Life — April 2, 1885 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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OB INGERSOLL has found his level as a side-show toa Burlesque Troupe. He is now lecturing on blasphemy, about which he proba- bly knows more than any man living. * . . HE 7imes says that a certain “ Dynamite Scare Has Exploded.” This is terrible. If the fiends have so perfected the science of dynamite that scares as well as bombs explode, there is no safety anywhere. . . . NT is a most appropriate season for the trial of Fish. It looks now as if the Ancient Mariner would have a pretty hard roe to hoe. . . . T the Sign of the Lyre,” is the title of a newly pub- lished volume. It is not a campaign document, nor indeed has it any con- nection with certain of L1FE’s contemporaries, whose political antipathies have led them during the past year into appalling deviations from the truth. . . . HERE are said to be nineteen metals more valuable than gold. Certain species of brass may be set down as among them. . . . IRDS are without lips or teeth, Man is the only creature on the earth who can have his lips and teeth with his bills too. * . . UTING bas a department called “ The Editor's Open Window.” We have not yet had time to peruse it, but it is probably used as a deputy assistant waste-basket and receptacle for spring poets. . . . HE Woman's Age is the latest comer among our con- temporaries. If it is like most women’s ages, it will be too uncertain to inspire the confidence of the masses. . . . O, William, a Sinking Fund Commissioner does not sink funds. Hetries to raise them. * . . NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS. A LL allusions to Turkey Cox are at sender's risk. * . * UERY: Were the projected Spring Elections to be used for bouncing purposes ? TULIPS. ER tulips red are proud and prate Of glory, by the garden gate; They toss their heads as if to say, No other flowers are fair as they— Methinks they much tergiversate. One morning as I chanced to wait Within this garden, lucky Fate Gave me for token of the day Her tulips red. Alas, for them, it was too late! They had to yield their honeyed freight Unto my robber lips, and stay Until I kissed their pride away ; And so I sing to celebrate Her two lips red. TO NOVEL READERS. HE following is a list of the ten best novels, as given by a number of literary men. The figures show the votes each work received. This list has already been pub- lished, but seems so little known that we venture to reprint it. Those following the first ten indicate the number of votes given other novels. vores. Scarlet Letter, S Romola, . 3 . Adam Bede, . . Les Miserables, Ivanhoe, David Copperfield, Henry Esaond, On the Heights, Wilhelm Meister," Uncle Tom's Cabin, . Jane Eyre, The Newcom Vanity Fair, . Heart of Midlothian, . Tale of Two Cities, . Robert Falconer, . Hypatia,. Consuelo, The Marble Faun, Middlemarch, |. Mill on the Floss, . Daniel Deronda, Don Quixote, Guy Mannering, . Villette, Bleak House, Vicar of Wakefel Lorna Doone, Pickwick Papers, Silas Mariner, Titan, * The Virginians, Corinne, Felix Holt, . Robinson Crusoe,” . SeRSRRREUUUY Dr. F. L. Hedge gives Sir Charles Grandison, Vicar of Wakefield, Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Ivanhoe, Heart of Midlothian, Rob Roy, Belinda, Old Mortality, Godolphin. Far be it from us to put ourselves in opposition to the verdict of the literary lights of the country, but we feel that public opinion, and it is public opinion that decides these questions, would be inclined to differ from the above deci- sions. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale is much nearer the mark. He gives them as follows: Robinson Crusoe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Jane Eyre, A Tale of Two Cities, Arabian Nights, The Newcomes, Ivanhoe, Pride and Prejudice, Ro- mola and Dumas’ Three Guardsmen—the last simply to show the value of pure narrative. THE office-seekers who come back from Washington swearing, appear to be precursers of reform. comicbooks.com