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Make the Best Reading, Explained
by a Famous Analyst
By WILL DURANT.
Author of “The Story of Philosophy "
THE present day writer has to be
reminded occasionally that a
book may have a wide sale and
yet be worthless. And the present day
reader does not have to be reminded
that a book may have a poor sale and
it was * boy's book? So people think
“GULLIVER’S TRAVELS” is a boy s
book, whereas it is a terrific satire on
all humanity, intelligible only to dis
illusioned and experienced souls.
Head the lives of Solon, Pericles,
Alexander, Cicero and Caesar. Live
with the heroes, and you will be im
proved by the company you keep.
Can you find time for a little
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De ■ worif or genius. I should like ti
story
comment, now and then, on the offer
ings of past and contemporary litera
ture and to recommend volumes, oh
and new, that are likely to
give the stimulating mixture,
of instruction and delight
which characterizes the great
books of the world.
Have you read PLATO’S
•’SYMPOSIUM”? Don’t be
frightened by the name of
i lato—he was one of the
most human beings that ever
lived. And don’t «hy at the
word “Symposium.” It is
true that it means a “drink
ing together” and that tho_
tells of a con viva! affair at the
borne of the Greek dramatist,
Agathon, and ends with everybody
under the table except Socrates.
But between the cup and the lip
what magnificent discourse! And on the
most absorbing topic imaginable —
What is Love?
Agathon, whose feast celebrated his
winning of what we might call the
Pulitzer Prize for drama at Athens in
i6'll® B. C., would have been
glad to admit that he was a novice and
bungler in comparison with Euripides.
Buy, borrow or otherwise acquire a
copy of EURIPIDES’S “THE TRO
JAN WOMEN”; and no other trans
lation than Gilbert Murray’s will do.
The drama pictures (to a Greek audi
ence) the story of the capture of Troy
Jrom the viewpoint of the defeated
Trojans. There is nothing in Shakes
peare to surpass it.
Of course you have read PLU
TARCH’S “LIVES.” No? You thought
BOOKISH THRONG
Eager Crowd at the Auction of Rare Volume* During Which' the Original Manuscript
of Lewi* Carroll'* Maiterpieca Wa* Sold for a Large Sum. Regarded a* "frivolous"
When It First Was Issued This Satirical Fantasy Is Now Recognised as Ona of the
Finest Literary Products of the Nineteenth Century.
STILL BEST SELLER
Fraftmant of a Rat* from tho Original
Manuscript of "Alice in Wonderland,”
with Pictures of th* Heroine.
tiful; avoid it if you must have
1 a happy ending-. It is as good
as Omar, as mellow as Anatole
Fiance and (let us hope) as
false as politics. Professor
Shotwell calls Lucretius’s poem
on the Nature of Things “the
greatest intellectual achieve
ment of antiquity."
And now we skip 1,900 years.
poetry? There Is a thin volume by W.
H. Mallock called “LUCRETIUS ON
LIFE AND DEATH.” Half an hour
will compass it. It is tragically beau
ana go to oiDcria. incic ia me
hut in which Dostoievsky profoundest of
all novelists, spenjtthe years of his esile.
You mav read his account of it, if
you wish, in “THE HOUSE OF THE
DEAD.” But first find time for hia
gigantic story of “THE BROTHERS
KARAMAZOV.” Yes, it more than
S00 pages long and the first 100 pages
are the hardest. Rut then—by the
side of that unfolding epic of bared
souls HUGO’S “LES MlSERABt.ES”
is a melodrama for the Bowery. When
you read the last page you long for a
thousand pages more. No book will
teach you more about men. Nietzsche
said he had learned more psychology
from Dostoievski than in all the for
mal books of psychology that he had
even seen.
“There Is No Short Cut to Succees”
LOANED BILLION
Arthur J. Morris, Who Launched a
New Era in Business and Tails in tha
Accompanying Articla How Success
Can Be Attained.
liTHDR J. MORRIS has loaned
more than one billion dollars
x m to five and a half million per
sons—and has launched a new era in
banking.
“People are honest/' he says. And:
“The man of small income is as much
entitled to bank credit in times ef need
ns is the great corporation."
And the people proved he eras right,
because the loss has been less than one
quarter of one per cent, and this bank
ing business which, in the beginning,
no bankers would touch lias flourished
Until Morris, in a few years, has be
come one of the truly great financial
figures of the times.
He grew up in Norfolk, Va., the
despair of his teachers because he was
the most brilliant scholar and at the
same time a “playing hooky” addict.
Be was graduated with high honors
from the academic department of the
University of Virginia and afterwards
from the law school before he was
twenty-one—before ho could be ad
mitted to the bar.
It was while he was legal represent*,
tive of several banks and frequently
recipient of woeful tales from honest
workmen of steady earning capacity
who could not borrow money in such
emergencies as sickness, that Morris
conceived the idea which has become
the “Morris Plan Bank.”
What Do You Know—
About War Songs
1. What song is called “the nursery
rhyme of the American Army?”
S. From what was the music of ‘■‘The
Star-Spangled Banner” takenf
S. When was “John Brawn’s Body”
first sung? • «
4. Who attempted to supply new words
for it?
5. What was the greatest song of the
Civil War?
6. Who wrote “Marching Through
Georgia?”
7. Who was a prolific writer of
Northern songs during the Civil Wart
8. What British songs were sung to
a great extent in the American train
ing camps during the World Wart
9. What songs were added to Ameri
can collections of war songs during the
World Wart
answers.
1. “Yankee Doodle," first sung by
our soldiers during the Revolutionary
War. Many different words have been
set to it, and, after the original dog
gerel, the most popular is “The BaUIo
of the Kegs.”
2. From the tune of “Anacreon in
fleaven,” an old English drinking song,
which fitted the words of Francis Scott
Key’s poem to perfection.
a. On the anniversary of the death
of John Brown. His regiment, the 12lh
Massachusetts Infantry, stood in
formation around his grave and sang
tha seng.
4. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe’s great
‘‘Battle Hymn of the Republic” was
originally intended to supply a dif
ferent set of words to “John Brown’e
Body.”
5. “Dixie,” the song of the South.
It was written by Daniel D. Emmet fo*
a minstrel company playing in New
York in 1859 and immediately became
the great favorite of the Southern
people.
6. Henry Clay Work. General Sher
man, the leader of the Northern Army
in Its devastating march through Geor
gia, is said to have disliked the song
intensely.
7. George F. Root, whose “Just Be
fore the Battle, Mother” was first
given to the public in the Chicago
Court House Square by the Lombard
Brothers, a popular singing duo of
the day.
8. “Its a Long Way Tipperary,”
and “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your
Old Kit Bag.”
9. "Over There,” “SmileE,” "Oh,
How I Hate To Get Up in the Morn
ing,” "Good Morning, Mr- Zip, Zip,
Zip,” "The Long. Le*g Trail* F *
* ? ‘ Jf. JH**’ *
—Says Arthur J. Morris, Founder of
the Morris Plan
With $22,000, nearly half of it his
own, end the rest guaranteed against
loss to the lenders of it, he began his
experiment of lending money to those
persons no bank would trust and whom
the loan sharks victimized. The poor
man’s bank was a success. Another
followed, in Atlanta.
Today there are “Moms Han
Hanks” in 131 cities, and they have a
working capital of approximately
$125,000,000. Morris also heads, as
president, tha Industrial Acceptance
Corporation, which finances instal
ment buying of motor cars, electric
and radio appliances and even homes.
“Young men (lave a tendency to hunt
for short-cuts to success,” ho declares.
“There is bo shortcut which avoids
work. But thero is a shorter, surer
road to achievement than most psople
find.
“I would say that the development
of absolute integrity and dependability
of judgment is the short-cut to suc
cess. I am not preaching morals. 1
am talking about practical advance
ment in business.
“The development of a habit of ab
solute truthfulness in word and act
gives one two clear advantages:
“First—Somehow the ingrained habit
of integrity, of dependability, creates in
the individual an instinctive recogni
tian of tho 'true’ objective. Confronted
with verioue alternative! of proceedure,
the pereon of abiolute integrity choose!
the right course by instinct.
"By training tiie conscious mind in
honesty, the individual has trained the
subconscious mind to react instinctively
—correctly. It adds up the right an
■*#« to a given situation before the
individual cari arrive at a decision by
conscious thought. \Yc say that that
man decided dependably, instantly—
‘by intuition.’
“Some think this intuitive faculty
‘just happens': I tell you that it can be
built up, that anyone can build it up—
and thereby become a more ^ble indi
vidual, worth more to his employer.
‘‘Second—Business has become so
big in this country, with so much at
stake; and steady, safe management so
difficult, that the directors of it con
stantly are searching for the rarest ol
all traits—absolute integrity and de
pendable judgment. The man who has
these two capacities is able, in time,
to ‘write his own ticket’ as regards
compensation. The directors of big
businesses know that if they cannot
find those trails their great editice
cannot stand.
“So I say integrity and dependable
judgment are the short-cuts to success;
and there are no others."
V
Finally, we come home. Would you
like to know the real hictory of Amer
ica—the story of our rise to civilira
tion—told without .fig-leaves, and yet
with affection and loyalty? Read “The
Rise of American Civilization,’* by
AUTHOR’S
INSPIRATION
Tb Original
of '* Alien in
Wonderland," from t Raro Medallion.
Charles aiid Mary Beard- Take it
slowly; it is difficult; but it will
deepen and broaden you like year* of
lift.
Wooden Shoes tor Ladies
Capricious womankind, which
has borrowed haircut styles from
the Zulus and “lifted” slave
bracelets from Arabians, has made an
other geographical foray and came
back with a most surprising innovation
in attire.
Wooden shoes!
One associates such clogs,
usually, with nursery tales and
the fairy stories of Andersen
and Grimm. But Miss America,
1929. snatched her latest in
spiration from those beguil
ingly picturesque Breton and
Basque peasant girls, who,
white-capped and vivacious,
BORROWED FROM BRITTANY
Two Lateral View* of the New and
Fashionable "lumber clog*,’’ Showing
the Exquisite CrafUmanthip.
can be ,'eeri — and heard — clattering
through the winding streets of Brest or
Barbasto.
m VARIETIES
Miss Mari* Sinnott, ef N. Y.
n ■■-^ City. Displaying DirtrM Typa*
of Smart Woo dan Shags.
You must not assume, howerer, that?
the modern American or English deb
utante is going to be content with
those crude, uncomfortable affairs that
their French and Spanish cousins are
content with. No, these stylish wood*
cn shoes are exquisitely fashioned,
carefully moulded to the instep, and
held in place with brilliant crossed
ribbons or thongs. in some case*.
Before long, Fifth Avenhe, it is pre
dicted, will resound to the rhythmic
thump of the new Goody Two-Shoes,
By Clare Murray, New Girl Poet-Artist
On the River Bank.
Oy any night you care to look
You’ll sco my light
Burning in that high icindoil
Life is my study,
Yet l myself sit high above life ..,
MI$S MURRAY
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SOMETIMES 1 lay o->l<Ic my bookt
^ ' To walk along the dries
hi com pang with thousands
Yet alone, remote,
In spite of longing to descend
In spirit also from mg peak.
How I hare longed to mingle with the ciOit'd!
But always inborn fear has held me lack
And throttled every wild impulse new-fancied
Keeping me a slave to caution,
hear of self
That made my mother merry for security
Rather thjin risk life
With a strong uncultured love.
/ENVY that boy and girl
Who, arm in arm, stroll through the path
Oblivious of the world
I envy the pauper
Who hears the life-tale
Of a half-blind idiot
I envy more the cautious font
Who, being foolish, does not know
Mow much he misses, being cautious,
life is my study—
Yet 1 myself sit high above life.
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