Life — March 3, 1887 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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» LIFE - MR. HOWELLS AND OTHER BOOK-MAKERS. R. HOWELLS is quite too awfully realistic in his last chapters of “ April Hopes.” New York girls undoubtedly do pronounce bird, deyd, and church is ; without question chuych with them; but they do not say moybid for morbid or pey- son for person. When Mr. Howells tries to write the New York girl dialect his real- ism becomes funerealistically ridiculous. The New York girl has her faults, Mr. | Howells, principally tailor-made, and it would seem as if you might find enough in her to satirize without dipping down into that rich imagination which so many of your readers say you haven't got. If you wish to study the New York girl don’t look at her through a telescope, but come hither and take a good square look at her, and then satirize her in that good, square fashion that is the only legitimate method for a man of your standing. We know your business requires you to do a certain amount of creating, but it seems rather hard that the sins of a Boston novelist’s imagination should be visited upon the children of Gotham, who have already accumulated a wee bit more than their share of this world’s idiosyncrasies. * . ° “cc HALF Century in Salem,” by Mrs. M. C. D, Silsbee (Houghton, Miffin & Co.), is an interesting transcript of the personal recollections of one of the most brilliant women of that historic town. It is told in an easy, entertaining manner, and gives a graphic picture of those good old days when American life had | a character of its own. + NEW BooKs - Borderland. & Coustry Town Chronicle. Leisure Hour Series. Henry Holt & Co. Through the Gates of Gold. A Fragment of Thought. The Comedy of Human Life. By Honoré de Balzac. Doctor. Boston: Roberts Brothers. The Merry Men and other Tales and Fables, by Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Charles ‘Scribner's Sons. By Jessie Fothergill. Toston : Roberts Brotbers. Scenes from Country Life. The Country x Soe Widower ; GUESS YOU'LL HEV TER CHISEL THAT LAST PART OFF 'N' PUT IN A SKULL 'N’ CRCSS-BONES, ER A CHERUB ER SOMETHIN’. DON'T WAN’ TER MAKE NO HARD FEELIN'S ‘TWEEN MARIA 'N' TH’ DEPARTED, New York: | I'M GOIN’ TER GIT MARRIED NEX' WEEK 'N’ A PAIR OF TIGHT SLIPPERS. TRIUMPH OF GENIUS. Sullivan to Gilbert. HE name, to me, dear Gilbert, has Become a bloody bore. In want of any other thing I favor ** Ruddygore.” Gilbert lo Sullivan, My dear Sir Atthur, your new name Recalls to mind a piggery. But ah! T have it. Happy thought ! Let's call it the '* Ruddigore.”” RAILWAY from Chicago direct to the City of Mexico is pro- jected. With a few more additional facilities ‘for leaving the city, life in Chicago will become bearable. SWEETS TO THE SWEET. HE: Your little wife made that cake with her own dear little” hands! HE: Well, now, if my little wife will | eat,that cake with her own dear little mouth I will be satistied. A CASE OF NECESSITY. INISTER (¢0 boy who is dig- ging for worms): Little boy | don't you know that it is wrong to work on Sunday, except in cases of necessity ? Boy (going on with his digging): This is a case of necessity. A feller can't go fishin’ ‘thout bait. TAKES TWO TO MAKE A STARE. IFE: That man has been star- ing at me for five minutes ! HusBAND: Well, you wouldn't have known it if you hadn't kept your eyes on him. comicbooks.com