Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
AMezg Book From H. c. WelIs-7HeC Case o f
Jack LingIe, Chicago Reporter Short
Stories ofthe Younger Generation, and
Edna Ferber s NezU Novel,

Ious, nor friendless And surface foes too
swarmed around it. Trade jea2ousies and pro-
fessional r.valries are ever active Not Of neces-
sitY vicious but active, very.
Yet the Tribune went on its way hunting
for one man, the man who shot Jake Lsingle.
point in the pursuit becomes most inter-
esting and significant. You may be sure that
the trial gathered evidence against Jake Lingle
himself He, too, was crook" He, too, pulled
in barrels of dough" through betrayal of his
job Served him right" You know the lingo
of counter accusation. Well, it is all here,
And this is the point at which the Chicago
Tribune held to the logic of its own fine in
telligence to the purpose of its original intent
1t was following man, criminal, accord
ing TO the evidence of many eyewitness
That was the man the Tribune wanted and
was going to have. All the rest, for moment
side issues, to be noted now and brought to
book later. That, it seems to me- is the triumph
of this criminal pursuit. That, and the clear
skill Of John Boettiger in steering so direct a
course through so much of bewildering detail,
in rounding q vivid drama out of the number
less incidents and aspects of criminal life in
a great city. single thread, knotted tangled,
inter linked with thousand other threads, yet
here is a straight clear story of absorbing in
terest. vivid chapter in the annals of crime
in any place, at any time.
AMERICAN BEAUTY. BY Edna Ferber, au-
thor of Show Boat" etc. Woodcut Decora-
tons by Rudolph Ruzicka. Garden City:
Doubleday, Doran g. Co.
CONNECTICUT gives background to Edna
- Ferber's new novel. It's theme is the in
vasion of this New England commonwealth by
Polack immigrants, born lovers and cultiyators
of the SOIL These, in passion of zeal and
thrift. take over little by little neglected acres
of the natives. New England boys leave the
farms for less arduous demands And every
where neglected land areas promise Ell Dorado
itSal tn he MT of he
business of this whole matter then the true
theme Of the novel, becomes the gradual cross
breeding between Polack and American A sort
of cross fertilization, to speak, which may
account, may not account for the title,
chosen by Miss Ferber as means by which a
rose has gained supremacy in the entire garden
of American flowers.
However here are marooned New England
girls, self-urged toward love and marriage.
Here are lusty male foreigners at hand imme-
diate outlet for such instructive impulses.
Nothing needed but time to secure a COM
plete blend of blood, temperament, outlook
tradition habit and all the rest of individual,
and collective racial trait. And Miss Ferber
comedies time to the process, several genera
tons of time.
The story such, growing by pictures,
episodes, little panoramas of scene and char
acteriStic local customs, really gets ON its way
by the return of old True Baldwin and his
quite modern daughter TO the birthplace Of
Baldwin. A rich man, with not much to do
any more, he wants to see the old place, to
find out how the great family Of the county
had come in the long years since he q
no-account, went away to seek fortune and
found it, Old Jude Cakes, who lived in a
mansion and owned thousands Of acres Well,
Candace and her father found what was left
of the Cakes tribe. Not much. From this
point on the concern of the author is to bring,
in good order and interesting incident, the
gradual blend of alien and native for the
making of another new stripe of American
citizen. Romance, not overfervid but very
consistent with its setting crops out now and
then. Indeed, one is obviously on the way
between the most modern girl and q quite
personable and stanch Polack-American that
has arrived out of the picturesque "show-boat-
ings' of Edna Ferber in the tobacco fields Of
Connecticut's experiment in mixing human
strains for new product
DELLA-wU: Chinese Courtezan; and Other
Oriental Love Tales. BY Frank Owen
author of 1.-THE Wind that Tramps the