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November 15, 1929 WILM .E TTE LIFE 4l Comment on Books. and Authors THE BIG"'RACKET. "Yonder Grow IT'S A GREAT WAR. By Mary the Daisies." By \Villiam Lipman. Lee. ~-Ioughton Mifflin compan~·. Ives Washburn. Here IS a book to make you realize If we must have racket::; and rae- the war. If that isn't ,·our object don't keteers in life let us have them in liter- start it. For from the moment that ature. Let us learn about this ne.w you begin to re.ad its slightly laconic, phenomenon to which John Gunther ?ketchy broken sentences, you are in says every Chicagoan pays individual It and cannot get away. tribute of forty-five dollars :::. year. Not This book is written by a woman. to know where'that money goes is like '/( · · who was mary L ee wntes as one helon~ing to a club having. dues ln:t there, it is unecessary to turn to the. no club . house and no meetings. . . , l)ublisher's ote to k now tl 1a t ·11er ex" . n ~~rc m. Yonder Grow the Dat~tt~ penences paralleled those of her char\Vtlhaf!1 .Ltpman, a tH!\\'S papcrman. \\·no/ actn. :\n1rt: \Vl'ntworth. in her book has evtdently had ample opportumtr t'J " lt's a Great \\'ar." "It's a great study the rackets at close hand ·. gt:·es war!" the phrase which echoed over us what seel!'s to b_e an aut~ontattve ami over when they were cold when story of thetr workmgs. It 15 rat~ler the night raider nearly got then;, when a bizarre pleasure to be h(Jbnobbm~ tile general sctlt · 1 requisi · ·t· ·1 1 h · · h .. ·· a spccta 1011 w1t 1 P,~op e to w 0111 pnson ts t ~ 1 >lg clown from the front f · · f house the way back to hone tv ts '·be . .o.r a patr o ' J · ' btnoculars so that Rosalie · tl ~c far t oo, 4 ' up and up" and the waY thev have alwavs traveled is "the- hac·k a'ml pret~y stenographer, could als.o watch .s n. " I the great war. It echoes agam when uOW . . . . . . t I1e men wI10 Imrned over eager to \Ytthout the shght~st sentm~entalttJ' fight find that they were brought to 'tl h · which woul~ make. tt mawktsh, the I scratch maho an d ks author descnbes Bnck Donavan lookg Y e.s · wt 1 t ~tr ing through the ustone eye:~ ·at the spurs or to pe.el spuds ms.tead of_ flymg prison and seeing some daisie . gro\v- \ plane. \~' tthout senttmcntaltty or ing. "\Vhat d'ya kno\\·-dai~ics. Ge'·, . t e roseate. hues of our nursery tales you're the berries. A guy's too . c in of war, Mtss Lee shows the dre~ry the belfry to pass you up for any· eY.erydaynes~ ..t!1e boredom of the 1111t!Jing," and Brick's cunHr~inn t,, tht IlllllCllt posstlHhty that tl~c next shell honest life is begun. ' _v.·ould htt, th e weary longtng for nothWhen he gets out ui pri suu he mg but a hot bath .. Yet she has caught. doesn't go back to the big hos:-; in the too, the drama of it, the fact that it city hut to a little town ,,·here he ~ tarts \\"aS the drama of youth. "all the youth working at his old trade of clectriciaJ ~ . of the world together," in the tremen He meets a girl there who can sine; clous maelstrom. Hmror attcl death and a song about daisies. He doe ·n't kn ov; suffering, Yet in it something which and neither does ~he that they have made life like wine to the taste, exhilboth been framed" by the bo s for arating, intoxicating, hitter perhap:-;, hut a big job. · The time for th e job come" to he drained to the last drop. 1fiss ~tnd. at fi~st they hoth fall into plac·: Lee has ad opted a style, swift, sharp, 111 . l~ne. fhen the. I~lt· mory of tl1o s~ episodic, which ha s in it the comrl ~ttstes and the gtrl s su ng. change:-. pressed excitement, the tapping everything, and Brick iu~tead of tak----- --ing off the door of the safe to get out the diamonds is taking it edt t o put them back. There is a thrilling batt! ·~ hctw<.·cn two ri,·al teams of gangster~ and Brick and the girl come out safe I at last. It is a good story iull ui ; u~tiun :111d Z('~t and yet well written. 41 II ft1v'NfAIN SQVARL · LV.ANS'TON rhythm. the concentration of war. She has given not so much one person's experience, as a tremendous panorama which unfolds in uncannv realitv hefore our eyes. · · EPOCHS IN AMERICAN BANKING. By Xohlc Foster . Hoggson . John Day. ~f r. 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