Arizona republican., 1919-01-26

the little ones, according to this pre- scription, but, isn't it pretty?
 TANG OF LIFE" is another Henry Herbert Knibbs' book, published last year, but as new today as it was then. We called him Harry in Los An geles, at the Celtic Club, where he and Ralph Cool a coming Pacific Coast poet, made merry together. And, when think of Harry Knibbs' l cannot but be reminded of overland Red" and 'Sundown Slim To me, these two knibbs books are western classics, equal to Bret Harte and Hamlin Gar land, although Of a different class. But, Tang of Life and 1 really hate to write 1t, is not up to ''Harry's" inim- itable previous efforts. But. in spite of that, IL may be said for KnibbS that he can fall long ways short of both his previous stories. and still be super -eX- cellent when he portrays Arizona life.
 Jim Warins is typical; Lorry is over orawn slightly; Bud Shoop is q gem of flctlon; Dorothy is as natural as her type always is, aI the minute she and Lorry first meet, you know, from the ] knibbs warm manner of their intro i duction, that they are mated. When ! Lorry steals a kiss and pair of hugs from Alice Weston, the disturbing city element, you seem not to have the l slightest concern but what he knows 1 that she is ''stringing' him.
 Of course, when an author makes fiction of some of the stirring days O. ! Arizona, such as the 'Bisbee deporta tion," bringing us face to face with conditions that We are presumed to know more about than the writer, We are, naturally, prone to cavil at inac- curacies that are monumental to us while not material, one way or another to the tale. We, as Arizonans, of course resent the imputation that the saloons ! had to be closedf' during that trouble when, as a matter of fact, Arizona was q dry state" at the time and nobody could get a drink. Get that? Further
 more, we shudder when we read that
 the l. W. " headquarters in Phoenix
 was plentifully supplied with money
 and ''whiskey"
 You really love the handling of the
 activities of the Forest Rangers. o1
 which Bud Shoop was the chief anC
 Lorry a deputy; you follow them ovei
 the rims of the hills; into the pine
 depths out into the sunset land; along
 tumbling streams and across plains
 that are deep with snow. You seem tC
 have something personal at stake
 when Waring "goes to get the Brew
 ster boys. after they had killed hi.
 partner. Pat. You warm up to the rec.
 onciliation between Jim Waring anC
 Mrs. Adams, his wife. You find in he
 the typical hotel keeper of the Arizona
 railroad town. You revel in the shoot
 ing matches and keen rivalry in othel
 sports, that cannot fail to engende
 competition between ranches that migh develop into uglier things.
 Last of all, when knibbs really get
 back to himself, it is interesting to si
 in Bud Shoop's office, when he is fram
 ing his letter of resignation. prepar
 actory to entering into politics. That i
 really so good, you almost lose tn final Hove interest" that makes Lorrl and Dorothy life mates. For $1. .5C Houghton. Mifflin company is offerinj real merit in Tang of Life"
 G. HERB PALIN is an advertisit.
 man: has a wonderfully fertile brain
 and has accumulated a neat little for tune hammering sparks off the any of his genius. These sparks he sells a slogans" to business houses. You a know what that means. But, you d not all know what money getters these same business slogans are. Her does and that's why he gets ava with it."
 But, there's more to Herb Palin tha that. I have known him for some tim been "chummy' with him, in a wa, and have always believed and do nov that c. Herb Paln is a POET. I hor estly think that long after his bushes