Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-12-05 | Page 14 | A Forgotten Book

A FORGOTTEN BOOK flOOK T N most persons persona libraries or tf those rows of or shelves which JL 1 hereabouts house such sueh musty volumes as the works of Washington Irving in large green bindings an occasional lonal Kipling and Rex Beach by th the austere sides of ot Edgar Allen Poe Poo and Mr Utah Noble 1 Warrum's History Of an and thus pass for libraries there may y bo be found a volume usually dust covered and anI touched entitled The Tho seldom of the Ingenious Adventures Gentleman Quixote of Don La Mancha by Miguel 1 Do De a Cervantes forgotten gentlemen and one while classic classi In es essence es es- sence to all is Js in as little known in this great detail state as the third chapter of Mr the Koran Kornn or James Branch Cabell Caben As Bert Leston at odd Taylor ha has said times a a. person ma J to write may have worthless stuff but theres there's no law to force him worthless to stuff Also a have to sell green man ma may a. a m. m to 6 C at night groceries from or fight I law cases or butcher suckling pigs or write sermons for persons who dont don't care to hear sermons but he need go so no further abroad for humor to take him out o of the drabness of the commonplace than the bottom of his book shelf if the bottom of his book shelf holds a copy of the doings of the Don When you rou get sick and tired of cold gray skies which suggest Norway rather than America and you ou can no longer find illusions In I your pipe I charge you pick this I volume up and if It you ou find It dry of ot a certain sappy sapp levity and serenity se se se- of humor mark me down for a double d dyed ed deceiver and a member of the Lords Lord's Day Alli API ance Properly though it is a book to be read in a summer A book for strange hotel rooms for country towns and train watts waits For or It is as lengthy as the travels of Gulliver and almost as long as Rabelais' Rabelais treatise on the And AtI 1 thIs Ig th n. n L I I r In days against it ft For or or all an of which i nevertheless advocate we sniff our nose at men who Judge a book by the speed with which it ft written read and may be tolerantly forgotten and agree that the test of of-a of a good book lies in how a perSOn that will they bore his consistently friends ends advising ad ad- advising ad- ad read it It have started five fhe farted persons their browsing in searching c copy Py they out the know and the other five must be there have persons who sworn to mention the murder me 1 if I Adventures Ad Ingenious Gentleman of the them them-I again to suppose they're not tiemen gen Of Cabell I tancy in have hac more hesitancy hesi- hesi speaking the due precise ill receptions to marks j I would ot of my good re- re remarks mi mend hIm to readers even now point have gone beYond whose viewpoint view view- manIa prompting the monomania monomanIa mono mono- Pollyanna for their them to bu buy whenever I nephews but Life T I am mention nn his Beyond eyebrows and n U VII la b u have suspicions that turned I a take the and plague profession slon the I last recommended time Jest The Cream Crean ot of as a good the the book say my printers r had friends ing i it as a a. cook book tee me recommend 1