SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1922 THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE
him and, even more, nearer him, all wife, through the disastrous time when know of nothing its better in all of Frank Harris has published lis
around, the Intense activity of insects. the Comstocks were destroying the American letters and I recommend it third series of "Contemporary Por-
Ah! Dear creatures! You have not plates to his novel, but his resent- to anyone who can think beyond the traits," intimate critical essays on
yet a place on the world's Roll of ment overtakes him finally, and even herd. well-known men of the present day.
Honor, the place you deserve." Ugh! though he tries to be chivalrous to-
But the book is not entirely bad. ward those who are so unfair toward
It contains two interesting charac- him, he rages over the whole scene
ters, the heroine, to whom Mr. Benoit with a scathing and unanswerable S atle LIi1
gave the fine old American name of criticism. But he is always fair, and
Annabel Lee, and the Catholic priest, he never loses his head.
Pere d'Exiles. Annabel manages to Then he quiets, and saddened by C.Cr. )Vain and Washington
be quite a lively and lovable young the thoughts of the death of his pa-
woman, imperative, unreasonable, and rents who had pinned so much faith
susceptible, distinctly human, and her in him and who had not lived to reap
spiritual advisor, Pere d'Exiles, is the the reward of their expectations, he
most intriguing person in the book. drops into a conclusion that is quiet
The figusre of tl French priest is except for a menacing rumble now and Capital $300000 Surplus $300,000
plication and suggestion. One's curi- choly, and wonderment and a wish
osity is never quite satisfied as to his for better things, and so closes his
character. It is because of this that book. Resources $4,000,000
the volume is readable. "Up Stream" is certainly superb. I
"Salt Lake" wsas translated from the WHfHi i1fiIIlU IItIii111jI 11111f1111111IIFIIII i 11:
French by Florence and Victor Lona.
For the moat part it is smooth read-
ng, but now and againa phrase in-
trudes itself as being a too direct
translation of a French phrase. For
example, Doctor Hurt, the Secretary
of Indian affairs in the Territory of
Utah, says of Salt Lake, "Is it not the a o s!ol
most adorable of cities?" and he con-G o da
tinually addresses Mrs. Lee as "lovely'
friend," an expression familiar enough
in French. but stilted in English.
- s rerhechft i qumesion ,W'" PICKED AT R ANDOvi FROM OUR STOCK
translate 'Salt Lake' at all?"
"UP STIE'.0"-A REVIEW_ _
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seared and insulted by the actions of .
morons, cads, and downright swine This week there are excellent values awaiting
Here I depart for a moment to gaze
in wonderment at Ohio State Univer the belated buyer. Your need for a Spring Wrap
sily, When I consider it I actually
become proud of Michigan and can or Suit will be met with a wide variety to select
scarcely restrais myself from bawling
"The Yellow and Blue" out of my win-
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Several months before Lewisohn's
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surprise, they had never heard of him,W$
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but I had still another shock when a
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man guillotined for writing his article -
on Ohio State in a recent number of
Chimes. I never, in all my life, heard-_
of anything so poltroonish.
The final and completely convincing ?
blow came with the reading of
Lewisolin'sbook, with the reading of Seventy years of garment selling to a clientele
haw he was hounded and snubbed and
intimidated until he was glad to take' that reaches from Detroit to Jackson, is your
leave of the place. Viewing the whole
matter I doubt whether there is a less
culurl nsittio i tiswhleguarantee of satisfaction when you purchase
cultural institution in this whole
great Land of the Free than at Colum-
bus. There may be some intelligentEre.
men down there but I have never dis-
covered any, excepting Bowerman,
and he is an apostate. Bowerman e
may not be a scholar, but he is in-
telligent and cultured and that isML
more than I can say at present for
any of the rest. Now for the long
range guns from the middle of Ohio; .118 MAIN STREET .
now for a barrage of gabage! 2
Lewisohn's narrative runs sweetly
until the Ohio State episode, it runs . The Shop of Satisfaction
with an even and beautiful note of=2
melancholy. It stays firm during all
his bitter years, through all his dis-
appointments and the struggles of=-
himself, of his parents, of his young 1 N 1 t l 1 t l 1 1 1 t1 1 1 I 1 N 1 lI I l
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