Life — July 24, 1890 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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> LIFE: OUR FRESH AIR FUND Retore avsee VERY cottage in Lirr’s Village is now full, To such an army of boys and girls anything in the way of books and playthings is most acceptable. Last year some of our readers sent them presents that yielded a vast amount of pleasure, and those who are blessed with a Similar impulse may rest assured their gifts could never fall into more appreciative hai These children are strangers to the luxuries of nd to many of the joys of childhood. Whatever you send them will be an unaccustomed delight MVLN Proceeds of lemonade.cake and candy sale by L. Rowers and Ai B. Willard | Proceeds of an Afternooa acknowledged..$2.895 84 $20 00 33.00 F. Williams. Smitten 's Fresh Air Fund. ! held by Special some little children at wthampton, Mass. Raby Ruth) Little Peggie.s....+. CN. Je. -ibrary | Grace Hollingsworth. Anne Scarborough Hole lingsworth Mary and Lyman Proceeds of entertainment at Grand Beach, Me by Bessie. Whipple. Elenor Louise Wrig! Esther Wright jorie Allen, Maud Clarke, Willis Clement, award Fletcher, fochemont Ha Eugene Clark, William Adriance and Gilman hols fresh Air Fund, Piain- field, N. J . GMT Lexington, Mass Little Byrd Page, Colorado G.H.J ee 23 oo 25 60 $00 500 | 5 co 50 00 5 00 Ellen Moore... 0... 10.00 Larchmont Circulating Library From Dorothy Van Buren Duer 20 0 $ 00 300 | 1 00 to co From Spuyten Proceeds of a Fa Li For held by five little Constance, Maud, y. Margaret and Woehe eeseee Hal and Witt For Fresh Air Fund. ““ARMOREL OF LYONESSE.” SSANT has made two reputations—one as a writer of amusing and spirited novels in col- laboration with James Rice, the other, and later, as a writer of stories with a purpose of practical philanthropy, one of which has resulted in the famous “ People’s Palace” of Lon- don. The spirit of the preacher and reformer is often strong within him, and he has recently been leading a crusade of authors against publishers. When he wrote “Armorel of Lyonesse" (Harper's), how- ever, he came down from the pulpit and spun an old-fas ioned Romance; and no device of calling it a “ Romance of To-day" can make it modern. Here are all the stock Properties of romances for at least two generations. There is the ingenuous country girl, beautiful, full of aspirations, waiting for a fairy Prince. He always appears late in the first chapter, or early in the second. In English stories he is either a lord or an artist ; in American, an artist or a civil engineer, The Civil Engineer Motive is the favorite in America, because in our industrial conditions the engineer is more apt to developinto a millionaire than isan artist. In =ngland the artist has certain social opportunities which give him the preference—and Mr. Besant, therefore, wisely makes his fairy Prince an artist. Of course, the Prince always goes away as suddenly as he came, leaving behind him a broken-hearted girl, who swears she can never love again. At this point the writer of a Romance can follow either one of two formula—he can hint at a dark crime, a great mental struggle, at despair and sui- cide; or, if he is less bent on tragedy, he can make love the awakening touch to fill the country girl with a determination to achieve culture, fashion, and knowledge of the world, with the intention of some day flashing upon her recreant lover as a full-fledged goddess in a Worth dress. Mr. Besant, with his strong predisposition for a ‘ moral purpose,” chooses the second formula. An indispensable part of this second formula is that several Polished Worldly Villains must be introduced as foils to the simple virtue of the Ingenuous Country Girl. These are generally instruments of culture to open the eyes of the ingénue to the perils which beset her wayto the fairy Prince. However, virtue fed on country air always triumphs over vice nurtured ina city, and the curtain descends on a repentant Prince, and a happy pair of reunited lovers. Mr. Besant, as the result of long experience with the reading public, fol- lows this part of the formula to the letter. BY very few spinners of romance on these old lines could write so charmingly as this author. Part First of this story is a beautiful genre picture of life on one of the illy Islands, off Land: nd, England. The sea and the 4 How younG Cnestey ostar MIS HANDKERCHIEF TO F1po's T+ comicbooks.com