Repository: UIHistories Project: Magazine - Illinois Magazine Selections #2 (1917) [PAGE 11]

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S a t f t L t o p of broken r with th« tabWi Ian ™ ^ ^ crowded with gestici pe pirated E X eyes and a voic full of pa ae a narrow with sly lamps flick* ings llin trly morni :, w h e r e ! voices are whispers and men are bill gl «rred fat p rn < from windows . . . And somebody who had listened to the voice aid I worn I never heard it before." And the woman lid, "Why. it's nothing but Dvorak liun resqm n the lines— From out of the first printed page, a girl's hand reaching—more | ge and the shadowed eyes of a nun look forth . . . Now black-typed word blur into green meadows dotted with sheep under slumbrous skies. Again, the sorrowful ache of humaness steals from the lines like an evanescent perfume. But the reader who read type and type alone, exclaimed: "It hasn't any plot!" and brushed "Marie-Claire" aside. Within the silence— Stillness. Out of it the small voice of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. "Do you believe in fairies?" The feel of youth in one man's heart gave joyous answer to the appeal. He learned forward— The other man laughed sardonically. "Believe he i lyzed, "in fairies!" He tt ught he walked out on the ordinary floor of a theatre-pit. He didn't. He ;! on the "rainbow gleams of his childish dreams" all th way. Too mai m< are diseased with the malady of Ponce de 1 -n not illiteracy but I alness. If he had "believed because it was imp jibl instead of searching because he thought it possible, he would have >un the fountain of youth. Imagination is the vital quality oi' youngness \ man who is hopel ly literal is hopelessly old. Art keeps men young because it is composed of suggestions which appeal to the imaginal >n Analysis kills the subtleties which limit the perfect whole. The true essence of beauty is never tangible. Too much finger-pladnir the guilt of critics, has led the public to believe that all art can be treated' like an ordinary commodity. They would bottle the fountain of youth How seldom do men realize that the greatest tribute a work'of art can call lorth is not money or praise, but response to that suggestion which KM always behind the tune, between the Unes, within the ailenc*' Betw