JOHN HENRY Roark Bradford Harper ($2.50).
After Author Roark Bradford gained fame with his negroid Bible stories, Ol' Man Adam an' Ilis Chillun (on which Playwright Marc Connelly based his Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures), he failed to add to it with This Side of Jordan, an unpleasantly realistic, unpleasantly tragic novel of Negro life. Now he is back again on the side of the angels with a rambling, episodic legend of the big black buck John Henry, who is to the Cotton Belt what Paul Bunyan is to the North Woods.
John Henry...
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