The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-18

, over Harold Benn Wright; it is the boast of others that they have never read him. Each lot, presumably, is | justified according to it's lights, per | haps according to its deserts. Mean while, MT. Wright remains an exceed | ing1y concrete figure in authorship, oer- l tified to by best selling lists and the | tangible evidences of generous royal l ties.
 l For three years MT. Wright has so to 1 speak, rested on his typewriter. But now, with the opening of the early fall season in fiction, here he is again faithfully ours, with The Re-Creation l of Brian Kent romance of the | Ozark country, illustrated in colors by j. Allen St. John.
 l In his new book our author has gone | back to the form and formula which, in
 That Printer of Udelrs,'' and "Ihe l Shepherd of the Hills" first led him into the profitable paths of uper-popularlty. There is wisdom in this return. The semi sopfistication cf such story as "The Eyes Of the World' was not for a con- stituency which could find cause for TO- joicing in The Calling of Dan Mat l thews.' MT. Wright regards again, we 1 assume. the slogan of his publishers,
 The great heart of the reading public is ar unprejuuicedi critic and aiming
 for that heart he will charge his pages
 hereafter, as in his early a heretofore,
 rather with love and redemptibrf tha,f
 witt, social problems and scandals.
 Brian Kent, of whose recreation we
 read iii the books in hand, has betrayed
 a trust in Chicago and appears in the
 Ozarks a fugitive from justice, broken and desperate. He drinks all the whisky
 he has with him and takes to the river
 In ar oarless beat, trusting to the rapids
 to end his misery. A whim of the waters
 brings Brian up against the bank at the AHrtfa Ate, -.
 he has been discovered and taken into
 the little log mouse on the shore Auutie
 Sue herself attends promptly and prop ierly to his dire needs. From the minis
 tration of the silvery-haired teacher.
 friend te all the region. Kent emerges,
 no loager a wreck, but man full Of istrensth and purpose. eager to regain
 his self-respect. worthy in the end of the love of the rich bankers niece.
 "The Re-Creation of Brian Kent a
 novel Of life and love in the Ozarks is
 sweet and apnpaling in it's pathos and
 vibrant with the local color of "Thi
 Shepherd of the Hills" country The story is rich in philosophy, charming in de-
 scription. masserful in character DOT
 trayal, tense with dramatic action. Brian Kent. AUntie Sue, Judy and Betty Jo are ! more than creations-they are actual liv-
 ing human beings. There are thrilling in cidents related with such vivid realism that one reads with breathleS6 interest l And yet the fascinating power of the l story is rather in the clean cut analysis | of life and character, and in the skilIful , visualization of the clash and conflicts i of iife's invisible forces out of which 5 the thrilling incidents come.
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