The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-10-28
FRIDAY, OCTOBER %, 1921.
PELLEY's NEW NOVEL

"BilP' Pelley, to be little more ex
Iplicit, William Dudley Pelley, who
broke into the writing game while
wrestling with the idiosyncracies of
the Duplex printing press in the Of,
flee OF the Evening Banner, has writ
ten new novel Copies of the book
have not yet reached the scene Of the
writer's early efforts and 1t is there
| fore impossible to impart first hand
| impressions Of the publication, but II
/ has been iavorably reviewed In the |
| literary departments OF some of the |
Sunday newspapers, particularly the
New York Times and the New York
Herald "The Fog is pelley's second
novel, and Judging from the manner
in which it is being received the writ
er has progressed since the days Of
his first book, THE Greater Glory
at least the reviewers are dealing
with the latter effort in a manner that
would indicate an imr uvemeRt in the
Handling OF one Of our big problems,
1.-THE undesirable features of small
communities. The review Of the New
York Herald is as follows:
Several thousand of the several
hundred t.lousand who read Main
Street hated the book. They hated
it because-wel, most OF the haters
could not tell exactly why IL was
too cruelty Photographic. it had no
STORY" it depicted the misery OF
small town life and left out every
thing else. These were some of the
reasons. ii you belong to the Main
Street haters, Incorporated. you are
bound to enjoy "Tae Fog"
That handy little help to book re-
viewers, who's Who in America,
hes net -yet-heard Of William Dud-
ley Policy. But when the Who's Who
editor gets around to it, he will make
some interesting discoveries. Whoa
Who will learn that Policy once failed
III business to which he was not
. adapted; that he began over again
, on low paid newspaper job because
in love with the newspapers proof
. reader and that he still loves her
after a score or so OF years. during
which she has presumably corrected
q lot of things besides his copy; that
he cuts quite figure In Vermonts
lsmall town journalistic activities;
that after four years of perseverance
he sold short story for $50 and that
he has sold many others since; that
Pelley and his wife took a belated
honeymoon trip to Japan last year,
that THE Fog is his second novel
his first being THE Greater Glory.
Like Sinclair Lewis, the author Of
1.-THE Fog" introduces his readers. to
an assortment of narrow, provincial
bigoted small town folks and small
Itcwn ways. His people OF Paris, VT
J are true types, drawn apparently
from the intimate acquaintanceships
: a small town editor makes 1t is q
safe hazard that the favorite occupa
ton of Pelley's townsmen just now is
a guessing contest as to the real life
identities OF THE Fogs" fictiona
characters, for the story swings along
WITH all the smoothness and move
ment of actual biography; the bio
graphy of fictional Nathaniel Forge
Us set down by his close friend, Bin
To make another comparison, The
Fog possesses inspirational quail
ties which Main Street conspicu
/, ousiy lacked, Nathaniel Forge starts
, off in life from next to nowhere, am
after thirty years energies triumphant
from out OF the fog created by a hypo
: fcritical father, neurasthenic mother
common or garden variety OF sister
a bevy OF village bells, poverty, ba'
home training, and q boys size job II