Meant to make easy the task of those who review novels without reading them and to awaken the interest of others who read novels without reviewing them. This is the story of the Hailey Compton Village Pageant. Pageants, good and bad, great and small, were commonplace affairs a few years ago. Every summer half a dozen of them were widely advertised and probably a dozen more ran blameless courses unnoticed except by those who took part in them. They were started by enthusiasts, worked up by energe