an adult substance that bespeaks — the almost masculine energy and genius of a George Eliot. La Scott's novel is entirely uncon- | ventional. It sports neither hero, moonlight hugging nor tailor- made book ingredients. The Civil — | War is the plot, basic form or what you will. On the war is | strung the reactions of a thou | sand and one individuals, Each | individual is caught at a point where the war affected him most. bringing out his best or worst (mostly the latter). Each glimpse and incident is terrifi cally revealing of human char acter under stress, as patly put a short story but act : chapter in. the | wa hus, cunt nAPEOnee ; quick kaleidoscope comes a ser- KEEPS GETTING ANY 7/7 Z mon from a southern pulpit, « SMALLER / - restless night with Lincoln, a 1 SEDO SEs 1 condemned soldier's last hours, — | Grant before a battle, a Polack, a madman in a booby hatch, two hating comrades in a sea battle, a sewing circle back home and so forth into a m a mounting into pressionistic war. It is an ing book. More fulsome, human and com prehensive than the ablest his- | We were especially In mother’s day ladies carried hat-pins for defense; now young ladies suggest this neckpiece instead of summer furs. reping, im- of the | NAW, THIS. i} So . BABY FIRE- ? CRACKER WILL DO DE amazed that a woman could know TRICK! so much that was true of men on the battlefield. “The Wave” is hard reading. It contains no literary tricks for easy assimilation. It is unlike any historical novel ever written, being neither romanticised, glori fied or hokumized. (A x =] Q NEW SIZE SAFES Too 1,000,000 GERMS LIVED ON AN OLD BilL- DOES IT MEAN A HOUSE SHORTAGE & There is just enough drollery to Will Rogers’ “Ether and Me,” a brochure on operations, to make it worth reading. Even then don’t let us urge you. For, were it a little poorer, we might this minute be writing about How America’s Leading Humorist Is Feeling the Pinch of Ye: ful, Will. The trick is in know- ing when to say “No” to yourself. —Tep Suane EASIER To WIDE THE NEw BANK ROW comicbooks.com