comicbooks.com Join Free

Life, 1883-08-23 · page 2 of 16

Life — August 23, 1883 — page 2: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Life — August 23, 1883 — page 2: Life, 1883-08-23

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content**, not political cartoons. It contains: **Left column:** Book advertisements (Richter's *Invisible Lodge*, Auerbach's novel, Henry Holt & Co. publications) and notably Marian Harland's serialized story "Judith: A Chronicle of Virginia" in the Illustrated Weekly Magazine. **Center:** Advertisements for *The Season* (a New York society record), *The Critic* (a weekly literary review), and *The Continent* (a newspaper). **Right column:** Summer resort advertisements for hotels including Parker House (Boston), Hotel Netherwood (New Jersey), Spring House (Richfield Springs), The Fenimore (Cooperstown), Otsego Lake, and The Cooper House. **No political satire or caricatures are visible.** This appears to be a typical late-19th-century *Life* magazine page mixing literary promotion with travel/hospitality advertising.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

-NEW PUBLICATIONS. ‘LIFE: NEW PUBLICATIONS. SUMMER RESORTS. Richter's Invisible ‘Lodge. From the German of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter. By Charles T. Brooks. 16mo, Leisure-Hour Series, $1 ; Leisure-Moment Series, 30 cents. Auerpacu’s PostHumous Nove. Master Bieland and his Work- men. By Berthold Auerbach. cock, ure-Moment Series, 20 cents. HENRY HOLT & CO,, : NEW YORK. Translated by E. Han- MARIAN HARLAND’ Ss. fUDITH:” A eee Li OF OLD VIRGINIA, JUST BEGUN IN THE CONTINENT Illustrated Weekly Magazine. MARIAN HARLAND is a genuine American author whom life abroad has only made riper and richer in thought, and more earnest in her devotion to her native land, whose life she does not re- gard as designed simply to furnish a coun- terfoil to foreign perfectibility. The unlovely sides of the old Southern life have so often been painted, that it is well that a loving hand should trace its bright- er features. In “ Judith" the author describes the land of her birth, and portrays the scenes and society in which her girlhood was passed. “ The domestic life of this region is rapidly changing; | and this record of its picturesque phases, from a woman whose faculty for observation and skill in narrative are well known, will possess much interest." —Wew York Tribune. The story will be illustrated by W. L. Sheppard and A. B, Frost. FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS. THE CONTINENT, Now DETTER THAN EVER, MAY BE HAD: 1. From the beginning of * Judith” until Feb. 1, 188, se oer begii f * Judith il J. 2. From the sinning of “ Judith * until January 1, 1884, with back numbers from January 1, 1883, for Prag ‘3. From the beginning of * Judith” until Jan. 1, 1884 with Judge Tourgee’s last novel, “Hot Plowshares’? Gre pages, illustrated), for $3 4. From’ the beginning of “ Judith”* until January 1, 18%4, with back numbers from January 1, 1883, handsomely bound in silk cloth, for $3 50. g Forone year beginning with any number fr $4. For one year, with Judge Tourgee's “Hot” Plow. shares" for $3.50. ADDnESS, ox. , The Continent eS es Gsy Oon, ELeventn AnD Sivas Onesteut STs, 16mo, Leisure-Hour Series, $1 ; Leis- | | its utterances."'—NOTES AND QUERIES. “* It will be welcomed."—Mew York Tribune. THE SEASON, An Annual Record of Society in New York, Brooklyn and the Suburbs. Crushed strawberry cloth, gilt edges and stamp, 420 pp. Contains descriptions of all the notable weddings, public and private dinner-parties, balls, club-meetings, receptions, theatricals, germans, musicals, the Coaching Club's parade, the Kirmess, the Hunt, Steeplechases, and all social events from August, 1882, to June 10, 1833. Arranged alphabetic- ally with a classified index. It will be found entertaining for summer reading, valuable as history, convenient for reference and of nal interest to every one in ciety. The introduction contains essays by Dr. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and “M. E. W. Te tomtaing the halbar aod fines, social Teviews, critiques, etc. most graphic account of the Fancy Dress Ball. foAhE Mest Prominent people in society have subscribed for it. Fe sale,at Baunrang's a firstclae bookstores ip the P. Janxixs, Bellevue Ave., New- | feet See Viosdway, ‘Saratoga, and at Watering Published by WHITE, STOKES & ALLEN, New Yorx. \ Seat by mail on receipt of price, $3 00, by the editor, C. H. CRANDALL, Tripune EpiroriaL Rooms, NEw YorK. Tue CRITIC. A WEEKLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE, Tue FineArts, ScIENcE, Music, Toe Drama. Epitors, - J. L.& J. B. GILDER. “The first literary Journal in America. | Its specialty is short reviews and many of them ; but we do not observe that quality is, sacrificed."—LONDON ACADEMY. “Tue Critic has become a positive and indispensable part of American literature.” —SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN. | “Tue Critic has made ttself known in | America by the independence and ability of “At the head of the critical Journals of this country.” —Boston Post. For sale at all news stands. Single Copies, 10 Cents; $3.50 per year in advance. To Teachers and Clergy- | men, $3.00. Remit only by post-office | order, express order, registered letter, or check, Address THE CRITIC, 30 Lafayette Place, New York. | the expense and discor PARKER HOUSE EUROPEAN PLAN. Harvey D. Parker & Co, BOSTON, MASS. MARVRY D, PARKER, JOSEPH W BECKMAN, KDWARD 0. PUNCHARD. Hotel Netherwood, On Jersey Centra R. R. 45 ures FROM FOOT OF LiBeRTY STR New Yor This ma, d elegantly appointed hotel will be open for of guests June asth. The hotel a complete in all its appolatsments) contains’ sco rooms (a suits with private bath elevator, electric bells, and every convenience for the comfort of guests who desire the advan. pure ‘mountain, air and surroundings and avert fort of protracted railroad travel, ‘The hotel is of brick, six stories in height, commanding ax unobstructed and charming view, and but two mingier walk from the Netherwood station, Delighful drives and stablin Now open for inspection and engagements, Reduced rates. S. V. WOODRUFF Propr. "NINTH SEASON. SPRING HOUSE, RIcuFIELD Sprinas, N. Y., OPEN SATURDAY, JUNE, 16TH. risenall Its well known standard of excellence will.be fully maintained, T. R. PROCTOR. Applications for rooms should be addressed to W. H. De Vinnie, Gilsey House, N. Y., until | Jane roth, THE FENIMORE, COOPERSTOWN, OTSEGO CO.,N.Y. This new and elegant hotel will open for the season about June 1s, Fine boating, bathing, fshing and driving. Send for circular. ‘WM. H. BURROUGHS, Proprietor. OTSEGO LAKE. | COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK. Eighteen hundred feet above the level of the sea, Driving and boating unsurpassed. Malaria, hay fever and mosquitoes unknown. THE COOPER HOUSE, which has accommodation for five hundred guests, Address, E, CRITTENDEN, Proprietor. is now open. comicbooks.com