WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1928 V ooks of The Road to Heaven by Thomas Beer. Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. The Road to Heaven by Thomas Beer is an unpleasant work with its coarse and common people huddled in the darknesses of New York City from which they are attempting escape. At least Lamon whose nick- name, "Lame," suites him better be- lieves he sees a way of dodging the rumbling elevateds and the filthy street by returning to his farm near Cleveland, Ohio. He is a character who has tasted all the cold and greasy fats of life in his meanderings from Seattle to Boston. During the ted or fifteen years of his early life thus spent he has been a worker at any number of unimportant jobs from a salesman to a journalist of meagre worth. The friends whom he picks certainly add no lustre or interest to his career. He seems to live by luck and chance mostly, for his relatives take more of an interest in him than is the rule with most kin and they keep him from starvation at the crit- ical time by a check. His friends seem to think well of him and that is a point which should make the reader sympathetic to his condition and his troubles. Every THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE ?the lDay place he goes or every time his father invites him to leave his scattered friends issue invitations to him to live with them and they will find him a job. He at least has the attraction to win men and women, both, to show interest in his welfare. His devoteds, however, are common in their thinking and crude in their actions. The reader, at this point, imagines that the author considers that the great bulk of the people are like this. They talk with a vulgar t crudity and deal with questions like love and sex much the same way as the other part of their existence is lived. The reader feels that the char- acters are true although he does not want to believe it: he feels that they are replicas of hundreds who may be seen daily at the pleasure resorts or on cross-town street cars. The author rather snatches at something in human nature when lie propounds the theme that there is a hidden longing in this man for some- thing which would be a fulfillment to him. Most every person has some desire ungratified in this hodge-podge existence, but because someone hasn't! died or because someone has been born the desired is higher than thel arm's stretch. Although The Road to Heaven by Beer rather lives up to this pun with all of its cheap liquor and sex parties the author has cut out a precise pat- tern of life. In spite of the fact that Lamon is seeking a heaven he is un- sympathetic because he has no fine- ness of nature: the author has made him true-an uncultured mammal who knows about life and lives it in his somewhat dirty and lazy manner. The author makes what might be reckon- ed as a photograph of Lamon from the vivid and carefully selected details which he puts down. Beer has done what few men can, for in spite of his college training, his course at the Columbia Law school, and his experi- ence as an officer in the artillery he can see the life of of the majority- not as it is lived in a smug little col- lege town with all the niceties and perfections but in a throbbing mettro- polis where people attempt to get a. hundred per cent out of it by putting scarcely twenty-five in. Beer has' grappled successfully with Lamon and his friends in motley incidents which because of their precision and sharp- eness show the protagonist off with- out mincing with circumstances. (Copy by courtesy of the Graham Book Store.) K. S. TYPEWRITER RIBBONS and SUPPLIES For All Makes Rapid Turnover Insures Fresh Stock and Best Quality O. D. MORRILL cell on a trifling charge by three News From Other Colleges Madison policemen. 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