Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-02-17
OPIE READ


'The world must not neglect the
book, says Opie Read, well-known
novelist, who will lecture here, Mon
day, Feb. 81.
''In the book" he continues, 'fman-
kind finds the record of itself dur
ing the ages in which it has risen
to its present Development. History
is the biography of men, and to neg
lect it IS worse than neglecting to
remember what ones own life has
been.
eff it We're not for the book, each
man would start where his father
started and any progress that he
might make would be lost with his
death. The trouble with the world
today is its neglect of the study of the
book. The possession of the book
marks the difference between a dark
age and an age of enlightenment.
"The thing that threatens to de-
stroy the world at the present mo-
ment in political history, is not boil
shevism, it is not extravaganza, is not
lack of religious fervor, is not spirit
uaiism, or any of the other evils that
are cried about the streets of the ma
ton in the press. The thing that is
undermining the foundations of our
civilization is the growing contempt
among the rank and file of the people
for what is called book learning
Book learning is the only learning in
the world. 1t is more than the facts
of which it is made; it is the life of
the world, and each man should know
it as well as he knows his own life"
Opie Read, the well-known novelist
and short story writer, has been Sc
cured to lecture here Feb. 81 on the
Lyceum course.
Almost everyone knows Opie Read.
He is, with one possible exception,
the author of more widely-read books
than any other living American au-
thor, and his ability on the platform
is as great as his excellence as an au-
thor.
Writing of Mr.. Read as a platform
man, the Redpath Bureau through
which he comes here, says: "Opie
Read is like no one else in the world.
His very presence lends a strange en-
chantment to his stories. You may
have enjoyed his books in the solitude
of your library, perhaps you have been
stirred by his plays or spent delight
full half-hours in the reading of his
clever character sketches, but unless
you have sat within the sound of his
voice and heard the quaint tales from
his own lips, you do not fully appre-
ciate the genius of the man."
Mr.. Read has been enthusiastically
received by audiences all over the
United States. The following COM
ment from the Cincinnati Enquirer is
typical of the impression made by him
as an entertainer: "a large audience,
composed of the best citizens, assem-
bled last evening to hear Opie Read,
the novelist and story-teller. The dis
tinguished gentleman was given a
hearty welcome. The entertainment
was a delightful one all the way
through and the audience was enthu-
siastic"
Mr.. Read it is said, is one celebrity
who can be depended upon to fill his
dates at the appointed time.
Opie Read, well-known novelist,
who will lecture here on the Lyceum
course, Feb. 27, has delighted bishops
and bellboys alike, says an article in
a recent number of the Century Mag
azine
The article in part is as follows:
"Opie Read has written and lectured
to a clientele that numbers millions.
Bishops and bell-boys have alike
chuckled over his whimsical Linn
| Jucklin', who is after all only the ever
philosophical mind of Opie Read en-
fieshed in the old mountaineer. 1t is
of interest that Opie Read has gath
cred together one of the finest Eliza
bethan libraries that exist as a pri-
vate collection. In a club corner his
conversation takes you back to the
play of minds that made the Coffee
Houses of Old England famous. He
is golf enthusiast, an Unsuitable and
painstaking worker, a master of the
lost art of letter writing. One of his
letters, written in a hand like steel en-
craving, is a rare possession. 1t is a
joy to walk with him down country
road, for he is on terms of intimacy
with all the birds and fowers,---a John
Burroughs and Theodore Roosevelt
in one"