The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

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BY WALTER d. HICKMAN
IF you want story that is differ
u ent from, the regulation mystery
plots and sex discussions then you
will welcome copy of THE Deputy
of Snow Mountain" by Edison Mar
shall, who wrote THE Doctor Of
Lonesome River" just published by
H. G. Kinsey & Co. Of New York.
Here you meet Jim Logan in an
Alaskan town and Logan is wanted
for murder. Those of you who read
The Doctor of Lonesome River"
are well acquainted with Dick
Grant.
Jim prevailed upon the doctor to
operate on his face so no living per-
son could recognize him. And when
the operation is completed. Logan
was so changed that he was APP
pointed as special deputy in
tracking down himself for murder
This unusual plot has been well
and convincingly told by Marshall.
He gives you Alaska as it exists to-
day under the influence of speak
easy prohibition and judges who
are afraid to combat the influences
of the traffic.
I found THE Deputy of Snow
Mountain" mighty good reading
theater.
Have just received from the
Macmillan Company copy Of
Europe and Our Money" by
LothFop Stoddard, who points out
that "our foreign investments and
our foreign trade have been ex-
panded to the point of disaster"
A. Appleton e. Co. recommends
Mary Leith" by Ernest Raymond,
a story about the mental conflict
of young English clergyman;
Star of Earth" by Octavus Roy
Cohen A detective story in which
Jim Harvey does some clever de-
tective work, and. Spain in Re-
volt by Joseph McCabe.
The Book League of America
announces that its April choice will
be Julia Peterkin's Bright Skin, .
published by BobbS-Merrill of this
city. This is her first novel since
Scarlet Sister Mary"
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Both Oliver La Fargo and his pub
fishers, Houghton MiffIin Company,
have had many inquiries from read
ers asking for the source from which
is derived the title of his new novel,
Sparks Fly Upward" Like many
other titles it is taken from the
Bible-to be exact, from Job ST
The entire quotation reads: yet
man is born unto trouble, as the
sparks fly upward
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Charles H. Sheriff.. former min
lister of Argentina, has been named
by President Hoover to be United
States ambassador to Turkey. In
addition to his many business and
political affiliations, General Sher-
rill is the author of a long list of
books, including "Modernizing the
Monroe Doctrine" and Bismarck
and Mussolini," the latter published
last year.
Mary Agnes Hamilton, who has
completed her American lecture tour,
is spending two quiet weeks in
Rochester. N. Y, before returning
to England. Mrs. Hamilton's Con
LESSONS of an M. p" a glimpse be-
hind the scenes in the drama of
English politics, is announced as the
feature article to appear in the
April number of Harper's magazine.
Next week D. Appleton & Co. will
publish a most important work.
This is Hector Bolitho'S biography,
Albert the Good; and the Victo-
Tian Reign" This full life of
Queen Victoria'S husband is based
on new. unpublished and histor-
lcally important sources. Among
these, ten whole manuscript vol
umes of Albert's letters to his
brother Ernst have been utilized for
the very first time.
Claude Kendall announces that
he has signed a new three-year con-
tract with Tiffany Thayer, who
wrote Thirteen Women" just pub
lished.
Josef Maria Frank has written in
. The World Against Mary" which
Z. Il. P. Dutton & Co. will publish
March II an intensely understand
ing and sympathetic study of the
important question of birth control
{ in the life of a German peasant
woman. Frank is German
pamphleteer. whose Sympathies are
with the woman, and he endeavors
TO build up a series of indictments
against the ignorance under which
thousands Of such peasant women
live out their lives.
Have Just received word from the
. Modern Library, 90 East Fifty
seventh street. New York, that the
library at last is able to offer its
readers Sister Carrie" by Theodore
Dresser. The editors of the Mod
ern Library felt that this Dresser
hook expressed the trend and
Snirit of the literature wanted on