Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 17 Mar 1932, p. 36

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U~<iV~'Easf.r Timne $ulo up BIBLES $ I.oo to $i o.oo CIIANDLER'-S Founfain Square Evaniston BOOKS. for nhe Ea.ter Gif t Specially %wrapped and sent any'wbere Efater Cards Beautiful Designs and Sentiments 1724 ORRINGTON AVENUE Evanston orrlngton Hotel Bidg. donc in 1927 of Charles A. Lindbergh The best of tbem is probably the ono of Dr. William H. Welch, tbe head o the Rockefeller Institute for Medica Research. 'r he great portrait painting e ras arn those in whicb bero worship flour. ishesand man believes, at, least a lit tIc, in deîni-gods'and supermen.T idea of equality is £ert'ainly a diseast of modern republican states. Mr. Woolf, for an example,' write.ý in the introduction to bis drawn an( %%ritten portraits: "At heart the ma. jo rity of, people are mucb alike." Ir another plac e be wonders apropos dt succ'ess' of these hero 'es be portrays' ,'if there were flot sometbing, caîl it' luck or chance or opportunity, wbiclm bias flot played an ail important part." He cites examples. Heevidently likes o, 'disco-ver clày feet. Even the great ones of the earth must sink on them to tbe levé! of the people-the real bero. Yet heý reports very little on bis sitters. ini lis writing, pot already niade know through diploma tic publi- city 'channels and ,reveals nôthing in bis drawing flot' to l>c found in the ord-iniary untouchced phiotograpi., Among tlie "head'lhunters" of the day, WVillRothenstein .was very nîucb finer, a more incisive'draughits- manî, and the scixîptor Jo D)avid- sýon biad miuch more the courage of his disillusionmient. The last is the 'j-reatest of the belittlers, But thien Mr. Woolf lias'drawn most of biis portraits for flcwspapers. In recett ears these bavec'had a. very great feeling of hos- pitality toward their public,' along wit'b a great clread. of its totichiness. 'This latter thcy- bave feit indeed so stronig-' ly that to' make taboos of botbi glori- fication and degiorification bias corne as a natural sequence. Thiere must be no superior men, in a rcpubllic, nonu e, iii any case, too big -to lie (de- ;cribed >in the comrmo nest ternis. STALIN,- THE CAREER 0F A FANATIC. Bv Essad-Bey. Essad-Bey, compatriot of the great Stalini, lias given uis à dranmatic por- trait o'f the man ivbo rulles over olie- the Viennese journal, Philobiblon, eWe quote the following from it 4There they are, waiting and silent, They neither urge, nior call, nor press their claims. Mutely 'they are ranged along the wall. They seern ýto be asieep eve.t f rom each one a name looks at 7you like an open eye. "If you look their way or reach a b' and toward themn they do flot call eout, nor are they.insistent. They makce no dernands. They wait until advances sare made to them; theni for the firsi Itimie tbecy open iup. First, when there Ss. quiet about us, peace within 'us; Ithien we are, ready for them. Yoù C wýoul(l like to dream, but in music *\Vith the 'pleasurable pres.entiment of a 1leasant experimenit you. go. tc the bookcase; a hundred eyes, a bun- dre(lnaines silently an d patiently mect you 1r- searching glance, as thle slave wvonen of seraglio look to their 'master, humbly aàwaiting the eall and yet blissful to be chosen. And then, 'as' the finger gropes about on the piano to. find the, key for a hidden rnelody, gently it yields to the hand, tis dumb wb-ýite thing,' this closed violin-in it ail the voices of God aré' lockcd up. ".You open up a book, you read a unpe, a verse; but it does net ring clear at the moment. Disappointed,. youput it back almost< roughly, until, *You ind the riglit book for the mo- nient. Then suddenly you are seized ' you breathe rapidly as you carry it iway to the lamp. 'fle book, the hap?- puly chosen volume glows. dazzles witli an imuer'1ligbit. Magic lbas' heén doue,; fromi delicate clotuds' of dreamns there stalks forth phiantasmnagoria. Broad vistas open up and' yoir Nvan- isbing senses are lost in space.." ELINOR WYLIE This spring, Knopf will. bring out the "'Collected PPoenis" of '.the, late ElinorWylie. The volume will çonsist of bier four published volumnes of poems presented in exactly the order and sequence in which they original- ly appeared, and a fifth section con- taining. forty-seven .poemis, of which K&nvs u irecti n ii stiuiu ceraniiv ex- cel at îvbatever occupation be chose to followv. Mr. Cobb, like Thomnas Edi- S soni, believes that success is *'iniet\v d percenit perspiration and ten percet p* iinspirationi." Given 'a, few> sub)stantial. t. qualities like ent.husiasi,. determiiiia-- tipn, concen tration,. etc., one miay [)v self discipline lote on these Squalities uintil the resuit is success. The- author 'holds,, up a portrait, (f sa, true, genius . describes his charac.- t eristies minutely and then savs. vu can be Iike that, too, if you want to. This psychological 'method' for iticit- in'g anîbýition is not a nemi one. er boy- andl girl bas a hiero and' beroinle. -The boy hopes to be like George WVashington or1 Lincoln, the girl hiopes to be a second Florence Xit- icengale or Mande Adamus. -fl act the splrindid deeds*and works of all great menand woinen a're set before chli- drenixni order tliat the latter ilnav he encouraged to do iikewvise, Atîvonle, says, Mr. Cobb, ean be a gcllius if 'le", a ni 1Iil to. .'i-odern psychology lbas so that there i rno iunbridlgeah)le gulif l>c- tweeur the genius and bis fellowin en. ' That is. the: author continues toc) x- plain, there, are. hundreds of, grada- tions. but tliedifferenices are of a (le- gree, not of kind. The genînus is nlot sonicone 'set apart froini'bis. fellow' men as an Olympian god-hle is jus«t a. littie iniarter, pmore cn.ltus.i;itic. inorec .spontaneouis thaix' o tlir 1I]. * oin or 1 bave the sainie (Ilalitics ils this genius. bt i e haveii't dlevelopud 'tbem. If ve want to snccced Nve nînsi have 'a zest for' life, jov iii dur ok and a conicentration tbat inakes uii forget to eaàt or sleep). le Edi- son ivas tracking down'îaii i<iea. ,rites Ir." Colbb, "lie workvd ilwithlit, tieals or sleep) for day'-son ',ei(l. Auguste Comte, the great Frencb pilosopher, once remainiecîiii. Iln- l)roken nmeditation for, eiglty.lîours." S ocrates stood motionlless i the snow for a wbole dlay -ile lie .soîved a problem.to Élis own satisfaction. Air. Cobb's book is mo:t initcrestiug and it is very hielpful. At 'lcast it is encouraging to know that vou bhave some. qualities' of mmnd thiat nîlav he developed and elabôrateid upon to sucb ati extenit'that. s1cceS vyl l e inevitab)le. Nfr. Cobl) is.a past p)resi- dent of te. Prnyr, -'- oVEit MarY Diekerson Dorialey,' inde- receptions afforded the travelers by fatigable *orker, bas turned out 'an- Englisb Scouts; a large party walk- HOW TO PRONOUNCE CAIBELL other nivsterv story for girls. "Mys-, ing *111 get many advance bits of James Brancb CabelI anniotimces the tendous Mansions," wbicb had a pre- information on technique. One of correct pronounciation of bis surÉ- reading at the meeting of the Matrix the most important f'eatures of a name by the ýfollowing ditty:' club.. The bo is scheduled for April wïalking tour is to bave an object Tell thie rabble publication.' far on abead. My. namne is Cabeli k~i p. r:: A 11110 w-

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