Judge — May 30, 1931 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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AUVGING§ BOOKS I’ we seem a trifle excited this bright spring day, excuscitplease. You we've just returned from a trip thru the interior of Brazil: the Chaco, or Green Hell as they call it, and our heart still pounds at the shuddering memory of those jungle hours. Hours of portentous stillness, of soul-sap ping heat and the ghastly horror of unseen eyes ever watching with silent hestility from behind a leafy curtain of death, (You can tell from this last sentence we're still shaky.) You, too, want to get in on this? Well, then, run, don’t walk to your nearest bookshop and bay, borrow or steal a copy of Julian Duguid’s Hell.” It is adventure for ill, and you can follow the trail of the Conquistadores from your armehair, and we're fully aware we sound like a book blurb as we say it. We mean it. Duguid, who is that rara avis, an explorer who writes like a stre: nd two pals left England to follow the ) trail thru the Bolivian quipped, inexperienced areless, they take risk after risk ind emerge on top. They face the most terrifying situations with all the courageous naiveté of the amateur, Which is the fascination of the bo for we can all see ourselves doing the same sort of thing, making the same xreenhorn mistakes, but winning thru by natural wit. Later they pick up a Russian tiger-trapper along the w and he proves the Kit Carson of the party, his sage counsel, fortitude and cheery, warm symp: s saving the little band over and over in from gumming their works eternally. The spirit of amateur camaraderie is something to marvel at, each member of the party proving his mettle as a Good Companion. You see, there were ho newspaper men along, and no one felt himself a celebrity, and there was no necessity for camera hogging. “Green ov will probably jump up and down with pleasure to know that 1 visiting Englishman has called on us, carried himself like a gent and de- parted without in the least trying to add to our native conception of the silly ass. Moreover, he has gotten us right in a good fat novel called “Juan in America.” And we might all y him the retort courteous by reading what he has to say and being duly grateful. Most English literati, you know, cither come with the trappings of the messianic heaven-sent to dish lot of What’s Wrong With ca; to clutter the skyline with snoot; or to flatter us so bootlickingly it makes you ick. But Eric seems to have fact, crary Linklater, cutting himself a out any throat attached. country coast, sampling of all ou since Nie ian intelligent, sane human being before he is cluding over with mouth-open wonder. sees us Jand, irretrievably lost cut loose apron strings, barren wishes come asa kind of high-class bum, with 1 penn'orth of literary self-con- se yusne: ss toa stone of ‘im. us. So we wonderful, blind to the happening More Persona untrumpeted, unsung; in glorious find his * in conception Julia a ntly lit- but cbviously dropping in on America, generous slice with- He does the from ly, we it’s that supe thing to say, he picaresquely coast to home-grown es, with the amed. And soundly on the truth. Mencken anything else, in- British, Juan looks they. the us He suburb of since we Mother Country's nor as a large piece of intellectual Utopia which he to fertilize, but as a Howevee. even not as a forlorn Paul doubt and Champions” as contemporary won't hold water. from the ureat, Q.C.f motor cruisers are sold by the following distributors: Albany, New York_ Fast of Amityville, L. I. Babylon, Long Island Boston, Mass —— L. R. Mack, Inc. Harold's Yacht Basin ‘Wayne Frost Adantic Radio and Marine Co. Chicago, Ilinois ———= Ward A. Robinson Cincinnati, Ohio Ohio River Motor Boat Company Cleveland, Ohio— = —N. J. Shea Detroit, Michigan= Leonard i. Thomson, Inc. Galveston, Texas —= Robert Sealy Hartford, Connecticut F. W. Williams, Inc. Huntington, Long Island — Chas. A. Gould, 2nd Newark, New Jersey— Griggs Sales Company Newport News, Virginia —C. P. Amory New York, 217 West 57th St. =Q.C.f Marine Salon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Harris, LeRoy & Clark San Francisco, Calif. — John G. Rapp Corporation Syracuse, N. Y.— Syracuse Motor Marine Corp. Washington, D. C.—— Stanley H. Horner, Inc. AMERICAN CAR and FOUNDRY 247 WEST 57TH STREET - 17 by Morand the king his new a gigantic p American life, Despite (Continued on page 29) country, fairly great sense of drama and and beauty power to him, hold zards of dishing it out to that surround this cour sensitive, are in But Linklater had some made what it was all about before he opened his ink pots and he sure he knew said it directly, and with strict regard for the and hardly have said it better. What say we take could Nor have it like men? Lewis giving Mons. benefit of the “World ble of the book Morand’s GNES COMPANY NEW YORK CIETY comicbooks.com