Life — July 24, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE- lived nearly twenty years in Ireland, he was not an Irishman. Do not be led astray by this fact. Neither was he an Agi- tator, although it is said that he was considerably agitated when his house was sacked and burned, and his child mur- dered by rebels. In regard to his principal work, the Fairy Queen, do not be discouraged because you cannot make out its plot—Nobody can. It has no plot. Its greatest charm lies in the sensuous beauty of its lan- guage. It may be used with great effect to produce somno- lence in your girl’s father after dinner. Ask him if he is fond of Allegory, and if he says, yes (thinking it is something to eat), fire the I. book at him. Read judicious selections to the little creature and he will at first gasp, then gurgle, and soon become unconscious. III. MILTON. EGIN with his poetry, because he is best known as a poet, and besides, if you began with his prose you never would get through with it, and hence would never reach his poetry, which is his stronghold. Take up the “Paradise Lost” and read it steadily through; afterwards, if you feel hungry, you might begin “ Paradise Regained.” If you suc- ceed in finishing both, and your general health is still good, you might star about the country as the Man with the Iron Nerve. Do not confuse these poems with John T. Raymond's play, “In Paradise.” There is no connection. Avoid condemning Milton because he speaks as if there was a hell. Remember that a certain poetical license is always allowable, and recall the fact that he had three wives. Henry Holt & Co. HAVE JUST READY: LIFE OF ¥OHN KALB, Major General in the Revolutionary Army.’ [By Friedrich Kapp. ramo, $1.75. THE MISTRESS OF IBICHSTEIN, By Fr. Henkel. Translated by S. E. Boggs. x6m0, Leisure Hour Series, $1.00; Leisure Moment Series, 30 cents. NEW AND CHEAP EDITION, IN PAPER COVERS, AT $1.00, OF The Summer School of Philosophy RENDER: VNTO SCIS§SOR$ THOSE THINGS ‘WHICH ARE 5CIS$ORS - SIGNS OF SUMMER. HAT festive reporter, The vocal mosquito, Is whetting his bill and beginning to hum ; Marauding and roaming, He floats through the gloaming, And gaily announces that summer has come. On fences star-litten, The masculine kitten Parades with the bristles erect on his back, And soliloquizing With tumult surprising, He scorns the assaults of the nimble bootjack. The people of leisure, Intent upon pleasure, To matters of business now bid an adieu ; At each Sabbath meeting, With paternal greeting, The preacher harangues the unoccupied pew. With feet in the mire, The fisherman liar, Now baits his small hook for the catfish and perch; From seraph and sinner, The strawberry dinner Now captures the shekels to help out the church. —St. Louis Spectator, GRADY & McKEEVER, LATE RENNER & COMPANY, DEALERS IN FINE ARTS. Designers and Manufacturers or EVERY DESCRIPTION OF PICTURE FRAMES, No. 719 SIXTH AVE., New York. FACTORY, 218 W. 4d STREET. Cavanagh, Sanford & Co., Merchant Tailors and Importers, 16 West 23d STREET, Opposite 5th Ave, Hotel, NEW YORK. at Mount Desert. 24 Pen and Ink Drawings by JohnA. Mitchell, Editor of vit E. “There are_no_dry-as-dust essays, no fine-spun disquisitions in * The Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert.’ - From the first page to the Yast itis a revel of fairy fun and mischievous grace. The wisdom taught is that of love, and the young men and maidens created ,by Mr. J. A. Mitchell’s hu- morous imagination wander through the book under the ingenious, the saucy, the benignant tuition of the quaintest band of Cupids who ever sxipped from an artist’s pencil. All the characteristics of Mount Desert—the charms of the summer sea as viewed by twos, the vigils on the piazza, the bouncing and abundant buck+board—are suffused with that deli- cate wit of the great, if untrained master. s young Bostonian who several years ago left architec ture for the painter's easel, and whose pictures have had success in Paris.” —. Tribune. _ ‘The artist has done a clever thing, and the wit is capital."—A tlantic Monthly. “Mr, Mitchell, with but scanty text, has fully developed all the manners and ways of the acolytes who follow Cupid. ‘he artist who makes these pictures has exceedingly good taste and a dainty pencil, for chubby cherubs are flitting all over his Pages, and when he wants to be comic, his pictures are always conceived in good taste.” —N. ¥, Times. pencil, in-which Thackeray was the Mr, Mitchell is, the “ Dio Lewis's Monthly is the grandest Magazine we have ever seen.” Normal Teacher & Examiner, Send 6 cents in stamps for a sample copy ’ Dio Lewis's Monthly $2.50 per year. 25 cents a copy. For SALE BY ALL DEALERS. Agents wanted. Send for terms. FRANK SEAMAN, Publisher, 542 BROADWAY, New York. ‘COMMON SENSE BINDER—— FOR BINDING “LIFE: Cheap, Strong and Durable, Will hold 26 numbers. Maited to any part of the United States for $x. 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