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THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE

SUNIJAY, MAY 21, V)22

what would his wealth do for her?" the martyred governor, John Altgeld, -""""""""
This was the starting point of and also for his deep feeling for Lin-
"Money Magic." Bertha became "Mrs. coln. = s I
Maney,' and the osey is anaattempt Although Vachel LiEdyay's homeca B a c
to take up Mart Haney'a back trail jbalays teen in Sprinrglield, his edo Ency lopae ia rian ic
and the way of his wife's broadening cation and travels have given him an _ _ _ __ _
character as a new-born western mil- unusually varied background. After
lionaire, the owner of houses and auto- attending the Springfield Hig-Seihool
mobiles, dogs and horses. She be- and tHiram College he went to the Ci-CVolumes
came an example of the power of eago Art Institute and later to the Complete Set - 29
.money to.develop the good in a girl's New York School of Art. Ile was aro
character. * * art student for ten years, and lectured Limp Le'ather - India a
All this is to say that my work from for tfiree winters at the Metropolitan.p
first to last is based upon the life I ie has since become the moving pi-
saw and the life I lived. As a farmer oture critic for the, New Republic.A}
boy in Wisconsin, as youth andtnan In addition to his poetical works As new .......... $75.00
in Iowa, as a squatter and store- which include "The Congo," "Genoeral
keeper in Dakota, and as trailer and oWilliam Booth Enters Into Heaven"Catalogue Prue $145.00
goldseeker and amateur cattleman, I "The Chinese Nightingale," "TheC a e c 4
obtained the mass of material which Golden Book of Springfield," and "The
has gone into the muaking of my many Golden Whales of California," he has
books. With all their faults-and they written three volumes of prose, "Ad-
are many--they help to form a record vent ures While Preaching the Gospel
of that marvellous era of American of Beauty," "The Art of the Moving
settlement between the close of the Picture," and "A Handy Guide for Other Bargains in Standard Books
Civil, War and the beginning of the lieggars."
Great European War. " * But Vacel Lindsay is more than an
This much of merit I venture to artist, a critic, a poet and a writer of
claim;; I have kept pretty consistently ;prose. lie is entertainer extraordi-
to the land and the people I knew the noary to othe American public, for he
est. Perhaps in this way and by a is one of the few poets who do full
kind of forced industry I have added justice to their own work when read-UNIVERSITY
something to the permanent recorti of it ialoud his audience is given
the time. torttoe than an evening of poetry andti. \BO\K ATOR1 E1R S3
looture.' lThey are permitted to enjoy
VACHELI SI. Y a real performance of "The Iligherl
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"Deop, deep below the bay, the sea-
weed and the spray,
Embalmed in amber every pirate
lies,
Embaled in amber every pirate
It is a slow, delicious line, well
worth repeating for the sheer pleasure
of its melliluous syllables. "The
Chinese Nightingale" is, it seems to
tote, the most beautiful and whimti-'al
poem that Lindsay has written. It
does not contain any of the jazz or
the crudity for which some of his
verses are criticized, but is instead
full of a fleet and lovely music.
"Then sang the bird so strangely
gay, We wish to draw your special attention to our showing of white Flannels.
Fluttering, fluttering, ghostly and
gray, It is not often that we have been able to show such an unusual stock at such
A vague, unravelling, answering
tme, nreasonable prices. $8.00 to $12.00.
Like a long unwinding silk cocoon";
The story does not especially con-
cern us. It is the tune that is en-
chanting, Here, for instance, one is
lost tunconscious of the question
for the sound it is so absorbing:
"Whatt was my toatue in the dragon-
In the rings of the rainbowed rain?"
Now and again, however, there is a
pohraso equally tmemorable for its We also wish to emphasize'the unusual values found in our Halifax Tweeds
thosghot snot betouty:
".,...a Chinese lady of high degree, and Palm Beach Suits and Golf Sweaters. You are always able to use
With a scornful, witching tea-rose
faco......"
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deftly or deicately than does the
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tea-rose face .....'
Although Vachel Lindsay It usually
thought of as a poet of sound, a poet Palm Beach Suits from $10.00 up-These are all ready to wear.
of speed and thunder, much of his best
work owes its chief appeal to its earn-
estness. "Abrattm Lincoln Walks at
Midnight" has t grave simplicity well-
suited to the subject, and "The Eagle
that is Forgotten" is serisots antd tug-
toiflet, tooth ttf thotothlfotl sympathy
"The Eagle That h Forgotten" bears
the sub-title (John P. Altgeld. Born
Decether 20, 1847; tied March 12, 604 EAST LIBERTY STREET
1902). Vactel Lindsay's house in
Springfeld, Illinois, where he was
born and still lives, is next door to "Quality first - Economy always
the Executive mansion of the state,
and this circumstance doubtless had
much to do with his enthusiasm for