Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — AN EVENING WITH. OPIE READ. [ARTICLE]

AN EVENING WITH. OPIE READ.

Some Press Comments On the Next Lecturer. Alton, - Ill.—The audience last evening was highly pleased with the program presented. Opie Read, the king of American funmakers, gave a number of his popular writings, and delighted everybody. There is great charm in his productions, and to hear them from the lips of him who wrote is yet more interesting. Tales of Southern life, now weird, now laughter-producing, were all given in the quaint, characteristic style of the author. Chicago Tribune.—Opie Read’s reputation as a novelist and storyteller of the charming old southern type, and some of those remarkably clever versified productions that have made his name a familiar one wherever periodicals are read, call forth the literary appreciation their, entertainment richly deserves. Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal. —Opie Read is a wonderful delineator of character, strong, clear, and full of a truth as pungent as the scent of walnut in the woods*, careful and clear in diction, and never an involved sentence; an' artist in the interpretation of his own work. In his sky there is many a beautiful tint, sunsets of rest and sunrises of promise; and in his words there are thrilling notes, while everywhere In the air about us we hear the sharp cry. “Truth, truth!” How genuinely American, how live a production of his native soil!