Judge — October 16, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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fl Mi, Ag | He's a hero now. — HARKING BACK —But wait—he may give it to his wife— ‘TO HISTORY—REMEMBER DEWEY. eyes —and then NOTES OF A BOOKWORM. ULER in literature should be careful to avoid being like of the cellars of a country The latter should always be dry as a bone, but a surfeit of aridity in the former would create a de- cided drought on royalty day. We have just received a handsomely printed copy of the Payne Tariff Bill. It is wholly lacking in humor, and proves a heavy tax upon the patience of the reader. We un- derstand that it contains a plot, but after reading it carefully a half dozen times we are forced to admit that it is skillfully concealed. We shall be sur- prised if this work becomes popular. A pleasant book for hammock reading by a confirmed sufferer from insomnia is the New York Telephone Book tor 1909. It is full of live people and, though lacking in sustained interest, will occupy a leisure half hour with- out unduly taxing the reader's mind. A delver into curious and interesting facts has discovered that all the best literature of the English-speaking writers of all time can be found in a single volume, namely, Webster's Dictionary. By asimple rearrangement of the words all the stories of the past can made to reveal themselves. An interesting little booklet, entitled A Woman's Check Book, While it may be said to lack balance, and is in many ways overdrawn, it is full of humorous figures, and demon- “sin an appealing way how much can sometimes be made of ny if one goes at it with determination. It will incite no little amusement in the financial world. ‘ll-known English publishing house has recently published some rather clever plays by a young playwright of Stratford-on- who writes under the name of William Shakespeare, The work shows considerable promise, although the young dramatist ap- drawn freely, and without acknowledgment, from ard Cyclopedias of Useful Quotations. We shall look for fur- ther work from this hand with considerable interest. » new edition of the Social Register reveals the interesting fact that the New York Four Hundred now number approximately en thousand two hundred and eighty-six members, At ‘ate of increase ‘air to assume that by 1920 the member- || reach the enormous figure of a million and a half, indicat- a wave of social prosperity of great magnitude is sweeping * country. The most popular books of last week, as evidenced by the calls is just received. ing th; over tl at the Carnegi: bassador to Library, of Togus, Conn., were How To Be an Am- t Britain on Ten Dollars a Week, The Great Di- vide: A Series of Extracts from the Check Book of a Tammany Politician; Three Strikes and Out: A Story of To-day, Yesterday and the Day Before, Not To Mention To-morrow, by William Jen- nings Billikens; the Official Register and Directory of the Women's Clubs of America, and the Tribune Almanac for 1879. THE INCOME TAX. OOD gracious, how we find it galls! And doesn’t it seem yellow! Unless, perchance, it only falls Upon the other fellow. NO LOSS. First author—"* Do you ever lose any of the MSS. you send out?”” Second author—" No; they all come back.”” DR. ELIOT'S SELECTION. '(O WONDER that this list should pain Our *‘ literary fellers,"” The five-foot shelf does not contain One of the six best sellers. A GooD SOME OF ALL-AROUND EMPLOYE— ‘THE “THINGS HE DOES. comicbooks.com