GEO. P. BENT COMPANY Manufacturers of Artistic Pianos Retailers of Victrolas 214 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago Harold Bauer and the Mason & Hamlin Tension Resonator Having achieved in the Mason & Hamlin, the most beautiful piano tone the world has ever known, its makers, many years ago, set before themselves the problem of maintaining for all time, that which they had created. A system of highly tempered steel rods, running from various points of the grand piano rim to a common center, was evolved and termed the Mason & Hamlin Tension Resonator. This construction, which is to be found in no other piano, because patented, is the only known method of permanently preventing deterioration of tone quality through the otherwise inevitable flattening of the sounding-board. Harold Bauer was the first artist to use a Mason & Hamlin Tension Resonator Piano in public. In the fifteen years which have followed that epoch making event there have been but few really great artists who have not enthusiastically endorsed this great master’s final choice. CABLE PIANO COMPANY, Wabash & Jackson. A LITTLE EDITORIAL By Jessie Quitman Books are not articles of merchandise. They are the projected materialization of the human spirit. The hands of congenial souls alone must touch them. The spirits of books shrivel and droop in department stores and shops. Miss Cabaniss of the Venetian Library does not sell or loan books. She shares them with you. In her salon in the Venetian Building she may be found most any hour of the day. There also will be found the intellectual artistocracy of Chicago. After converse, any book may be taken home, in assurance and without fear, for it has been touched by no unholy hands. BUY YOUR BOOKS HERE If you wish to assist The Little Review without cost to yourself you may order books—any book—from the Gotham Book Society and The Little Review will be benefitted by the sales. By this method The Little Review hopes to help solve a sometimes perplexing business problem—whether the book you want is listed here or not the Gotham will supply your needs. Price the same, or in many instances much less, than were you to order direct from the publisher. All books are exactly as advertised. Send P. O. Money Order, check, draft or postage stamps. Order direct from the Gotham Book Society, 142 W. 23rd St., N. Y., Dept. K. Don’t fail to mention Department K. Here are some suggestions of the books the Gotham Book Society is selling at publishers’ prices. All prices cover postage charges. POETRY AND DRAMA