Judge — October 5, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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» Riciarn Arpineton’s a young British intellectual head and heart full of re- gainst all shapes, smells and ages of hypocrisy. In_ his “Death of a Hero” he takes out most of his grudges with a thunderous big-bertha attack to the body soc You'll protest his endless strafing of folks and things, but in the end you'll have to admit the boy hates well and usually rightly.” His book, like Samuel Butler's “Way of All Flesh,” is meant to cut thru fat and does so with a ve ance. Be- sides, little kiddies, under it all the Iad’s hiding not — Black Futility nor a Broken Heart but a terrific passion for living. And you can't hang a man for that. He uses the life of a your Britisher as his instrument. of protest. His “hero” stands up ina trench in 1918 and absorbs a load of lead: purpose suicide. He traces this life back to its roots and shows how the softening in- fluences of British women, ham and sham have driven it to this horrible end. Not a prett ty theme but a mighty, » and tragic one. Not e flower of a book but a penetrating, honest, clear-think- ing and heady one to m: the gods weep. A young man’s theme and book, in other word complex, exuberant, brutal, in- tolerant but always sincere. Aldington’s observation of people is uncanny. He writes with clenched fist. He tells every- thi What a pity the pub- lishers operated on him, putting in asterisks for vitals. Certainly you've read) Dr. Howard Odum’s ‘Rainbow Round My Shoulder. If haven't ve got that to do first. It’s a capital book. Then you'll have Dr. Odum’s newest “Wings on My Feet,” also capital. It takes Black Ulysses, tough dinge out of “R.R.M.S.” and sends him thru the war, recounting his ad- ventures in a shuffling, coon-shout- ing stvle. The rhythm and in mate accuracy of the black man reactions are there in a magnifi- cent swinging beat. Tey Siaxe JUDGE Hesnaxp th’ country? “Romaine or Russian