Part 14 (1/2)

Oh sorrow, Sorrow, She was too wise.

She cut off his hair, She put out his eyes.

Let Samson Be coming Into your mind.

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The following pages contain advertis.e.m.e.nts

of other books by the same author

which appeared in the 1918 copy.

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By the Same Author

A Handy Guide for Beggars New Edition. Cloth, 12mo, $1.25

”The Handy Guide for Beggars” is an introduction to all Vachel Lindsay's work. It gives his first adventures afoot. He walked through Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky, in the spring of 1906.

He walked through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and on to Hiram, Ohio, in the spring of 1908. He carried on these trips his poems: ”The Tree of Laughing Bells”, ”The Heroes of Time”, etc.

He recited them in exchange for food and lodging. He left copies for those who appeared interested. The book is a record of these journeys, and of many pleasing discoveries about American Democracy.

This book serves to introduce the next, ”Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty”. In the spring and summer of 1912, Mr. Lindsay walked from Springfield, Illinois, west to Colorado, and into New Mexico. He was much more experienced in the road.

He carried ”Rhymes to Be Traded for Bread”, ”The Village Improvement Parade”, etc. As is indicated in the t.i.tle, he wrestled with a theory of American aesthetics. ”Christmas, 1915”, the third book in the series, appeared, applying the ”Gospel of Beauty to the Photoplay”.

The ideas of Art and Democracy that develop in the first two books are used as the basic principles in ”The Art of the Moving Picture”.

Those who desire a close view of the Lindsay idea will do well to read the three works in the order named. Further particulars in the pages following.

The Congo and Other Poems With a preface by Harriet Monroe, Editor of the 'Poetry Magazine'.

Cloth, 12mo, $1.25; leather, $1.60

In the readings which Vachel Lindsay has given for colleges, universities, etc., throughout the country, he has won the approbation of the critics and of his audiences in general for the new verse-form which he is employing, as well as the manner of his chanting and singing, which is peculiarly his own. He carries in memory all the poems in his books, and recites the program made out for him; the wonderful effect of sound produced by his lines, their relation to the idea which the author seeks to convey, and their marvelous lyrical quality are quite beyond the ordinary, and suggest new possibilities and new meanings in poetry. It is his main object to give his already established friends a deeper sense of the musical intention of his pieces.

The book contains the much discussed ”War Poem”, ”Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight”; it contains among its familiar pieces: ”The Santa Fe Trail”, ”The Firemen's Ball”, ”The Dirge for a Righteous Kitten”, ”The Griffin's Egg”, ”The Spice Tree”, ”Blanche Sweet”, ”Mary Pickford”, ”The Soul of the City”, etc.

Mr. Lindsay received the Levinson Prize for the best poem contributed to 'Poetry', a magazine of verse, (Chicago) for 1915.

”We do not know a young man of any more promise than Mr. Vachel Lindsay for the task which he seems to have set himself.”--'The Dial'.

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems Price, $1.25; leather, $1.60

This book contains among other verses: ”On Reading Omar Khayyam during an Anti-Saloon Campaign in Illinois”; ”The Wizard Wind”; ”The Eagle Forgotten”, a Memorial to John P. Altgeld; ”The Knight in Disguise”, a Memorial to O. Henry; ”The Rose and the Lotus”; ”Michaelangelo”; ”t.i.tian”; ”What the Hyena Said”; ”What Grandpa Mouse Said”; ”A Net to Snare the Moonlight”; ”Springfield Magical”; ”The Proud Farmer”; ”The Illinois Village”; ”The Building of Springfield”.