Arizona republican., 1919-06-08

NOTE: During the warm weather his department will be printed oc- casionally Few new books are being published this summer and cognlzance will be taken only Of the leading ones Of the season.-THE EDITOR.D
 THE FOUNDER" Arthur Hodges. 'Houghton, Mifflin Col Here, indeed is a refreshing tale. So captivating is it told, with so little to tell, and so appealing is the spirit of it,-"Dont dare lay me down until you lave fin lshed me,'-that he who attempts to analyze it; to dissect it; to say q word against it's construction and all that that one is wasting time for The Bounder" is the kind of a book that we all like to grab the minute it gets on the shelves of our book, shops.
 It is q story of petty, intimater, per sonal intrigue; a narrative of the trivial professional jealousies between third raters in the novel writing field; an in- terupted chronology of the friendship and love affairs of a third-rate New ork flat building Somehow or an other, you seem not to care who wins which; the love interest is infinites- imal; it's the comedy of the situations that appeals.
 At first, one is inclined to think that Fred Hilbert is the "bounder," and then Peter Watergate appears to be. Fin ally, however, as the true color of Fred begins to come out of the fabric of which he is made, there remains no doubt We are told that @ "bounder' is "an apparently prosperous and in- herently vulgar person of obtrusive manners Hilbert is all of that; Peter is not.
 Fred has made a success of his novel: becomes "cocky;" moves from the flat building, ignores a party" given by Miss St David in his honor; assumes a role Thigh and mighty" and for gets that the very success he has at tained was due to the announcement that this same Miss St David had given nim. Later, Hilbert worms his way hack into the graces of Miss St. David finding that he is anything but sue cess without her help. Largely be- cause she needs the care, comfort and sympathy of man and not finding one more congenial than Hilbert. she IS inclined to accept his serious in- -tentions, shortly after he learns that she has written "best seller. On the night of the betrothal, however, Miss St. Dayid's former husband. now a doctor appears on the scene: admits his former cruelty; Fred is "ditched' Tor him. Fred consoles himself by the fact that Miss St David was not the author of the best seller" but that her name had been used by permission.
 That's really all there is to the story save the following. I append it, rather than include it, for it is comment. not properly a review.
 To those of us who have hope some day 10 see our names printed in gill letters on the front cover of a req. novel, MT. Hodges gives an inside track We need not from this time forward spend so much time on the construc- ton of the book we purpose to write Better. far, get acquainted with the wife or the niece or the brother or the uncle of a publishers accept many in Nitations to afternoon teas: get on in. innate terms with their delinuuencies, cultivate them assiduously and ther lay our course. First, discover jus the proper one through whom to make our appeal; then, having chosen oul medium of approach lay our MSS be- fore her or him and say:
 Please, my dear eff you are on saft terms to use such endeaments), tel him (the publisher) that my first book was accepted; my second rejected and that l am desperately in need O the money
 Then, if she tor he, as the case may be) is sufficiently sympathetic, sh, or he; better make it, a she): vii date up" the aristocratic publishe and put it over" for you. Simple isn't it, when you have the course al charted for you?
 Of truth, one must live in Nev York; and one must remember that Mr Hodges is writing fiction, and all thi may be pure story and not a boni fide guide for budding authors of "bes sellers" We are almost led to won