Life — July 30, 1885 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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INCONSTANCY. Encore une étoile qui file, Qui file, file, et disparait.—Beranger. I N War, ‘tis for the chief who wins To prize as pearls his honored years, For fortune 's fickle, and he hears Already rival culverins. | And fame's a star, which spins and spins, And shoots its course and disappears. In Love, let him who thinks he wins. March to his triumph thro’ his fears, For frequent change of cavaliers Doth seem to Lydia least of sins. Again a star—which spins and spins, And shoots its course and disappears ! Mark Mallow. 5 y< T last we know why “ uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” A new- ly arrived chiropodist from the old country announces himself as late corn doctor to the Court of Germany, and teils us he has | removed corns from several of the crowned heads of Europe. THE MIKADO. RIEND Rosenfeld is ill at ease, And thinks himself a martyr. Instead of something Japanese, It seems he’s caught a Tartar. TERDAY? COMPLIMENTARY. Rev. Mr. Dragley (who has had a stranger to occupy his pulpit the day before): WELL, MRS, DOBBINS, HOW DID YOU LIKE THE SERMON YES- Mrs, D.—: WELL, SIR, TO TELL THE TRUTH IT WAS TOO PLAIN AND SIMPLE TO §$ | UP THE JUDGMENT AND CONFOUNDS THE SENSE. OH, SIR, THERE'S NO ONE COMES UP TO YOU FOR THEM, IT ME, I LIKE BEST THEM SERMONS AS JUMBLES To fully enjoy the delightful freshness of the tale it must be read at intervals; the delicate flavor is lost if too long enjoyed, * . . HERE are unmistakable indications in this book that the author's powers of delineating cockney life and character are equal to his more grotesque humor. He has given the public three bright stories founded on absurdities. We are ready now for a humorous picture of real life, with no improbabilities, and we have not the slightest doubt that Mr. Anstey could make a great success of it. Let us have more of Mr. Tweddle and his friends, and less animated statuary. . . HE Commercial Advertiser anda syndicate of the best newspapers are printing a series of a hundred short stories, one appearing each day. This is an excellent enter- prise for the dull season of journalism, and a great advance on the meteor, alligator, and snake stories which have hereto- fore marked the “silly season.” It.is a great pity that the Times is not in the syndicate. . . . HE 7imes, by the way, with its usual pathetic earnest- ness, laments that “ Mrs. Mary J. Holmes has written twenty novels already, and lives in California, where people are said to live toa ripe old age.” The satire has a good intention, but as a matter of fact Mrs. Holmes lives in Brock- port, N. Y., where the people often die young of inanition. . . . T is now announced in the Century that “ Ivory Black,” the author of the recent short stories’ of artist and Bohemian tife in West Eleventh street, is T. A. Janvier. There is a good tone to these bright and original sketches, novel in design and polished in execution. They should be gathered in a volume. . . . OLITICAL students (and it is a blessed fact that we now have such a class), will rejoice that the fifth volume of the English translation of Dr. H. von Holst’s “ Constitutional History of the United States " is now ready for the American public. It is and will bean’ excellent complement to McMaster’s History, one reflecting the political and the other the social life of the country. Droch. BOOKS RECEIVED. (MADAME DE PRESNEL. By E. F. Poynter, New York: Henry Holt & Co. The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. | Described by the Sculptor Bartholdi. Published for the Benefit of the Pedestal Fund by the North American Review, N. Y. Illustrated. comicbooks.com