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Science, History, Philosophy ON THE TRAIL OF ANCIENT MAN Roy Chapman Andrews* - Putnam ($6). " Asia is the mother of the continents...
...Class Committee: Roy Hubert Booth Jr. of Brookline...
...away to New York, because he happens to learn shorthand at the right time. Contrariwise, the innocence and integrity which he inherits from his oak-hearted grandfather deter him from capturing the heroine, Blanche Holden (whose Democrat father is being swept into profiteering realty) ahead of the artistic cosmopolite, Roy Norcross, who fritters away his talents and makes Blanche miserable on two continents. Hero Alan meantime makes the best of a second fiddle wife, Leta, who goes out of the book chasing a title for their daughter...
...GREAT AMERICAN ASS-Anonymous-Brentano's ($3.50) Of all autobiographies, anonymous ones arouse the highest expecta tions. These, one feels, can afford to let themselves go. On this score none will be disappointed with "Roy Bradley's" freakish self-history. He is a man on the borderline of genius and insanity, not far (though far enough) removed from that type of creature that plagues editors and other public people with "nut" letters. He has passionate grievances, Tom o' Bedlam's honesty and a spilling store of acrid Americana to relate. Son of Puritans, he was raised...
...Roy Bradley" himself, despite a certain lack of ingenuousness that inevitably marks confessions in the Occident, remains a frenzied, consumptive paranoiac, self-immolated for revenge upon Barbarism, babbling as he waits for death that the grey bones of New England babies became fertilizer for the prairie soil; that the Puritans, nurtured on illusion, are wild asses run amuck when illusion has withered. Whoever he is, he once wrote (44) a novel and sent it to the late Walter Hines Page, who returnee it with the gentle words: "Either I am pretty crazy...