Judge — October 23, 1915 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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ow A BIRTHDAY CAKE for the MIND delivered freshly baked and with candles lighted once every month Take the best theatrical magazine, add the best humorous periodical, stir in The Sketch and The Tatler from London, pour in one or two reviews of art, sprinkle with a few outdoor sports, add a French flavoring—say of La Vie Parisienne, mix in a hundred or two photo- graphs and sketches, add a dozen useful departments, add a magazine of fashion and then one of literature, add humors for raisins and follies for spice, frost with a cover in four colors, cook with ten dollars’ worth of laughs, use the fripperies, vanities, dances and decadent arts for your little red candles, and the result will be VANITY FAIR the most talked of and most successful of all the new magazines; the magazine which makes every day a birthday; in entertainment, in good fellowship, in memories, in anticipation. Ask your newsdealer to show you a copy Special Offer Six Months for One Dollar Vanity Fair costs 25 cents a number or $3.00 ayear. Readers of this magazine using the Coupon at the left can have a six months’ “trial” subscription for One Dollar. CONDE NAST, Publisher FRANK CROWNINSHIELD, Editor °S PRESS CUTTING BUREAU And Draw will send you all newspaper clip- For Magazines pings which may appear about Tapa easy mero aid pens of inporans ill agp too "up-to-date." Ev per an ical of i ance i a the United States and Europe is searched. Terms, $5.00 Sh ener A re rrwuaee Earn Big Money 1 Proviedieepesiee ‘Write for Illustrated booklet, terms and list HENRY ROMEIKE, 106-110 Seventh Ave., N.Y. ASSOCIATED ANT STUDIOS, 2124 Flatiron Bidg., N.Y. Judge’s Between Covers 66YICHAEL O'HALLORAN,” by Geng Stratton-Porter. — Constituti there must be something wig Tae a We have, in RT wit sincerity and with | absolute lack of SUCCESS, attempt, successively is weep over “Free. kles,” sob as we te read “The Girl of the Limberlos,.” , and i : GENE STRATTON PORTER “The pee It is annoyi be at odds with the 300,000 lovers offs rature who are going to buy Mrs, Porters | hewest nov att Theexplanation must lie in our abhorrene | of the’ perfect. ‘The average 99.44% pure be hero holds no terror for us; but the Strattoo. whe Porter hero—a cross between Sir Galahad onda and the school teacher's pet—fills us with ( dismay. Michacl—like Freckles—and the bia Limberlost lady—and the Harvesting gen. dead tleman—is a vision of sticky virtue. He adopts a crippled orphan, supervises ke | 5 education, reforms a newspaper, remodels ! ) a houschold, saves an estimable gentleman your from disgrace, and coins almost enough | epigrams to fill the gaps between his kindly \ ministrations. mont We would not be thought trifling nor ani. J ficial in expressing such an opinion. Mrs Porter is at least a true observer of nature, and is most comprehensive in her descrip. tion of wild-flowers. Unfortunately, bow- ever, we have never cared particularly for wild-flowers, a \ “Nicky-Nan, Reservist,” by “Q” (St J Ie A. T. Quiller-Couch). nolas Nanjivel, “ commonly known as “Nicky-Nan,” isa | “E crippled reservist. who occupies the fore- H ground of the story. But the background ox is more important. ‘The author has caught “9 the quaint charm of the small Comish A vi with its quiet vistas and its energetic Dever females. And behind it all we can see the hand of war gripping at the very heart of the sleepy village. * “Two Sinners,” by Mrs. David G Ritch the story of three interesting s* ters—one of whom was married, another who wanted to be, but couldn't, and a third who could have been—but didn’t want to. It is a story of that slightly better than middle-class life so often the novelist’ material. There are some rather acute stud ies of feminine nature. 2 “The Pearl Fishers,” by H. de Ver Stacpoole. Since this story is chiefly about Solomon Islanders, and Solomon Islandes are neutral, there is little chance for the author to resort to Red Cross nurses shrapnel. But the reader will find plesty of excitement. There are wrecks, heroes adventures, pearls, plots and countesplts