Judge — February 20, 1932 — page 33: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

EOS ~~ j — Then | | | TAKE YOUR SCOTCH | | CAREFULLY | JUDG | BOOKS | | Vit a typewriter between our | knees, a Maxfield Parrish sea | stretched before us, and a tropical sun 1} beating down on these deathless words as they gush forth, it is not with us this week to dig too deeply behind the printed word for literary thaws, shortcomi and lap veace, This Florida is no ¢ io critic. Criticism needs Northern @ reac zy and spite. Energy and spite sight In the ire not ours this week. We'd even be i kind to a book by Ethel M. Dell. And by my Aunt Kate's galluses, there is . COMMUNICATE win KETCHAM nies Dis “Silver ‘Belitet” (preaiine | General Agent, 11 West 42nd St., New York His the Tot of the “ster “ican” | { LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN } recommend “The Silver Bride, RAILWAY Dingdong Dell, without the slig st } tinge of the bellyache. Only we don’t OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND ntend to read it. kings servations from any tourist agency that knows its job. | \ Jitav we have read and are prais- } ing in this sunniest of moods "Puen there is “Safe Custody.” by even willing to afford a home to any ind climates ineludes, first, “Mary's Dornford Yates, someone whom — nice-looking, sentimental germ. Neck.” by that original historian of | we rather vehemently called to your Not that Miss Fishback’s verse is the Man from Home and areh-god ittention last summer for a grand de entirely concerned with amours. Her papa of American adolescence, Booth — teetive novel called “Adele & Co.” lively rhymes, which have appeared larkington, This may strike vou as This one follows the expected Yates — from time to time in this and other of b | curious, formula of a glittering diamond set in the better journals, give numerous For what with one thing and an atin mounting, but as usual we must — glimpses of New York, from Sher- other, mostly another, you may reeall forgive it beeause the diamond g man’s statue in the plaza to a chest- | our slight) surfeit with the recent ters so magnificently. Here again we nut wagon in the West Thirties. In , nickel-plated works of the sage of In- meet the thoroly respectable social addition to an easy technique, Mule. dianapolis, Never a serious writer, lights indulging themselves in erimi- Fishback — ha what the art crities dl Tarkington's efforts in that diree- nal and exciting acts in order to foil might call Vitality. Unlike some of ty tion have resulted in foul balls, How evil and avoid bri x in the thick her lady contemporaries, she doesn't | ever, here in “Mary's Neck" we see a police. Tho “Safe Custody” lacks sound as if she were writing on the | welcome reversal to the old milien the “Berry” character, the clown ex- morning after, with her left hand in } o ind form ‘Tarkington knows and — traordinary of the other Yates prize a box of Tums. She sounds as if she | works best—the middle-class, middle- pieces, it has a consistent drive. had youth, boy friends, vitamins A to } | Western, small-town family, the one Z, inclusive, and one or two illusions | that lives in the suburbs of Zenith. TT contention furthered in recent of the better sort. | “Mary's Neck” telly how John years by lady writers of light verse | i capitalist, big love is a kick in the slats is amus- N ot omust we forget “Arizona | | ig Ill. takes his for the first twenty pages, but at Ames.” by none other than Zane | « |) family, including two of the most de out the top of y 21 the maseu- Grey himself, the Alexander Dumas | ightful) Tarkington debs you ever line reader (at least) begins to feel of the West. This, too, we praise knew, to Mary's Neck, a moderately — faintly insulted. Ms t Fishback, highly. Anyone who can consistently, fashionable Maine summer resort. whose first. book, “I Feel Better year after year, me millions of men The incidents pursuant on the fam- Now,” flatters the male reader by and women imagine they like the ily’s successful attempt to adjust it- giving him the impression that love characters they are absorbed in, are self to the summer colony makes a isn’t bad at all and that it takes two dressed up in chaps and ginghams and series of the lightest-tinted short sto- — weeks, or maybe three, for a complete — foiling the mad men of the deserts, is ries that makes what passes for a recovery. After that (we learn) a there, and we don't mean maybe. novel. girl is k in circulation, ready and —Tep Sitane | at comicbooks.com