The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-04-02
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Sentinel is authorized % n Hon. JEFF Busby OF Chckasaw
County as a candidate for Congress.
ANNOUNCEMENT
An Education for All.

Some among you are familiar with great books. Circumstances have
been such that you could indulge in the fascinating, educatfve and highl,
profitable pursuit of reading; especially in the by-paths of great fiction
Do you realize how fortunate you have been? Reading a representative
number of the classic novels has given you culture and placed you on
pinnacle above many of your neighbors.
Some of you regret that you have not been so fortunate. In assem-
bages of the gifted and learned, when the talk turned upon literature and
noted writers, you perhaps felt a sense of inferiorty or mediocrty. You
lamented lost opportunities or the lack of them.
Unable to maintain yourself in a discussion in which you were handi
capped, you did the next best thing and listened. Going away you resolved
to remedy your defects and become a reader Of books. But when you
went to the book stores or the Libraries and contemplated the vast array
the long list of authors and the evidences of their industry, the task, how
ever attractive it might be in theory, became simply appalling in practice
Your work, your home and public duties and all the unavoidable demands
upon your time made it impossible. If denied the advantages OF a cir
culating library, the expense involved in the purchase of books frequently
became a prohibitve item.
1t takes months, even years to get a fair start, to say nothing 3 of
burrowing deeply into the great mass Of volumes and tones In many
cases the reading of a single important book will consume ones leisure
for weeks. However attractive the study and boundless your enthusiasm,
other considerations thwarted your intentions.
Scientific, historical and general knowledge has been condensed into
encycopedias-handy volumes for busy people. Language has it's die
tOnaries which give at a glance pithy, accurate definitions with the origin
and various applications of each word. Why, you ask, has not literature,
especially fiction which represents the spirit, the culture and the main
springs Of human activities of all times, been Sc condensed or rendered into
q more convenient form?
Exactly that service has been performed by a coterie of scholars, au.
thors and other distinguished persons. We propose to relay it to you
through these columns at no additional expense to you. All the great
books of the world have not been condensed. but enough of the fiction has
been dealt with to cover the field. The condensations are not mere
synopses skeleton outlines. They are novels reduced to the limits Of
q short story retaining the plots characters chief incidents atmosnbera
spirit and charm of the originals. Each condensation averages about two
columns in length and al be read in Is to 20 minutes.
Works having a special application have been treated by people with
epCChd huOWlcuSS OF ApcIlcHCc diOuS tuOoSI ueS. TOT IslduCt, III pOuI.
cal and historical novels of Winston Churchill, which take high rank in
American literature, have been condensed: "The Crisis" by William
Howard Taft, ex-president Of the United States; "Coniston" by Samuel
v. Mccall and Orchard Carvef' by David l. Walsh, ex7governors OF
Massachusetts,.
Kiplngs Captains Courageous" Defoe's Robinson Crusoe" and
other nautical tales, rs we'll as some of the works of James Fenimore
Cooper have been condensed by James B, Connolly, the well known writer
of sea stories. Librarian Bolton of the Boston Athenaeum and Richard
Henry Dana of Cambridge, have handled Thackeray; Librarian Belden
of the Boston Public library has condensed some o. the stories of Dickens;
Enery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, George Eliots "Adam
Bede" The editor and proprietor of the Boston News Bureau, an organi-
izatiOn devoted entirely to the dissemination of business neW has COL.
licensed "The Turmoil" Booth Tarkington's great novel of American
business life.
ing works of Scott, Bulwer, Dumas, Hawthorne, Bunyan, Gaboriau, Caine,
Hugo, Doyle, Irving, Homer, Virgil, Kingsley, Mulock, Stowe, Hardy
iReade, Twain, Stevenson, Marryat and many others. Distinguished
;colege men, such as William Fenwick Harris of Cambridge, I. L. Hood
end Capt. Andre Morize Of Harvard; and distinguished authors, such asI
John Kendrick Bangs, Cyrus Townsend Brady, Caroline Wells, Mary E
sMikins-Freeman, and others have made the condensatons. A score were
achieved through a prize competition, the best work being selected by .
committee of experts.
The educational value of these condensatons cannot be exaggerated
They will also delight and satisfy. Through them you wihin a short time
find yourself we'll informed on literature and you will have acquired the
knowledge easily and pleasantly. The condensatons will prove that the
best books re neither highbrow mol dull but on the contrary most fasci-
mating. Order your paper In time to start with the beginning OF the
condensed classics.
The many murder trials that are just now claiming the at
tention of Mississippians, should give III serious concern. AS
that are horribly shocking are reported in differ
ent localities and men are whipping out their concealed weap-
ons and sending their fellows into eternity with the smallest
provocation. When a man kills another with a concealed
,veanon. he should, ipso facto, be guilty of murder or man.
slaughter. Real honest men, men with a right conception OF
their duty to their felowman, have no use for a pistol stuck
under the tails of their coats.
State Fair Price Commissioner must have gone on nall
cooked on the prices which we published two weeks agolne
has hacked off of many of them. He should have known wna1
no was doing before undertaking to fix prices and then, II ne
was right, he should have stuck to it until the lower regions ;9as
an ice, box. There was manifestly gross inequalities
in the first list published, especially as to hardware and wagons
The CONDENSED Classics" which we purpose to begin next
+raaE or week thereafter, will furnish a rare opportunity to
study the works of some of the most renowned IN iterature.