AN AMERICAN NOVEL
"Here's to .the Gods.'' By Austin Parker. . New, "York : Harper and Broth- ! ers. (From. Robertson and .Mullens, Melbourne). " '•' .•,.•' ,' .;"■
"Here to the Gods" is 'a/brightlywritten- American/ love story, concerning the life and experiences oE Tony Morton,, who after Hying with his father, who is an oil prospector, in the Malay Archipelago,, goes; to" America, but ;fails .to settle down. Annoyed at the failure- of the United States to 'join the i Allies in the early ;stages of the war, he • joins* the French flying,service, andhis experiences in Paris with a'girl whom" he meets quit© casually give him an ■•;insight into real lift. : Aftenyards, unsettled by his war experiences, he' passes - through a period of excesEive: restlessness,* constantly.seeking excitement and. finding in1 the end that there is 'nothing substantial or satisfying in the feverish round,of gaiety. ''Here's to: the Gods" is rather a better book than the majority of its class of fiction. '.■ ■".. ". • -'i .■- ','„' ■..
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 17
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155AN AMERICAN NOVEL Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 17
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