The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-27
The Book World

CTANDING in the very front rank CT America
~ younger literary artists is Josephine Johnson
whose first novel, Now in November" was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miss Johnson has
just produced a volume of short stories, Winter
Orchard" Simon & SchuSter; $3.50 which is
not just book written TO capitalize on Fu-i~zer
Prize fame
Winter Orchard" is every bit as good as
Now in November" and qu probably will
strike many as being even better. A prose artist
Of almost amazing ability, Miss Johnson has
the power Of making her readers actually live
with her characters
One Of the best stories in the book is
Arcadia Recalled" the tale Of three little girls
en- a visit to a farm. Actually, the readers
mouth waters and one can almost taste the food
on the table. One recalls similar days in the
country and relives them all over again.
Miss Johnson is an artist Of unusual skill and
power Any one who wants literature can have
it in Winter Orchard"
NOTED as one Of Americas happiest poets,
Y Arthur Guiterman proves himself far more
than that in his newly published book, Death
and General Putnam-and 101 Other Poems
(Dutton; so.
Mr.. Guiterman reveals himself an earnest
lover of the great outdoors and in Heritage"
he makes an eloquent appeal for the restoration
of Americas wasted lands.
master of words, the poet has always had
the knack Of making words do whatever he
pleased and in this volume he reveals a few
of his choicest tricks. For instance there is
This Is She" Here's how it goes:
And first we'll consider her eyes
Alike as to color and size;
Her winkable, blinkable,
Merrily tWinkable,
Simply unthinkable
Eyes.
Then having A moment to spare,
We turn our attention to hair;
Her tendrilly curative
Tunbly-and-whir
Super superlative
Hair
And he goes for eight stanzas, merrily
making words do whatever he pleases. Is it
any wonder that people read Arthur Guiterman
and look up grinning, feeling bright and airy.
It's the ideal book for reading after a tough
day.
TT may seem sort of odd, but don't duck, for
L we're about to swing from literature and
poetry into murder thriller. But, you see, the
book we want to talk about is an exception.
It's called The League of Frightened Mem
and it's by Rex Stout, who is emerging as one
of this countryS cleverest detective story tellers
This one (Farrar g. Rinehart; so is his best
yet, and that's saying a whole lot.
Mr. Stout holds to the theory that a fictional
detective must be bizarre to the limit of
dously corpulent gentleman by the name of
Nero Wolfe; a detective so utterly tremendous
in size that he doesn't even move out of his
house, but solves his cases by remote control SO
to speak.
In this tale he has to look into the case of
Paul Chaplin, famed novelist, who was crippled
some 20 years previously in a college hazing
accident Two Of the hazers are dead when
the story opens and the survivors are convinced
Chaplin is at the bottom of a 1endish plot to
destroy them all
That's as much as We old Book World ever
tells about a mystery story (we've heard of
shooting going on for that much, too and we're
going to call halt by adding that this mystery
has everything it takes for a real evenings
entertainment
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City.
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York City.