Judge — November 1, 1930 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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UDGIWG“BODKS out your note-books, men—Prof. anc is about to lecture. All exits will be locked, so make your gets iways now. Here ge ene that delicately-balanced — bridge tween two ages of comparative sanity, is probably the most difficult period in the human stretch to write about. Writers cither get it or don’t and it takes about two full reading lines to prove it. Tarkington might have been 1 great writer on younglings, but he was too big brotherly and condescend- ingly cruel to youth, He was having 1 good laugh at its expense. The Alger school is awful on the theme and the Little Men writers ought not be slowed to suffer and be put out of their misery. Twain, however, was t at it. His striplings gambled, k, smoked, played and were neither Galahads nor Villons but nat- iral, flesh-and-blood chaps. A newcomer who proves his right to come into the lodge with Twain is Norman Lindsay, for his capital pic- be- ture of Robert, a typical but not I" youth, in “Every Mother's Entangled in his niggling, picky, bird ned Australian family, Robert rebels in a perfectly normal way. He is as restless as mercury, sneaking off nights against his moth- cr’s wishes, to drink beer with the fellas, talk deep and play sophomoric pranks, Vacillating between the stars ind the hayloft, he writes rotten. po- etry and proves his manhood with the uirls of the neighborhood, bringing on more rotten poetry and Interesting Conditions. His actions may not meet pproval of your pastor, they are that real—but we gave up trying to please pastors long ago, Cm Van Doren, the head man of the Literary Guild, has under- taken to show the writing boys what 1 Guild book should be. It’s a little thing Mr. Van Doren tossed off him- self, and it would be a great thing for the reading public if a lot of budding wuthors read his book several times. Tho not a Guild selection it should have been, It's a biography of Jonathan Swift the 18th century master of the razz herry, and one of the most my figures in the history of Englist erature. It takes nerve in a biogra- pher nowadays to admit there’s any- thing in his hero that stumps him, but Mr. Van Doren explains Swift only where explanation is logical. Unless you know all about Swift, ind you know you don’t, you should find this book full of amazing stuff. As an example for Guild writers, how- ever, it has one drawback. Mr. V Jan Doren has been working on “Swift” for twenty years, and the book shows it. You can’t run a mail order book business very long on that basis, and it's a pity. Oo» Nat Ferber, the dean of Hearst literary criticism, has just sp a year in the South of a beret and composing grand manner:—"S In it he takes the old incest theme and develops it ina way that would make Sophocles jump off a dock out of pure envy, The story is set in a little town in the Catskills. When the Civil War breaks out, all the men leave home ex- cept three, and these hearty fellows take care of the situation so well that when the Boys in Blue come marching home they all find little strangers crawling around their homes. Then a gang of quarrymen hit town, boarding around at the farmers’ houses, and they do the same thing all over again. This makes a lot of mis- cellaneous brothers and sisters around the place, and when they get together, there’s real trouble. The story moves along fast and Mr. Ferber juggles his hundreds of char- acters nice In spots the book is little reminiscent of the genealog chapters of Genesis, but the biblical resemblance stops there. “MMe Cuancine Years” is a sort of autobiography of Norman Hap- good, who was and is one of the best journalists this country has produced. It's a more critical, less detailed book of memoirs most, and makes high readin, 4 Hapgood | exciting ca- reer. He was on the Evening Post (the Old Evening Post) under God- kin, he edited Collier’s when it was the most influential paper in the coun- try, he advised Roosevelt and Wilson, | / he was Just Like That with M. Twain, Wm. James, and such. He even re- members good things about Hahvid. He quotes a nifty of Roosevelt's which we'd never heard: T, R. was at a dinner in England when Lord Bal- four asked him what he thought of Bryan, whom Roosevelt had little use for. “Mr. Bryan,” he cried, lifting his fist into the air, “has a brain—" (here the fist began slowly to de- scend)—“of three guinea-pig power, —and when I say three—” (the fist banged the table)—"I exaggerate.” Mr. Hapgood doesn’t write like an old cozy pining for his youth, but as if there were still plenty of shots left in his locker. It’s too bad there aren't more journalists like him. —Tep Suane rr A GAME ey GEORGE S. PARKER A radical change in games—a new fascination—an intelligent de- light! From out the glories of the past come forth again the Knights of CAMELOT to fight their fields once more! Two forces of knights and men confront each other in the center of the board. Jump, canter, capture, smash with a Knight's Charge, and clear the way through your opponent's forces to his goal! 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