Judge — February 28, 1931 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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AUDGING§ BOOKS 4 Mix loyal but somewhat astigmatic “Qvravine Wir Revations” is a you've read them) in “The Story of Judaism of Ludwig Lewisohn is piece of good red entertainment San Michele.” For, crowding his luck in to the fore in his latest, “The by that interesting anomaly, a woman — on the first, which was a tremendous t Days of Shylock.” It is the novelist who is at once competent, success, he now issues “Memories and | story of the great bargainer picked versatile and brilliant. We refer to After the rich feast of Wi up from the point the trial ends and — the glishwoman, Rose Macauley, Michele” this book suggests ad is done in the usual smooth, literate who may never have written a great nothing more than nuggins, grubbins | and praxitelean-seulpted styleof Amer- book but has never written a dull one. and_ table-droppings of what Mr, i one ica’s most conscious Israelite and pro- ‘This time her story is of a novelist ad left over from breakfast \ Vein | fessionally unemployed college profes- who attempts to classify people as years He should have known i i} sor. However, again Ludwig has not types and fails. She does, however, better. We don't know of a single in | 1/8 | written a book about his title as much — get at the essential eccentricities of | stance where a man had more than i ni as a book about himself and the prob- human relations against the heated one auto| shy in him, der } lem he finds it to be a Hebrew ina luxury of the tropics. Qucerly, in Horn" is an example. It was swell— | goyem world. Again, as before, he at- this idea, the book suggests Conrad, but who can bear the thought of the |) ini tempts to solve all racial difficulties However, she is no magnetic Pole and — innumerable deadly sequels. This kill- | i! by insisting the Jews go back to Zion. does_not press heavily on the loud pse that laid the gold | 1 t All this, mind you, is concealed—tho pedal nor does she pound the key- clear case of publishe hie! not very skilfully—under the cloak and board so melodramatically as did the ©—but somehow we cannot ¢ ] i suit of a historical romance. It fails maestro, Her theme is slighter, hee ly forgive Dr. Mur i to satisfy. tune gayer, her touch lighter, her pro- from Miel he seemed a fel | However, while Ludwig's plan funditics not so forte. Possibly, too, low of such nicety and restraint, wed would be a very fine thing for the her people are more recogni never have thought it of him—no mat j Christian gentlemen in the clothing Conrad's were so faraway from plain ter what his publishers demanded. >) business, it’s hard to sce how the Jews city folks like you or the groceryman, Shane on him, would benefit by it. Since they are Witty, Miss Macaulay never sinks to supposed by legend to own the United the merely clever, which, we would (Caite sorrixas—"The Rembrandt States why should they bother with a like to impress on you, is saying a Murder” starts well but grows a puny place like Jerusalem? If Otto basketful. bit maudlin in the love scenes, hence Kahn, Bernard Baruch, Julius Rosen- we can't tell you how it ends; “The J) wald, or the Guggenheims would be W: te to pass out the word. But — Black Ghost” is imitation E Wal- | content to be mere Kings in Isracl Dr. Axel Munthe has pretty lace, that is, if anybody can imi | after being Emperors in America, nearly ruined for us the thought of | Mr. Wallace any worse than he him- [—) they wouldn't be what we don’t call what a perfectly splendid set of — self; “The Dressing Room Murder” is J) dopes. memoirs he wrote (and we hope (Continued on page 31) { | j 1 | | | | i i « 4 The street repairer looks for a lost collar button. , 28 comicbooks.com