Life — August 6, 1925 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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sesitaneneal EE Ee oe Wh NO Life and Letters (Continued from page 21) recommend “The Polyglots” to you, and I strongly recommend to Mr. Ger- hardi that he get busy, and give us something else very soon, because he is one of my favorite bedtime story tellers. Havinc a passion for curious infor- mation amounting almost to Mark Twain's, I read all the tracts that come my way. It is usually impossible to re- view them, but this week I feel that your attention must be called to “So- briety,” by Edgar Cole (Meroduk Pub- lishing Co.). It is an earnest attempt to abolish drinking in America, an at- tempt in which a spade is called a damned shovel. The reader who occa- sionally mixes a little gin with some fruit juice and quaffs the combination will be somewhat shocked to find him- self casually spoken of as an inebriate. There is an unconscious admission that there may be some pleasure in imbibing, tut when the author says that “rich men. laugh (from their daredevilry as law- breakers, and this parenthesis is mine) when they drink illicit gin,” he is going a step too far. I have heard many sol- vent citizens curse bitterly whilst drink- ing illicit gin. If the prohibitionists had not forced that adjective on liquor, it would be of much better quality. The moral of Mr. Cole’s preachment —and you can believe it or not—is that love is the only way out. His publisher has offered a prize of $100 for the best review of “Sobriety,” the contest clos- ing on September 30, but of course I shan’t get it, justice in this world being what it is. P.S. Mr. Cole’s argument might go a little stronger with a great many people if he did not use “like” as a con- junction and speak of “anachronism” Baird Leonard. ‘anachorism.” Recommended Thunderstorm. By G. B. Stern (Knopf). 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By a Lady of Quality (Doran). Naughty, but delicious, and the talk of the town at the moment. Seducers in Ecuador. By V. Sack- ville-West (Doran). Showing what happened to the psychology of a young man who developed a_ penchant for wearing colored spectacles. Brave Earth. By A. T. Sheppard (Doran). Romance in the Sixteenth Century, The Crazy Fool. By Donald Og- den Stewart (Albert and Charles Boni). No book to read if you take seriously what Lord Chesterfield said about audible laughter. Mrs. Dalloway. By Virginia Woolf (Harcourt, Brace), Of the new school, and therefore going round the corners of its characters’ minds. A best-seller amongst the sophisticates. The Painted Veil. By W. Somer- set Maugham (Doran). A_ splendid account of a woman who paid, which is still going strong, and deservedly so, on the stands. Jungle Days. By William Becbe (Putnam). More of this popular ex- plorer’s experiences in foreign parts. Azrael, and Other Poems. By Robert Gilbert Welsh (Appleton). Poems by the late “Bobby” Welsh, af- fectionately collected and edited by Charles Hanson Towne. The Smiths. By Janet A. Fair- bank (Bobbs-Merrill). A__ first-rate American novel which should not es- cape the attention of those who deal out the Pulitzer prize next year. Unrelated “So that's Senator Bunkum! a man of letters, isn’t he “You bet! Honorary degrees from darn near every college in the country.” “But I mean he's very well educated, isn’t he?” “Oh, gosh, no!” Quite Mr. BuckNer announces that here- after no attempt will be made to prose- cute persons carrying flasks to private social gatherings. Now is the time when all good men will cheerfully come to the aid of the party. Horsemen have their own ideas as to the features they like in a saddle. We are offering a spectal service to horsemen who desire a sadd re not only ma rials by expert but are correctly de- signed by graduate horsemen. WHITMAN Made ta U. 8. A. 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