Life, 1890-06-26 · page 7 of 15
Life — June 26, 1890 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page contains two distinct items: **"The Tennis Suit in Evidence"** (cartoon): A domestic scene showing a woman displaying a tennis suit to a man, with caption joking about the suit's longevity. The humor appears to rest on the woman's claim that her son wore it for "ruggery" (rugby) ten years ago, yet it still looks serviceable. This is gentle satire about either the durability of clothing or, less charitably, women's tendency to hold onto old garments. **"In the Lane"** (poem): A romantic verse about a man encountering a mysterious woman in a June lane, capturing a fleeting moment of attraction and yearning. It's sentimental Victorian-era poetry with no apparent satirical intent. The page primarily showcases literary and artistic content rather than political commentary, typical of *Life* magazine's mixed editorial approach during this period.
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- LIFE: OTES—* Midnight Talks at the Club” Hulbert) by Amos K. Fiske, is a discussion of very serious subjects in an informal way—the drift of the whole book being toward a larger liberty in the Church which may only gain “ the best intellect and the highest zeal" by inviting men into church fellowship freely and honestly “ without mental shackles,” Scribner & Welford publish the authorized English edition of Ibsen's plays, edited by William Archer, in two cloth volumes which contain several plays not before printed in this “The League of Youth,” “An Enemy of the and “ The Wild Duck.” (Fords & 369 From the same firm comes a bright and picturesque volume of “Egyptian Sketches,” written at Cairo in 1889 by Jeremiah Lynch, an American, who pictures that city and people with their surroundings, and then takes the reader up the Nile to Thebes. Droch, NEW BOOKS. MY STRANGE PATIENT, By Mary Caldwell Montgomery. 4” York: The Minerva Publishing Company. Married by Proxy. By Frank Dupree. New York: The Minerva Publishing Company. The Burnt Million, Brothers. New By James Payn, New York: Harper and Bankers’ and Brokers’ Reference Book, By Alfred Smith, New York : ‘American News Company. Two Lunaticr. By One of Them, New York: Oxford Publishing Company. The Devil's Daughter. By Honoré de Balzac, New York: American News Company! Poor Richard's Almanac, Cole lected and edited by Paul Leicester Ford. New York and London: G. P, Putnam's Sons, IN THE LANE. HATis so fairasalane in June, Alleafy, mystic, lovely lane, When the joyous birds are all atune And dreamy shadows wax and wane? But all of beauty was not there Until she wandered down alone— A gleam of sun aslant her hair— My best girl, but not yet my own, In the leafy shade that after- noon I breathed my humble heartfelt prayer. What is so dark as a lane in June When “No” is softly an- swered there? THE TENNIS SUIT IN EVIDENCE. ‘ TWONDER DID YEZ KNOW ME SON MIKE PHIN YEZ WOR UP TH’ RIVER ? FOR BUGGLERY." HE WOR IN TIN YEARS ‘DARKNESS WHICH MAY BE reur.” comicbooks.com