BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief CRAZY WEATHER, by Charles L. McNichols. Mac-millan. $2. If you like action, Indians, boys, and a writer with a fine appreciation of weather and other aspects of nature, you'll like...
...The 70-year old roue has kept his craftsman's skill sharp, and The Razor's Edge is good Maugham...
...Dodd, Mead...
...as in so many things, a little of it goes a long way...
...He is far less at east in writing of the American scene...
...If you like action, Indians, boys, and a writer with a fine appreciation of weather and other aspects of nature, you'll like Crazy Weather...
...SMARTER AND SMOOTHER, by Maureen Daly...
...For all its persuasiveness about a man who found a faith, the story, like its author, is old and tired and worldly...
...2.75...
...Actually, she modernizes and sugar-coats the time-tested morals of our grandmothers...
...What happens to these crazy kids is well and excitingly told—and the white boy returns from his eventful trip wiser and willing to shoulder a white man's work on his father's ranch...
...Her knowledge and application of "bobby-sock lingo" puts her "in the groove" immediately...
...However, this is not a book you would want to read in one sitting...
...It's about a 14-year-old white boy who thinks he'd rather be an Indian—and live as he pleases— than a white man—and accept responsibility...
...THE RAZOR'S EDGE, by Somerset Maugham, Doubleday, Doran...
...It is witty too...
...Maugham is at peak form in his pitiless exposure of the American expatriate of doubtful sex...
...J.B.L...
...Smarter and Smoother, essentially a hand-book for the high school generation, is a collection of Miss Daly's weekly columns plus several new ones...
...Both young and old will enjoy this diverting story...
...He runs away with a Mojave friend, during the siege of crazy weather, to fight the Piutes...
...In her usual style, she handles the problems of the high school kid lightly and smoothly...
Vol. 8 • May 1944 • No. 22
