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"STRAWS AND PRAYER-BOOKS" By James Branch Cabell Robert M. McBride & Co. What are we to make of Mr. Cabell's epilogue to the great Biography of which we cannot bear to think as being ended? He has for so long been laughing at us, has he at last decided to talk to us seri- ously as man to man, or he is laughing harder than ever? Like the epilogue, of "St. Joan," is he saying "Now children, you are so stupid that of course you have missed the point to all this so I shall proceed to tell it to you"? Or is he merely blowing more bright hued bubbles for us to watch, and perchance to burst? Alas, Cabell can answer this. So, be that as it may, Mr. Cabell has written a most depressing and delight- ful book. He announces on page 3, that romance is all that makes life bearable. It is thanks to the maze of romance, written and unwritten, that surrounds us "that "Nobody really needs to notice how most of us, in unimportant fact, approach death through gray and monotonous cor- ridors." There is no hope in reality since man's knowledge and theories of life "are comparable, let us say, to the knowledge which a fly in a dining car possesses as to the management of rail- ways." But the creative romanticist alone can really escape the workaday world which is so abhorrent. And so mindful only of his own pleasure, Mr. Cabell has cre- ated for himself a world in which he can be happy. And in that world he has made no concessions to the useless world of facts. "Man is, they say, the only animal that has reason, and so he must have also, if he is to stay sane, diversion to prevent his using it." And so he plays as do infants with straws and old men with prayer-books, but the literary artist plays with "Common sense and piety--and death." Of course you have not believed a word of all this, but do remember one thing and that is, Mr. Cabell has learned the secret of beautiful writing and of diversion, PROFESSOR, HOW COULD YOU! 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Straight away south you go, into sunny waters. First you stop at the islands, just like Christopher Columbus. Then Gi- braltar--then Algeria. Then, my good- ness, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Palestine, Egypt. And more! And all that in seven weeks! And all the while sun- shine, and comfort, and gaiety. Can it be that such things really be! Come, let's run away on a Mediterranean Cruise. For details inquire at 127 S. State St. Cruise 7 Caribbean Romantic Fascinating Tropical West Indies On the S.S.MONTROYAL (formerly Empress of B.itain) From NEW YORK January 20, and February 21 Only a month from business Apply local agents or R. S. ELWORTHY Steamship General Agent Telephone Wabash 1904 71 E. Jackson Blvd, Chicago, Ill. | CANADIANPACIFIC| ALL FUR COATS materially reduced in price. This unusual- ly early SALE enables you to buy as advantageously now-- before the holiday sea- son--as later. vd FURS 220 Stewart Building 108 N. 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