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# Life Magazine Page 200 Analysis This page contains political campaign satire from an unspecified era. The left column lists mock "devices for campaign transparencies" (campaign slogans), including references to political figures like "Blaine and Bluster, Logan and Lungs" and "Maine and Mulligan." These appear to be satirical candidate names or party representatives. Below is campaign poetry mocking political rhetoric—references to "Salt River" (a euphemism for electoral defeat) and colorful insults like "Cock-eye-doodle-doo" suggest mockery of opposing politicians and their supporters. The right side contains an unrelated tribute to poet Bayard Taylor. Overall, this page uses wordplay and absurdist humor to ridicule contemporary political campaigning and speeches, though specific candidates and events remain unclear without additional historical context.
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200 BOOMLETS, A FEW DEVICES FOR CAMPAIGN TRANSPARE ROM the Cabin to the Cabinet.” . . . “ BLAINE and Bluster, Logan and Lungs.” . . . “MAINE and Mulligan, Illinois and Illiteracy.” . * . “FROM the Stump to the State House.” e 26 . “IN (Little) Rock Signo Vinces.” . . . “ INVESTIGATION is the Thief of Votes.” . . . SOME NEW BOOKS. “cs HY Lam a Kicker,” by Dudan Farisee, P.D.Q., N.Y., Liripop & Co. “ Twenty Years No Deadhead: A Ratlroad Trackt,” by Plum D. Knight, M. C., Sec’y St. U. S., and Home Minister to Peru. Bound in Gilt. Fine large letters with portraits of eminent Railroadologists. Cut this out. Boston, Solid For- blaine & Co. Prospectus of \884 Scientific Expedition up the Salt River, by John A. Blogun and J. G. Lame. N. Y. Nat. Repub. Camp. Comm., Doc. 44. Send stamp, not necessarily for publication but as guaranty of faith (in the ticket). Casting an Anchor to the Windward, or Letters to a Fisherman, a reprint with (out) permission of the author. * . . CAPTAIN WILLIAMS has swung for Blaine and Logan. His will probably be one of the most effective of cam- paign clubs, * . . CAMPAIGN I. HE Bumble Bee tweaketh in the sycamore tree And the Boo-Joo shrieks in the grass ! The Bum-Bum drinketh the brine from the sea, And the waybacker bloweth out the gas! And the Jig-Jog weepeth for his Joo-Joo bride And the candidate ditto doth he When he thinks in November Salt River he ‘Il ride For his name he spelleth with a B. With a B. With a big, big J. G. B. . * . _™ cry of the Butler men is Cock-eye-doodle-doo. POETRY . . . WwW are beginning to believe that Mr. Blaine is a much injured man, after all, in this Mulligan business. Judging from the number of letters already published, not to mention “ those in press,” the illustrious magnet must have been kept too busy writing them to indulge in any further wickedness, A TRIBUTE TO BAYARD TAYLOR. HE time will probably come when Americans will real- ize that they had a poet once who wrote a lyrical drama worthy to be compared with Shelley's “ Prometheus Unbound.” We honored Bayard Taylor while living. Fame | came to him in early life, and when he died he was his coun- | try’s ambassador at the court of a great Emperor. But his last and greatest work, “ Prince Deukalion,” we have almost allowed to be forgotten. Critics and thoughtful readers will some day open their eyes to the wonderful beauty of its ver- | sification, the melody of it, and the fine imagination which, to use Longfellow’s image, are like “stately argosies of song, whose rushing keels make music as they sail along.” * * * T° any admirer of this poet the “ Life and Letters of Bay- ard Taylor,” which his widow and Horace E. Scudder have edited, will be a very interesting book; and more than that, the admiration for the poet will give place to admiration for the man. The whole story of his romantic love for Mary Agnew. as revealed in their letters, is idyllic. Some one has said that “ Love is an egotism of two,” and it is not to be de- | nied that there is egotism in these love letters ; but there is a strong, full heart of young manhood, hoping and daring all things, while he says: “I will become the sculptor of my own mind's statue.” R®? this bold declaration of the young man of twenty- three in the light of his completed career, as he lies dead in solemn state at Berlin with “ Prince Deukalion” in his coffin. The prophecy of the young man has become bi- ography; the thirty years of active life which intervened were } strung on the golden thread of this firm purpose. . * * (Gaeous: ambitious, noble-hearted—this is the ver- dict which a candid reader of his letters will pass upon Bayard Taylor. valuable which has been published since Trollope’s. (Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co.) The biography is the most entertaining and DROCH. BOOKS RECEIVED. ONFESSIONS of Hermes, by Paul Hermes. McKay, 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. J. R. Os- David The Story of a Country Town, by E. W. Howe. good & Co., Boston, Mass. Dr. Sevier, by G. W. Cable. J. R. Osgood & Co., Boston, Mass, Edmond Dantes, T. B. Peterson & Bros., Philadelphia, Pa. comicbooks.com