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GANDLE FOLLOWS HIS NOSE—Heywood Broun—Boni, Liveright ($1.50). The organ that Colyumist Broun ("It Seems to Me" in the New York World) has constructed for Bunny Gandle has the color of health, no really bad snuffling habits, a humble bend rather than a priggish tilt, and a sprinkling of fairly honest freckles. It leads its possessor through a life-fantasy braver than most — through a youth's magic-lantern illusions, a young man's dragons, a grown man's gods and battles, an aging man's dead gods and vainglory, to a thoroughly egotistical death. But likable though he is. Gandle is dawdling. His nose, though appealing, is so snub that it is difficult for any one else to follow. Fantasies are fantasies, and lots of fun, too, making people guess their meaning, if any. But Colyumist Broun too often falls between the stools of sense and sensibility. He leaves one wondering whether he himself is really a brave, humble, big-hearted man who refuses to relinquish youth's bright ideals, or an overgrown boy in rompers trying to gambol like Mr. James Branch Cabell.
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