Judge — December 21, 1929 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Judging the Books (Continued from page 27) Southern Peggy D’Orsa Adding- ton’s “Death of a Hero,” brilliant k on British pre-war s hardson’s “Ultima ‘ medicated Dreiser sSkippy,” genuine comic; Nathan's “Monks Are Monks,” Shaw's stepson mixes sex, acidity and narcissism; Stout's “How Like a God,” keen introspe Proust's “Captiv more Proustis dissection of love and society; C! “Men i to index Hackett ‘1 what it's about; Dakin's 5 Eddy,” the cold shower of r streams over the glistening lady mys- tic; Beer's “ next year's motto will be: no work"; Asbury's “Carry Nation,” tearing the terrible hatchet-woman apart, very ey’s “David Cop- perfield, or Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” rious And for the kiddies: Dorey’s “Three and the Moon,” Junior Guild's juve- nile topnotcher, with fine design by Artzybashe orge Mitchell's “Ser- geant G * such comic nonsense; merican Folk and Fairy les,” a swell collection, for the sn-ups, too; Verdery’s “Dixie and Field's “Hitty,” for virgins between four and cight. —Tep Suan “Know all men by these presents.” Do Your Christmas Necking Now (Continued from page 9) for not giving her The Facts. She'll know by then the fun she might have had petting the bursar and pashing But it'll be too late; the only ched man on the campus will | Aurelius, down by the chem and he’s cemented to a half-ton slab of granite. Of course, if you'd like to have a Roman general in your 's your business. But don’t whining letters how his smoke gets in the curtains and he stays in bed till eleven, The Economist High on the intellectual list We find the great Who seven da Capitulates and analy Without emerging from Or moving from his casy chair, He can inform the cockeyed orb Just how much wheat it will absorb, And give the acreage of hay For 1910 in Paraguay. The nation’s progress he defines Upon large charts with dotted lines. He knows how much the people spend. Zconomist, weck advises, He lays statistics end to end And pictures, in his lighter moods, The future of herbaceous foods. * 8 His skill withstands the daily test, And yet the trick that he does best Is to explain, to farm and town, Why stocks and bonds are up or down, Tf the: Good re low, he can descry reasons why they should be high; If they are high, he likes to show Proof that they really should be low, Knowing that t constant flight, Eventually will prove him right. He'll say he told you all along— Economists are never wrong! —Sropparn Kino in the Spokane Spokesman KOWARD LANGRE PRINTING C0., INC, JAMAICA, NL Te comicbooks.com