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Se EVA x Wy - WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1923 13 Book Reviews By John Philip Morris Among the gifts wherewith the Gods have endowed the Scotch are thrift, thirst and the ability to write tales of adventure. Scott is the clas- sicist of this school--a classic, accord- ing to Hunecker being a book that pleased our grandfathers--while Stev- enson, McFee and John Buchan are contemporary examples I have just finished Buchan's latest thriller HUNTINGTOWER. If you like that sort of thing--I do--you can- not go armchair adventuring more enjoyably. John Buchan was scarcely known to the reading public before the war With the publication of THE THIR- TY NINE Steps, however, he at once sprang into prominence as one of the foremost writers of the Oppenheim- Wells coterie. (E. Philips and Caro- lyn, my dears, NOT James and H. G.) and since that time has being doing for Scotland what Oppenheim, Roh: mer and Doyle are doing for England, Wells, Burroughs and McIntyre for America, Achmed Abdullah for Turk- ey, Le Queux for France, Schmidt, Schwartz and Weiss-Hogman for Germany and Andersen and Petersen for Sweden. This is a George Jean Nathan touch. It is intended to show the vast background and eru- dition of the critic and in case that he isn't, may be faked ab lib as the aver- age reader doesn't know the authors mentioned and, doesn't care.) Mr. Buchan served during the war as a correspondent and proved that he can turn out gool work in that field also. HUNTINGTOWER, how- ever, is pure fiction. It is the story of the great week in the life of a re- tired Glascow grocer who seeks ad- venture beyond that of sanding the sugar of Scotia and finds all he seeks on a walking tour that ends up in a whirlwind of bucaneers, boy scouts, a poet, a princess and many, many deeds of daring-do. It would not be fair to tell the story but it combines mystery and humor in just the right proportions. In TUMBLEWEEDS, by Hal G. Evarts, we read again one of those epics of the days when the great west began at St. Louis and men were men almost as far East as Cincinnati. For those that enjoy synthetically trudg- ing the plains with a steer yoked fagon and meeting the folk of the frontier, no better book is available. It is just the sort of thing that films so well. In our mother's days clubs were formed and there was much intelllect- ual shovel and pick work with an oc- casional blast of professorial dyna- mite to clear the ultimate absolute in the ambiguous but he is as lucid as Lowell and as simple as Swinburne alongside of T. S. Eliot. Mr. Eliot-- considered as Sassoon the greatest poet of the day has never been easy reading. In THE WASTE LAND, however, he becomes so foggy that even Sweeney and Blustein become sunlit noons on clear water. 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