ELMER SQUEE,

by Ensign R. L. Brooks '39,U. S. Naval Reserve. The Macmillan Company, N. Y., 1942. 92 pp. $1.00.

ENSIGN BROOKS studied drawing under our Resident Artist, Paul Sample '2O, and this book shows that Mr. Brooks' efforts were not in vain. For Elmer Squee, "wistful yet manful," may become as famous as Thorne Smith's Biltmore Oswald of World War I.

Mr. Brooks has really drawn a picture book, with black and white wash drawings, of the career of one Elmer Squee who got hot under the collar when he heard of Pearl Harbor and joined the Navy. Elmer's adventures in becoming a gob are told in couplets under each picture, and in the reviewer's opinion the drawings are far better than the verse.

It remains to be seen whether Elmer becomes as famous as Bill of Dere Mabel fame but whether he does or not he can stand on his own feet and is well worth your acquaintance.

Elmer Squee certainly belongs on your shelf of American war books of World War 11.