Life, 1888-12-20 · page 7 of 14
Life — December 20, 1888 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 347 This page contains two distinct sections: **Top cartoons** titled "Professional Discouragements" and "What a Young Wife's Affection Accomplished" appear to be humorous domestic and social vignettes rather than political satire. The first shows a Native American interaction; the second depicts fishing scenes with a couple. **Main text** discusses newly published books, including volumes on coaching and various literary works. A notable mention: "Slavery still exists in Morocco. In fact, there are a good many people bound in morocco"—a pun on "morocco" leather binding, making light of actual human slavery through wordplay. **Bottom illustration** shows what appears to be a graveyard scene with the caption "Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound." The page is primarily literary commentary rather than political commentary.
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PROFESSIONAL DISCOURAGEMENTS. Leading Man (to Native): WHERE DO THE ACTORS STOP WHEN THEY COME DOWN HERE? Native; Most OF ‘EM STAYS IN THE CEMETERY, TWO TURNIN'’S TO THE RIGHT AS YOU GO DOWN THE ROAD. and glacier scenes are strikingly beautiful. The art-work of the volume was under the skilful supervision of J. B. Millet. (ANOTHER handsomely illustrated volume is the richly printed quarto entitled “Coaching Ways and Coach- ing Days" (Macmillan). It is made up of the excellent articles by W. O. Tristram, which appeared during the year in The English Illustrated Magazine. The pen-and-ink drawings by Herbert Railton anu Hugh Thomson are among the very best of their kind. : . . Aer valuable translations haye been issued by Cup- ples & Hurd: Grimm's “ Life of Raphael,” by Sarah H. Adams; a sympathetic interpretation of the “ Wit, Wis- dom and Pathos of Heine,” by J. Snodgrass; and Carmen Silva's little story of “ A Heart Regained,” by Mrs. Mary A. Mitchell. The DeWitt Publishing House have issued two handy little volumes of “ Recitations " and “ Dialogues" for Christ- mas, edited by Margaret Holmes. Among the living au- thors represented are Howells, Aldrich, Curtis, Stoddard, ‘Warner and Page. Droch. NEW BOOKS ACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS. By W., Outram Tristram. With illustrations by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson. London and New York: Macmillan & Co. The Curse of Marriage, By Walter Hubbell. New York: The Ameri- can News Co, The Confessions of Claud. By Edgar Fawcett, Boston: Ticknor & Co. Huper, By W.R. Thayer. Cambridge: Charles W. Lever. The Human Mystery im Hamlet, By Martin W. Cooke. New York: Fords, Howard & Hurlburt. The Quick or the Dead? By Amélie Rives, Philadelphia: J. B. Lip- pincott Co. 347 WHAT A YOUNG WIFE'S AFFECTION ACCOMPLISHED. “ Missus SENDS YOU YOUR LUNCH.” HE man who wants the earth bad enough to put up with a soiled specimen like ours ought to be accom- modated while his desires are modest. Next thing we know he'll be asking for ‘@ new one. LAVERY still exists in Morocco. In fact, there are a good many people bound in morocco. ‘HARK! FROM THE TOMBS A DOLEFUL SOUND,” comicbooks.com