BRIGHT WESTERN

Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 4

BRIGHT WESTERN

There is never a western story published without plenty of gunplay in it, and, maybe, not a few killings. Eugene Cunningham’s latest novel, 1 Red Range ’ (Wra. Collins, Son, and Co. Ltd.) has an excellent admixture of both, for the author presents to the reader as fine a collection of bad men—cattle rustlers and train robbers down on the Texas border—as one could expect to meet. The story centres largely round the life of a young man who i» wrongly accused of murder, and who, erroneously identified as a certain young gunman, is hunted all round the State. His earlier years shrouded in mystery, he recalls spending his early _'teen« round the Chicago stockyards with an uncle. When harassed by sheriffs m Texas, he finally finishes up as a stockman on a big ranch, and providentially it transpires the owner of the ranchii his own father. A tall story .but quit* readable. Our copy is from Whitcomb* and Tombs.

Fears are felt for the life of Dr Lion Feuchtwanger, the author of * Jew Suss,’ who fled from Germany to escape the Nazi terror and has lived in exile for years tie is said to be in tli® hands of his enemies—‘Times Literary Supplement.’