The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-30
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN

Lave received word from Mrs.
Il Il John H. Alice, president of the
Indiana Federation of Art Clubs,
that The Art Guide to Indiana" is
now ready for distribution.
Mrs. Alice, in stating the scope of
the work contained in this unusual
guide, writes me as follows:
You will recall that the Indiana
Federation of Art Clubs, desiring to
create q greater interest, a better
understanding, a higher apprecia-
ton OF art, and to help preserve the
best in Indiana, made an art sur
Vey OF the entire state. In the sur
vey are included historic and artis-
TIC architecture, monuments, memo
rails, bridges, gardens, gateways in
254 Indiana communities. There is
a directory of 446 Indiana artists
and Of the Indiana collectors.
The Art Guide to Indiana is
the result of this survey. This hand
book is the first Of its kind, as far
as we know, in the United States"
The guide may be obtained for ST
from the Extension Division of In
diana University, Bloomington, Ind.
Those of you who are reading
Ripleys Believe 1t or Not" daily in
this paper will be interested to know
that Simon & Schuster, New York
publishers, have issued the second
book in the Ripley series. 1t is called
THE New Believe 1t or Not" second
series. Sells for So
TINE winner in today'S book re-
Il view contest is Marie Harmon
tree, 1920 Colorado avenue. She re-
viewed 1.-THE Road Back" by Erich
Maria Remarque.
AS soon as she gets in touch with
this department, Miss Hammontree
can select her book from several on
my desk.
Write your book review, any book,
and keep the review around $50
words or less. Send it to the Literary
Editor of The Times.
Miss HammontreeS review is as
follows:
Amazingly frank. often vulgar but al
ways human. THE Road Back" by Erich
Maria Remarque is a story of restless Ger
man soldiers endeavoring after the war to
forget life in the trenches and find the
road back to their former lives
The plot in the story is slight 1t is a
mad melee of lives thrown together by
war. pulled asunder by peace. There are:
Heel who Joined the revolutionists and
killed his former comrade Max We'll: AL
bert TroSske who sought love in a girl he
thought pure and. finding her not so.
killed the man who disillusioned him and
was sent to prison; Ludwig Breyer. har-
assed by dread disease contracted at the
front. who committed suicide to escape its
consequences: Adolf Bethke, who dreamed
Of home while in the trenches and re-
turned to find that his wife had not been
true to him; Tiaden, who married a butch
er's daughter to insure himself of a full
belly for the rest of his life: and Willy
Homeyer. big and clustering, who at
tempted to find consolation in school
teaching.
There is Ernst who relates the story
who can not settle down. and finds himself
out Of place in all society except that of
his former comrades who tries to teach
school. but gives 1t up because he can not
forget the men he has killed and their
blood. After Ludwig's death, all the dead
rnen Ernst has known at the front, friends
and enemies alike return to him and he
is pursued by that English captain with
his legs blown of and his bloody puttees
trailing behind whom he had killed sew
eraI years before in the poppy field. Then
comes a long illness, health again. and
finally the weary conclusion that the road
hack "will be a road like other roads. with
stones and good stretches. with places torn
up. with villages and fields - road of
toll"
has made peace as fascinatingly dramatic
as war.
Well. well, well and few more
wells. Here is a new one. An an
nouncement reads that The Crime
Club, Inc, Garden City, N. Y, an
nounces the four aces of fall mys-
terry stories. The list includes: Dead
Man Inside" by Vincent Starrett;
THE Avenging Saint" by Leslie
Charters: Murder Gone Mad" by
Philip Macdonald, and The Neck
lace Of Death" by Henry Holt.
A book without an author has
reached a place among best sellers
in twenty-five out of thirty-one
non-fiction lists. The Official Sys-
tenn of Contract Bridge" published
by the John c. Winston Company
for Bridge Headquarters of New
York is the book without an author
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