Life — August 13, 1891 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: OUR FRESH AIR FUND. ONTRIBUTORS to this fund may be inter- ested in the fact that one quart of milk per day is allowed for every child at Lire’s Farm ; that seven different dinners are offered them each week, so that during their two weeks’ stay they have the same bill of fare but twice. About one-hundred large-sized loaves of bread are also required each day to satisfy the cravings of these empty sojourners. Previously acknowledged..$3.944 38 Dr, Henry Tuck . $10.00 Special Kector St. Fund c BaGV.. as 6.00 from Mrs. Geo. R. Shel- For the Fresh Air Fund. 1.00 don: Mes. William Bar- CASH e a8 052350 s.00 bour, $15; Mrs. George F. For Anna's Sake... 0.272! 25.00 Bakers $0: Mrs, William Proceeds of tableaux at H. Beadleston, $20; Mrs. Lakeside, old Pardee Bowles Colgate,” $10 Homestead, Oswego, N. Mrs. J. H. Clark. $5; Y., by Rita Robinson, Mrs. James C. Fargo, Leslie Hunsicker, Jean $20; Mrs. H. UL. Horton, Hamilton, Ned ‘Lyon, George R: Ralph Hamilton. ... |. $20; Mrs. B. From a little Baby W. Horton, $5; Mrs, S Bank No + Fisher Johnson. $s; Mrs. Entertainment at_L. D. M: Morrison. $10; mont by Mesdames King. Mrs. isaac Platt, “$5: Cronkhite. Eiliot, Ketch: Mrs. Lyman Rhodes, $3: am, and Messrs. Nelson, Mr. Lyman Rhodes, Jr., Merritt, King, Ely,Petrie, $5; Mrs. N.S. P. Pren: Harvey. Hilliard, Aqua tice. $10; Mrs, William bella, “Sperry, Roberts, S. Pyle, $20; Mrs. Hea- Thomas,Camacho,Cronk- ty L. Thornell, $10; Miss hite, Dean, Burger and Ethel Thornell, $2; Mrs, Arosemena. The hall was Albert. Symington, $s; provided by Messrs, Mur- Mr. Geo. I. Seney, Jr. ray and Flint, and the $to;_ Mrs, Walter Shri chairs by the Hoboken ver, $20; Miss May Shel- Turtle Club.......... don, $to; Miss Gertrude Miss Helen Dean, aged 8 Sheldon. $10; Mrs. years, United States Ho- Whitney, $10 A tel, Saratoga, N.Y... Scotch Calvinist...... 1.1. s00 A Doll Rafiled atthe Larch- May Terry........ $00 mont Circulating Library, Live's Fresh Air F. A, Bullard, Treas. CB Ao ecolcetticeoter: cs Helen F Waterbury E.L. Rodewald, Elberon, From Ruth and Constancs eS peers e John Albro, Syracuse, L. H. Catskill. . nase From a Jovial Soul H. D. B., Tacoma, Wash. H.K O.. Young Bill, San’ Rafael, A.D. F. ¥. Hi. 5. : Nyatt Point. 4,9 Cio Our Fresh Air Fuad H.C. C20, Dean John B, Roberts Little Jokers at Monmouth Fund, * Daughtsy” E. F.T.. y Beach Two Happy Ones JW. Be snes Guill & Lalie. K.WOM. Dw ‘ x Lillie Nichols, Hattie Han- ay, bitte Hickey, Lut farz, Bella Cooper. Worcester Sympathizer Proceeds of an ment given b rand Beach, “What the thinking part of humanity is now largely engaged in doi is to readjust itself towards the work! and the world towards it,” says Mr. Boyesen in his introduction to Alexander Kielland’s “Tales of translated by William Archer for Harper's Odd Num- One fears that Mr. Boyesen has fallen into the prevailing making the * thinking part of humanity” synonymous with that part of it which writes pessimistic stories, puntries, ber series, 1. A SLIGHT CONTRAST. We have been so ready in the past decade to look on any man who is out of adjustment with his environment, and who talks a great deal about it, as a“ thoughtful man "—as though there were wisdom in un- happiness! And so (as we said at the start), we have been eager to read of the miseries of all other nations as depicted by their novelists, and have flattered ourselves that they and we were doing some power- ful thinking. . * * FROM Mr. Boyesen’s interesting essay one may judge that Kielland (who was his contemporary at the University of Norway) has, in his later and longer stories, dealt with the same problems in prose fiction that Ibsen has illuminated in dramatic form, ‘The novelist's method, however, is less brutal than the dramatist's; there is something of Thackeray in Kielland, and something of Carlyle in Ibsen. The inspiration of this little volume of short stories is, however, plainly French, In form and purpose they suggest those most modern writers in their various moods. There are several “* prose poems” which are even more artificial than their prototypes, and ‘+ Romance and Reality" is very like Maupassant’s The Necklace." The tale of all in the volume which is the most suggestive is ‘* Two Friends"—a compact and irresistible bit of writing which shows both power and restraint. . * * T the other extreme from this ‘*advanced” story-writing is what Englishmen like to call patronizingly their staple * fiction,” in which, as Mr. George Moore has pointed out, the accepted idealsare" the tea-table, the curate, the young lady who wants to be mar- ried, ” ‘This kind can be read without a blush—except for the grade of intelligence which finds pleasure in it. The type is well exemplified in Beatrice Whi ‘A Matter of Skill” (Appleton’s). All the stock characters are here—the delightful old maiden aunt whose ** tea-table” middle class comicbooks.com