Life — December 10, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“Mhile there's Life there's Hope. VOL, XVIII. DECEMBER toth, 1891, No. 467. 28 West Twenty-tTHigp Street, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00a yearin advance, ostage free. Single copies rocents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. 1, bound, $30.00; Vol. II., bound, $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, 20 gents per copy. Vols. 111. to XVIL., inclusive, bound or in flat numbers, at $5.00 per volume. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by astamped and directed envelope. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new, \ THA this that Boston j has been doing about Walter Crane? There is a nebu- that that artist, being a temporary resident of the 1, Hill of Beans, was invited to meet the m lub lous tale afloat embers of some (the club not mentioned) at dinner, and accepted, But, before the day came, being an English Radical, 3) he found occa dress a met ists or Anarchists, or some such grade of enthusiast, which so the Boston literary club-men that they \ Withdrew their invitation. \ It seems to LIFE that that was a mistake. If a man is really an Anarchist, there can hardly be a remedy that is likely to go further toward making him tolerant of existing circumstances than a square meal of victuals in pleasant company. Not to have got such a meal into Mr. Crane when the chance offered, seems a distressful omission, and the more eccentric his political notions are the worse the omis ion to ad- ¢ of Social- distressed ion seems. Boston thinks a little too much of her example and not quite enough of her manners? And may it not be, further, that if she paid more attention to manners, her example, gaining in loveliness, would be more worthy of such solicitude as it might get ! Isn't it possible tha R. HOWELLS isn’t quite actual in his latest dissertation in H-rp- “ Stud: He makes ovt that the only kind of = property that doesn t belong stat. absolutely to its owner, is literary proper- er's ty. But, as a matter of fact, the owners of patents and the writers of books are on very nearly the same footing. More- over, what a man writes is his absolutely, as long as he keeps it to himself. If some one steals his manuscript, the law will punish the thief as readily as though he stole silver spoons or diamonds. Copyright, however inadequate it may be, is in the nature of a special protection developed in the progress of civilization for the benefit of men who write. It isn’t a new-fangled method of plunder, though you might suppose it was, from reading Mr. Howells’s allegory. ws there ever a better example than the late Lord Lytton, of how much better it pays in this world to be a man of talent than a man of genius! * V JORD comes that the Bos- tonian with the greatest record ever made as an Nusher at wed- dings, has himself been led to the altar. Thus again we are reminded of what happens to the pitcher that goeth often to well. To be an_ indis- bachelor gives no is there safety for the un- married iman except in marriage, and there are some risks even about that. M R, LOWELLS essay on Richard 4 III has been published, and has. gone into the hands of the microscopists to be examined for trichina. The inten- tion is to ascertain, if possible, what “there was about it that was so offensive to Chicago. Perhaps it was a failure to mention the Fat Stock Show. . * IF future young gentlemen who come to this town to spend Thanksgiving will kindly put the city » back when they get through with it, ‘they will confer a favor upon the police, and greatly oblige permanent residents who have to use the place the next d. There have been a good many things said against New York as a place of residence, but so far its enemies have neglected to use the fact that all the college lads in the United States gather here at Thanksgiving. comicbooks.com