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Adventurer Cunninghame Graham wanted to go to Tarudant, Moorish town, forbidden to Christians, beyond Africa's Atlas Mountains. That was in 1897. The following year he wrote a book about his journey; this is the first American edition. Tarudant was a dangerous place for a white man, more dangerous for a Christian, so Cunninghame Graham dressed in Moorish fashion, called himself Sheikh Mohammed el Fasi. With him went a Syrian interpreter, a bearded Riff, several followers. Starting from Mogador on the coast they struck inland to the mountains, got safely through a pass only to be arrested by the Raid of Kintafi. He kept them prisoners politely for 12 days, then let them return, would not hear of their going on to Tarudant.
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, 78, is a Scotch baronet with Spanish blood. Famed traveler, he spent much of his youth ranching in Texas, knows Spain, Morocco, South America, Mexico intimately. A contemner of European civilization, he is fond of comparing its vices to the virtues of more primitive societies. He is a great & good friend of George Bernard Shaw, of the late great William Morris, Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody), Theodore Roosevelt, Stephen Crane (TIME, March 3), Charles S. Parnell. He looks like Don Quixote, but has not the famed knight's naivete. Other books: Thirty Tales and Sketches, A Vanished Arcadia, Faith, Hope, Charity, The Conquest of the River Plate, Doughty Deeds.
Specialist
I'LL TELL YOU WHY—Chic Sale— Specialist Publishing Co. ($1).
Hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens have heard or read a story by one Chic Sale called The Specialist:* a humorous monolog supposed to be delivered by a country carpenter who specializes in building outhouses. I'll Tell You Why is its echo: another rambling, anecdotal discourse on the same theme. The Specialist, now admittedly at the top of his profession, has been asked to address "The Young Men's Business Breakfast Club." Says he: "Your chairman has asked me to talk on and point out such problems and pitfalls as confront the businessman of today—and I'll tell you why."
Says Newspaperman 0. 0. Mclntyre, introducing I'll Tell You Why: "Chic Sale is one of the bright-eyed robins of life who has preserved our vanishing emotional nexus with the turkey-wing stove duster, the carpeted brick door-holder, wax doves' under glass on the parlor mantel and other mid-Victorian what-nots." Through the muddle of Newspaperman Mclntyre's metaphors you see what he means, see there is some truth in what he tries to say.
Author Charles (Chic) Sale, young (36), actor, vaudevillian, in one of his acts used to impersonate the Specialist; the act be came his most successful one. Says he: at the suggestion of two friends he wrote down the monolog, had it printed. He expected his friends to buy it, hoped to sell 2,000 or 3,000 copies. For over a year the booklet was a bestseller, for nine months last year led all other U. S. books. Last month The Specialist Publishing Co. announced a pre-publication sale of I'll Tell You Why of 100,000 copies. But Chic Sale, best-seller author, has not retired from the boards. So This is Paris, musi-comedy opening in Atlantic City April 14, had an old gaffer in its cast: sharp-sighted program readers recognized Chic Sale.
Millionaire Miser