The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-02-12

Broun's editorial will be of particu
lar interest to many Herald readers
1t follows herewith:
"Out Of the London Times come!
the following advertisement, which
may have great bearing on the de
velopment of American literature:
can American author and his
wife, with z year old son, educat-
ed in England, are going around
the world in leisurely way, oc-
cupying one year or more. They
require for their son an abso-
lutely competent man or woman,
under 35, who can speak perfect
French or teach Latin in the
desert or supervise the boys
welfare in Picking, while the par
ents wander. Answer by post
only, Sinclair Lewis, 43 Park
Lane, W.
"Here is ample field for comment
and speculation. One might wander
down the depression of whether any
man or women under 35 is absolute
ly competent. Then, too, there is the
interesting ground of guess as to
whether the little Lewis will learn his
Latin in the desert from the lips of
man or woman. I think I might be a
far different person if l had first met
"amo, amas, amat" in the shadow of
the pyramids, particularly if the in
PRODUCTION had been made by a lady
less than 35 and absolutely competent
"But the major interest in the par.
agraph from the Personal column
must lie in the fact that Sinclair Lewis
is seeking to find that place where
Min Street leaves off and he may turn
a corner. I think know what he
hopes to come upon around that bend.
In Rabbit and in Main Street
there was yearning. Sometimes this
hunger so nagged Lewis that he spoke
harshly to the characters in his books
and cuffed them about. He berated
them because they knew not beauty.
That was the trouble with both Cop
her Prairie and Zenith.
"And in the mind of Sinclair Lewis
this beauty, this commodity, seemed
to be thought Of as something upon
which the eager could lay hands. You
should see, touch and even bite into
it. But though the precious stuff lay
all about the laundering Rabbits, the
author himself never quite got around
to marking down the spot where the
cross was made and the shovel should
strike.
sI went away from the books with
the notion that, although Lewis had
heard of beauty from travellers and
explorers, he himself had never quite
come upon it. And yet he believed.
He had faith. But now he demands
sign and he will search for it, leisure
ly. That is the correct way. An
end, too intent on getting down the
field, often overruns his man, and
lust so the beauty seeker may stumble
On and past the thing he is after II
,e goes full tilt. 1t is better to david
e. and the knig ht-errant should car
" a walking stick with which to poke
about, and stir up dust, and turn
.ocks over for sight of the under
tide.
"It may be then, that on some Ger
ain afternoon, in far place, Sim
lair Lewis will reach the very an
.bor.oe of that mirage which he first
conceived as he walked on Main
street and tried to round corner.
gain, he may wander the world only
@ find that Main Street goes all tne
yay around and that there is no turn-
ng. H. I'LL, MORO
ragic possibility that once, upon re,
urning to the carefully supervised
,oungster, the little Lewis will look
IN to say, while you were away yes
erdav. wandering, beauty came by
md looked in at the window"