Supplementary Reading Books-An extensive This is not our complete list, but it contains our leaders. We are continually adding to our titles and shall hope to acquaint you with them from time to time. Do name on our permanent mailing list? you care to have your We are glad to know what subjects most interest you, and to correspond with you. Union Square New York City THE CENTURY CO. Educational Department 623 South Wabash Avenue Chicago ease is to clear the alimentary canal of all the toxins of past food follies by eating Nature's food Shredded Wheat the food that keeps the bowels healthy and active by stimulating peristalsis in a natural way and at the same time supplies all the tissue-building material in the whole wheat grain prepared in a digestible form. T was three hundred miles due south ence now turned to gaze at the box. But the man to whom the outstretched hand was offered could not see it. At I was the that I had my first sight of he had caught up his over to one spring J. M. Barrie. Chance gave me an interview with his back. They were doing his "Pantaloon" at the Coliseum. It was the bill of the night, and a large audience filled the theater. Just before the hour for "Pantaloon," a white curtain was lowered in front of the regular stage curtain, as if in preparation for a stereopticon lecture. The auditorium lights were dimmed. Large pinkish letters began to appear on the white curtain, as if burning themselves there. Suddenly the letters glowed brighter until they read: To-day his Majesty has been pleased to confer a baronetcy of the kingdom upon James Matthew Barrie, Esq. at another was disappearing from the box like an apparition. like an apparition. Only his back was visible for a second-the back of a man whom ten titles cannot draw out of that wise, sensitive seclusion which alone keeps intact one's preferences and exclusions. It is only a short flight from the Coliseum across the Strand to No. 3 Adelphi Terrace House, where Barrie lives, overlooking the gardens of Victoria Embankment. But that night even so short a distance could not be covered quickly enough for Barrie to escape the crowd. He nearly escaped; in fact, he was certain of his success when around the corner he beheld a strange throng evidently waiting for him, though it was very dark and difficult to see well. It was a crowd, the very thing Barrie has a genius for eluding; but it was a gay, well-mannered, and gradually it became a vaguely familiar crowd, with happy faces, and dressed in charmingly varied costumes. There was no need for any words; the glad smiles on their faces said so much. They looked like children, some girls, some boys. There was a little lad in green breeches, with a charming, wistful face, Copyright, 1914, by THE CENTURY Co. All rights reserved. |