Evening star., 1939-10-01
The Philadelphia Bdde Who Paints Writes the Story
Brief Reviews
|Of New Books

||Of New Books
Novels.
UNDER THE PUPPETS CROWN.
BY Lawrence Ealy. Boston: The
Meador Publishing Co.
Historical novel Of Mexico under
Macmillan. Ordinary.
Mysteries.
CRIME TEARS ON. BY Carolyn
Wells. Philadelphia: J. B. Lip
pincott Co.
Murder In the upper income
circles. Solved by Fleming Stone.
Typical Carolyn Wells.
MOONEY MOVES AROUND. BY
Kerry O'Neil. New York: Rey-
nal 81 Hitchcock.
Murder in New Yorks half world.
A detective story that is sold with
a bait-you get some money back II
you return 1t without reading the
sealed chapters" Your own risk.
TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING. BY
Dana Chambers. New York: The
Dial Press.
A secret agent gets around-with
blonds, bombs and dead bodies for
his scenery. Pretty good.
THE DRAGONS TEETH. BY Ellery
Queen. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Co.
Murder on a yacht again. Pretty
good.
TRAGEDY IN THE HOLLOW. BY
Freeman Wills Crofts New York:
Dodd, Mead g. Co.
Murder on a gala gambling boat.
Pretty good.
THE CASE OF THE ROLLING
BONES. BY Erie Stanley Gard
ner. New York: William Morrow
e. Co.
A hard-boiled old millionaire
struggling with gang of mercenary
relatives. Situation solved by the
well-known fiction sleuth, Perry Ma
son.
MURDER AT RADIO CITY. BY
Nigel Morland. New York: Far
rar g. Rinehart.
The English lady sleuth, Mrs. Pym
comes to America for a holiday and
finds a dead man sticking on cor
nice" of Radio City. Pretty fair.
DIVIDEND ON DEATH. BY Brett
Halliday. New York: Henry Holt
e. Co.
Murder in Miami. Fast moving
sort OF thing. Pretty good.
Reprints.
Showboat by Edna Ferber. A Tale
of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck and
Great Short Stories of Guy de Maui
passant in low-priced paperbound
editions, published by Pocket Books,
Inc, of New York.
Poetry.
MAN IN THE SHADOWS. BY Elias
Lieberman. New York: Liv-
eright Book Corp.
Book of verse on modern themes
Eqigrammatic, neat, very good.
AMER1CA-FOURTH DECADE. BY
Milton J. Goell New York: Dy-
manic America Press.
Poems generally on social themes
Pretty close to doggerel.
THE NORTH AMERICA BOOK OF
VERSE In five volumes. New
York: Henry Harrison.
| h1i6A orfhA1Nr,, Nf rNvot
rary poetry collected on geographic
cal lines, a section to State, with
a separate editor for each section
The level is neither low nor high
WE WENT TO WAR. BY H. D
Gallaudet. New York: Coward
McCann.
War poems of the rugged kind
Fair.
Drama.
THE DEVIL TO PAY. BY Dorothy
L. Sayers. New York: Harcour1
Brace e. Co.
Faustus and Mephistopheles again
Good theater, fair verse.
New Editions.
IN DUBIOUS BATTLE. BY John
Steinbeck. Modern Library Edi-
ton.
Drugs.
FLOWER OF JOY. BY Hendrix
DeLeeuw New York: Lee Fur.
man.
A popularly written survey of the
modern trade in narcotic drugs
Shocking.
Dads and Children.
FATHERS ARE FUNNY. BY Fred.
eric F. Van de Water. New York
John Day Co.
First person account of mans re-
lationship with his son: humorous
but seriously intended. Quite read
able.
, Mystic Mama India.
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY AND MOD.
ERN CULTURE. BY Paul Brun.
ton. New York: E. P. Dutton Co
The persevering Mr.. Brunton, whc
has already done several books or
India, here endeavors to explain
certain Indian religious doctrines or
the basis of quotations from othel
writer's, contemporary and ancient
The Arts.
A TREASURY OF ART MASTER
PIECES. Edited by Thoma!
Craven. New York: Simon &
Schuster.
A book of 144 color reproductions