Books: Wild West Show

CODE OF THE WEST—Zane Grey—Harper ($2 ).

Critics pay small attention to Author Zane Grey, but hundreds of thousands of readers do. Synonymous with whooping cowpunchers, last-minute rescues, he-man lovemaking and he-man humor, his books (54, total sales in the U. S. 15,000,000) are truer to cinema than to life. The Wild West will not be dead so long as Zane Grey's yarns remain in circulation. He has never deserted, raised or lowered his standard. His signature is practically a trademark.

Code of the West—"the new 1934 Zane Grey novel"—is up to standard. The story,...