Show II I V B MH VB H I Theres There's Delightful Sermon in Mr Fortunes Fortune's For une Maggot Faint Strain of Mockery and anda a a Shrewd Delicacy Mark Style As s the second volume to be broadcast to widely scattered scatter d list of subscribers the recently born Lit Guild of America has chosen most happily Sylvia Warners Warner's Mr Fortunes Fortune's Maggot The prospect of so slyly satiric and civilized a tale getting an audience audience audience audi audi- ence It perhaps could not otherwIse otherwise other other- wise vise hope for makes one a bit grateful to th these se newly arrived mediums me for the distribution of lit lit lit- It seems to us the Imperative imperative Imper Imper- duty of these various book clubs to make their selections not from the beaten path but from those rare and sparkling efforts that might otherwise get lost In the shuffle and which deserve a wide audi audience nce and a wide appreciation Selecting some obviously sure sure fire fire product as Elmer Gantry for In Instance instance instance in- in stance seems almost a waste of time The rhe Lewis opus needs no distribution agency outside its own publishers it is certain to to be read by almost everybody But about a season ago there crept quietly from England a few thousand holdovers from an English publishing house under the title of Lolly Willows a bit so charming that b blase as critics grinned their de delight delight delight de- de light and wondered who the dickens this Warner woman woman might be ABOUT A MISSIONARY Since this seems to be an open season eason for for- missionaries evangels evangels' and such let us hasten to announce that th t Mrs Warners second book Is about a missionary but he Is n no Gantry He is Is' a kindly timid soul who has been worked almost to ex exhaustion exhaustion ex- ex in a L South Sea mission until he gets get his precious assignment assignment assignment assign assign- ment to the tranquil sporadic Island is island island Is- Is land of Fanua He is warned in advance that the skinned brown natives natives na na- na- na tives of Fanua are not easy to deal witty they are are a people who have in their language no such words as chastity and gratitude gratitud They are veritable children living an idyllic life completely unused to any of the complexities of ot the white man and with a religion so simple and a a. viewpoint so simple that they are arc bound t to prove disarming to any hard fisted religious but the the most tyrant which Mr Fortune is not WOOED FRO FROM PURPOSE So SOwe we have presented presente here bere the amusing story of f bow now th the good mis is IC wooed from the purpose with which he set out and quite unaware of what bat t is happening to him is slowly converted by the natives na na- na- na tives it all comes about t through ough the influence of the affectionate and childlike a nat native ve boy whom Mr Fortune has come to think about ps' ps as as' as his his' first not first not only only eon con vert That Luell Is not converted to anything except a strong attach- attach m nt tn fm tn th h white whIt man I is shown In many amusing i g ways a s and d the i tact fact i iha that ha the good missionary has come cometo cometo cometo to see religion In a new light is developed In a faintly mocking manner up td the time of th the earthquake earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake which rocks the little UttIe Island he he comes comes to a realization realization realization tion of his dereliction and speeds him himself sel away convinced that he has cast aside God Whether or ox not he is a better Christian for his experiences will be left to the reader Our own reaction reaction reaction tion was one of frequent delight attha atthe at atthe the tha authors author's abi abilities to say nothing noth v oth ing of the shrewd delicacy of her sermon By r-EA r Service e g. g 2 1 r a h hI I Slyly Satiric Sylvia Warner |