The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-25
THE LIBRARY

I might almost say, begin anywhere
in building your library. You might,
for instance, begin with perhaps the
most fascinating history ever written
John Richard Green's Short History
of the English People" There Is a
book with roots and branches. it you
like! It is book that would prob
ably attract more companions on your
! shelf than any other / could name. and
! books, too. Of the most comprehensive
diversity: Historians, philosophers.
politicians, poets. dramatists and nov
elists--every kind of writer that has
illustrated the various life of mankind.
Or still another excellent germinal
book would be Macaulay's Essays"
Superior persons may tell you that
Macaulay is played out. Don't you be-
lieve them. Read the essays for your
self and you will see. There is still
no more live book OF it's kind in Eng
fish. You may need to correct his facts
sometimes by other historians. Curl
ously enough, 1t is always the great
historians that need to have their fats
corrected. It is the little historians
who are always minutely accurate
the truth being that it is the spirit Of
| history that matters, not the small de-
tails. The facts OF a history. by the
very nature of evidence. can never be
absolutely accurate. It is the imagi-
native presentation and Interpretation
of facts that we ask from IA historian
Therefore. ! say. read Macaulay and
Carlyle and Froude. You might do
worse than start your library with
Froud's Lectures on the Life and
Times of Erasmus book
, with windows open on every side TO
human life and human history Rich
ard lie Gallienne.
/ Tribute to Selma LaEerIof.
f1j1~ +iry- f~ih IN al n
geriof and the significance of her art
lis by Miss Genevieve Larson, student
LOT Columbia university
You have fulfilled the portend OF your
Honored above all women Of your
Star of the North. the halo of your
Is like the midnight sun or northern
CLINE.
There lis no man so sunk in vices low,
But your discernment sees better
/ side;
There is no Judas coward whom you
know
That does not hold some hidden vein
of pride.
You stand detached and view with
kindly eyes
The stumbling. petty frailties OF
men.
You fan the spark beneath before II
dies,
BY subtle magic of your busy pen,
What voice Is this that speaks agar
| through you.
"Father. forgive them. for they know
not what they do?
II is learned through Miss I1aEerlori
publishers that she Is engaged upon {
new novel which win soon be read.
| for publication. A more detailed an
nonncement will be made later.
Love and Bank Accounts.
.The Gorgeous Girl" Is the title @
lNalhro Bartley's new novel which
doubleday. Page e. Co. announce 70
publication on March 90. 1t is a stor,
of business and love, of forum
which came too easily, Of man WIN
loved too hastily and had to start al
over again in both.
The characters are Steve OVallas
who has made a fortune and Marie
la former employers only daughter
1.-THE Gorgeous Girl, who, with two bail
accounts that beat as ONE Cher father
land Steves, fits from one fad to IN
other. all the cycle of amusements 70
1.-THE very idle rich; and slim, capabl
Mary Faithful, Steve's secretary.
| steve followed the Gorgeous Cir
adoringly for time. but his home Hf
grew more hectic every day. unit
J finally his only haven Of refuge We.
1.-THE shabby parlor of Mary Faithful