Judge — December 19, 1931 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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AUDGING™ BODKS |m Universal Joy Week, "re not going to be a floopy old crooge and do a lot of panning. In- d we're going to get into the holly spirit, sink back in front of the fire place, have the old retainer shuffk periodically with a series of rams chauffés, and as we stroke the head of vorite slave, run through the prics of the recent books we've 1, purpose: a Christmas gift list. The list is so designed if a book is selected to suit the receiver's 1Q and it will be read with relish and and not be guest-room decoration, TT! being taste, used as a ion, Pure and Otherwise Highbrows, Sophomores and nee Seekers: Mme. Woolf's "artistic art which we didn’t understand, but which don’t question; Evelyn Scott's endar of Sin,” a two-volumer dissect- ing a few dozen generations or so of American family; Faulkner's " realistic realism in’ the s stark as star! Aldington's “Colonel’s Lady, satire on the English booboisie by a bitter fel- low; Dane's “Broome ages,” 700 well-done pages of the history of a re family of the English stage; msun’s “August,” good, regulation Hamsun. caustic Free people like you and me: Buck's “The Good Eartl grossing epic of modern Chi Kennedy’s “Return I Dare light observations on chronic wee! rk-ender: Williamson's “Dream of ir Women,” the usual beautiful ing and sentiment by the Shelly of English novelists; Bronte’s “Wuth- cring Heights,” Random House’s won- derfully decorated reissue of _ this timeless woman's novel; Cronin’s “Hatter’s Castle,” a peach of a blood- and-thunder meller written like an old - fashioned classic; Marshall's achy’s Miracle,” a on the Church 5 ism; West's “All Passion Spent,” well-done Belasco comedy Maugham’s ikes and Ale” and st Person Singular,” there is one writer and his name is Maugham; and of course Priestly’s “Good Compan- ions.” Pearl Not, English social Biography and Autobiography Taxe your pick, the “Emma Goldman, self, the gal who'd rs than resident; cess,” by Mr. Grand Du “Noguchi "re all good: by Emma her- her be right lucation of a Prin- Nathan's secretary, the hess) Marie; Eckstein’s " life of the great Oriental ic; “The Life dia Pinkham,” lieved in’ control Times of who be- and the lady at birth if not in birth control; Strachey’s “Portraits in Miniature,” more of the prose jew- els of the King of Biographers; Ber- covici’s “That Royal Lover,” a good job of nose-thumbing a Jimmy Walker monarch; Andrews’ “Gandhi” or the Man with One Sheet in the Wind; Trotsky’ 3 and, of course, the best ones of the year, “The Auto- biography of Lincoln Steffens” and “Lives of a Bengal Lancer.” Humor Fx Sutuivan’s “Broccoli Old Lace”; W. 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Jacobs: Harbor,” a masterful the old salt’s great Hum,” those Ne ks; Van Every’s or the Police G sentable » home; Wodchouse's “Big Money,” Damon Runyon’s “Guys and Dolls pbel’s “Burley- cue,” the history of that relaxation of the intellectuals, burlesque; and Crouse's “It Seems Like Yesterd nostalgic whiffs of w sw the days when a leg was a limb. and Snug collection of yarns; “Ho- Yorker news Sins of Amer- ette made pre- Miscellaneous tt kinds, studded with Jean's “The Sts in Cours simply Cox’s “Dogs of Today, on chiropody; Ditmar's Animals I I Known,’ inside dope 1 » Bronx Zoo curs tor; Sullivan's Pre- War Amer Hindus’ “Red ” the real McC oy on the Five-Y Buck's citing animal - capturing; “Men in Art, competent history jewels: Their ly stuff; not a book “Strange absorbing Craven's comprehensive and Percy Crosby's “A Cartoonist’s Philosoph H The Washington Merr: -Round” and “Mirrors of 1932,” the dirt on the tity of Skulls; Wilson’s “Axel’s Cas- the most important book of liter- sm of the year; Reboux’s neh Cook Book,” Rockwell . by E.,” great travel stuff; 's “Mexico,” the whole truth about the tamale nation; the new American Oxford Dictionar. ond Believe It or Not Book, “Mr. Fortune Speaking,” “The Dutch Shoe Mystery,” Yates’ “Adcle & Co.” and Hammett’s “The Glass Key,” myster- ies, more or less good; Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw's correspondence ; and the Decameron Dollar Edition. And a Merry Christmas to Mr. Bobbs-Merrill, and how gifting us with a new pair of ey —Tep Sna you, about |Commander Evangeline gy te SALVATION ARMY t] hos over two thousand centers, always open, with a welcome © &'| for the poor and distressed. In normal times these outposts of social welfare minister to the limit of their capacity. During the past year the work of helping and healing has in- creased almost beyond calculation. Men and women who never before knew pov- erty have been added to the ronks of the hungry. Ashamed, bewildered, they have sought the aid and advice of The Salvation Army. Thousands of homes have been saved from ruin. The unem- ployed have been fed and clothed, turn- ing a menace to society into an asset. cAn Even Larger “Program is ‘Demanded Chis Winter The contribution of The Salva- tion Army to the solution of the un- employment problem in national | emergency relief, Christmas baskets, family welfare and a dozen other forms of assistance, will cost over $4,000,000. We Rely on Our Griends to Give Us Ghat cAmount HOW MUCH WILL YOU GIVE ? Mail your contribution today to Booth NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS of THE SALVATION ARMY 120 West Fourteenth Street New York, N.Y. or, if you prefer, to your local resident officer, Gifts may be allocated to any specific purpose or district. comicbooks.com