The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

BY WALTER d. HICKMAN
THE name of o. Henry is just as
Il much alive today as it was
twenty-one years ago before he left
this world. Many letters have
reached this department asking for
a book about this mans rather
strange and unknown life.
D. Appleton and Company have
Just published THE Caliph of Bad
dad" which is Arabian Nights
Flashes of the Life, Letters and
Work of o. Henry" by Robert H.
Davis and Arthur Maurice.
ISAAC DON LEVINE, author of
i the important biography of
Stain" published by Cosmopolitan
Book Corporation, has this to say
about the system: years Of
study of the Russian revolution, of
all of its isms,' of it's collectiviZa-
ton, Standardization, Fordization,
tractorization, and other social slo-
gans, have made of me an irrepfes-
sible individualist, and a firm be-
lever that creative thinking and
human progress are possible only in
an environment where the individ-
ual is not crushed by mass control,
mass psychology"
XXTHAT fiction are they reading
wv in New York City? Bren-
tano's reports the best fiction sellers
as THE Road Back" by Erich Ra-
marque; 1.-THE Good Earth" by
Pearl S. Buck; Ambrose Holt and
Family" by Susan Glaspell; Years
of Grace" by Margaret Aver Barnes;
1.-THE Glass Key" by Dashiel Ham
NETT, and THE Square Circle" by
Denis Mackall.
You've heard of dog eat dog. In
his new book, ''Kachalola, or Mighty
Hunter" Morrow DR.. Sidney
Spencer Broomfield tells of cannibal
eating cannibal, although not by
choice. A tribe in'New Guinea cap
tured and ate four of DR.. Broom
fields men. In retaliation he forced
the natives to cook and eat their
own witch doctor!
q n
Farrar and Rinehart will publish
on June Is "Ho- Hum" q collection
of news breaks from the New York
er, with a foreword by E. B. White,
illustrated by o. Soglow. For those
in doubt as to the meaning of the
word "newsbreak," Mr.. White ex-
plains.
Brentano's, publishers, have just
brought out in this country a new
French conversation book specially
designed for the traveller who al
ready possesses a basic knowledge of
the language. Brush Up Your
French" written by w. c.. Hartog,
relates in French and English the
adventures of a young couple tour
ing France. The book was origin
ally published by the London Daily
Mail, which has already sold over
10000 copies in England.
On June IL, William Morrow 81
Company will publish: Lady With
a Past" by Harriet Henry; Sara
band" by Eliot Bliss; Under Cover
Man." by John Wilstach: "Kacha-
lola, or Mighty Hunter" by Sidney
Spencer Broomf1eld, and THE Shad-
ow of Henry Irving" by Henry
Arthur Jones.
THE Martial Spirit" a study of
the Spanish American war. by
Walter Mills, is the June choice of
the Literary Guild. To Mills the
Spanish-American wa was an
amusing episode that perfectly il
Illustrated the inef1iciency of all wars.
Another great travel book has
been catapulted into the scene and
for real travel literature" you
should not miss I'm Egypt" by John
c. Van Dyke (Charles Scribners &
Sons, $2.50l. Professor Van Dykes
graceful prose is keen and reveal
ing with sly traces of humor.
TN the fiction line, you will find
L refreshing change in "Valen-
cha" an exotic love story laid in
Spain. Leon Tahcheechee has done
we'll and his book is both sophisti-
Gated and dramatic. Coward
Mccain. $2.50)
or course, We we're bound to
~ arrive at Nook's mystery cor
ner. Thrill seekers have their
choice of four new fine ones.
First is The Hangmans Guests, .
by Stuart Martin (Harper & Bros,
So. It's about a huge stolen dia-
mond from the African fields. 1t
will send chills down your spine.
Next is The Three Cornered
Wound" by George Dyer (Houghton
Mi1lin, So. It's an excellent muir
der tale. Quite original, too.
The Evil Chateau" Sidney Hor-
Ter (Alfred A. Knopf. So with its
scenes laid IN romantic Cannes and
an eeris chateau is fine reading,
even though a bit scary.
Helen Simpson has done we'll in
"The Prime Minister Is Dead"
Doubleday, Doran. So. Dermot
Bcyne gets himself in a pickle, him
Just engaged too, and things look
bad for l. ]. until. Read it your
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