Lew Sarett's 'Many, Many Moons' is Month's Best Seller At Co-Op

Daily Illini May 2, 1920. Lew Sarrett was a popular English professor at the University of Illinois in 1920. He moved on to Northwestern over the protests of his students in 1920.

"'Many, Many Moons', the book poems by Lew Sarett, which has recently been published is our best seller this month," said Mr. Frank D. Garland, manager of the book department, of the Co-Op. "We have sold over 200 copies already and the book's popularity is increasing".

"Books about Lincoln always sell well, too," continued Mr. Garland. "Just now he is having quite a vogue. A short story by Ida Tarbell called "In Lincoln's Chair" has just come out. The play, "Abraham Lincoln", by John Drinkwater, is one of our popular looks.

"Since the Devereaux Players have been here, a demand has come for "Arms and the Man" by Bernard Shaw," he went on.

Can't Pronounce French
"A curious thing about the students of foreign languages, especially the students of French, is that they seldom, if ever, ask for the book they want for their classes by its French title. They hesitate and mispronounce it, or else side-step it altogether and ask for ,'that book for that French so-and-so," remarked Mr. Garland.

"Socialism books are in demand, also. I think it is because people want to find out what socialism really is, rather than that there are many would be Bolsheviks among us. Speaking of socialism, a recent cartoon by McCutcheon pictured a room in a farmhouse as having a book case full of books! Now, who ever saw a farmhouse with a big library? There are few books in the average farm and those usually total a Bible and a Sears-Roebuck catalog, and sometimes not even the Bible.

Literature From Russia
"It is surprising how few people know that there is a Russian literature. But it is coming into prominence of late. Volumes of Oriental poetry, especially Chinese poetry, are being read more than formerly.

"No," said Mr. Garland, 'we are not ordering heavily just now. We have large orders in for books to be shipped here in the fall, but spring is here, and the combination of a fire and a pipe and a book is losing its hold, although reading of a sort goes on all summer.