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...DAILY BREAD-Gosta Larsson- Vanguard...
Swede Gosta Larsson has been living in the U. S. long enough (eleven years) to 'write his first novel in English and to announce it as the first volume of a trilogy. Gentler in tone than most proletarian novels (perhaps because its scene is patient Sweden), it hints at a rougher sequel. To many a reader who likes highly-seasoned stories, Our Daily Bread will seem insipid fare, but for those who can do without salt it will provide an honest mouthful...
...Author Larsson's care to write objectively has made his story a little toe matter-of-fact, his people a little too typical. But, as is often the case in such chronicles, the minor characters are worth the price of admission...
...Washington's historical background as Dave and Babs can remember. A direct literary descendant of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit," Scamper is screwed more tightly to possibility, will please modern children with its modern setting. Better than the text grown-ups will like Mrs. Marjorie Flack Larsson's illustrations-water-colors and sketches with the low-to-the-ground perspective of childhood, showing Scamper skidding on the deck of the Sequoia, racing over the Mount Vernon lawn, traveling in Mrs. Roosevelt's knitting...
Standing near the inventor, enjoying the delight and bewilderment of newsmongers, was Isaac W. Heyman, rich steel manufacturer, who had offered $250,000 for making copies of J.G. Larsson's device and then disposing of them. He explained that the inventor was in the U.S. to demonstrate his invention so that telephone companies might use it as standard equipment: he pointed out that in Sweden, whence Inventor Larsson had come and where he lives, Inventor Larsson's device has been demonstrated and found good by government engineers...