Life — December 10, 1891 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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JOY AMONG THE ANGLO- MANIACS, HOLLIE: Aw, this dis- covery that those scientific fellahs can make .t wain when- evah they please is good news faw us. I'll wite to me uncle in Congwess, to see if we can't get an appwopwiation to make it ; Wain evewy day heah, Dorrie: But, old man, you surpwise me. Why do you want it to wain evewy day? Wain is a howwid baw, you know. CHOLLIE: Aw—wather, per- haps. But then wain is so Eng- lish, you know. NXIOUS CONTRIBU- TOR: Not all the matter in Lire is humorous. The para- graph about enclosing postage for the return of rejected Mss. is quite serious. The Egyptian’s first meeting with the Little she outwitted him, Indeed the book must be judged rather as a series of character sketches (like “The Window in Thrums” and the ‘Auld Licht Idyls") than as a full-fledged novel, It is a charming piece of work, interesting (rom first to last, but there is little unity or cumulative effect about it. When all else is so fresh and original one res:nts the ancient literary machinery of an Enoch-Arden-like husband, which is made to play an important part at the end. Then there is the gentle spirit of Margaret which pervades the book—"‘ one whose nature was not complex, but most simple, as if Gos had told her only to be good.” Droch, NEW BOOKS. OF MARTHA. By Frank R. Stockton, New York: Houghton, MiMin and Company. London and New York: Macmillan and Compan The Women of the French Salons, By Amelia Gere Mason, New York: The Century Company. Two Worlds, and Other Poems. ME HOUSE ton an Tim, Bos- By Richard Watson Gilder New Vork: The Century Company. Lady Jane. By Mrs. C.V. Jamison, New Vork: The Century Company. The Squirrel Inn. By Frank R. Stockton. New York: The Century Company. Marjorie and Her Papa. By Robert Howe Fletcher. New York:” The Century Company. massut by Rail. By Marion Mills Miller, Lit. D. New « and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. ince By Kirk Munroe. New York and London: GP, Putnam's Sors, tou and Thermidor, By T. Low. rarvellons Coincidence, G. W. Dillingham. lution inche Roosevelt. New By Kinahan Cornwallis. New By Henry Martel, M.D, New York The Social G.W, Dillingham Lest Lenore. By Captain Mayne Reid. Dillingham New York: G.W. -LIFE-: Sympathetic Neighbor: WMAt's 26 MAT’, BARTOLOZZ1 ? Bart.: MAT? LOOK AT ZE DAMDA MONK’, AN' DONTA SPEEK TO ME! GOT TO ZE CHIANTL BOT’ AN’ I HAF TO LOSE TWO, TREE DAYS, NE WILL BE NUFF SOLER FOR ME TO GO OUT Wiz ze ORG EYWINK TAL by Mr. John” Kendrick a very clever child's book, so clever, indeed, that adults will enjoy it quite as much as children, and perhaps even more. If it had been written before Mr. Lewis Carroll brought out “Alice in Wonderland,” large, hot-house laurels would have rested on Mr. Bang As it is Mr. Bangs's to be content with praise for the innumerable bright, laughable ideas which it seems almost impossible could be the product of one brain. Mr. Charles Howard Johnson has caught the author's spirit thoroughly d his illustrations add greatly to the attractiveness of attractive little book. . * . brow for the main plan of the work, story suggests Mr. Carroll, and Mr. Bangs will have URING its recent representation at Daly's Theatre, “ The Taming of the Shrew,” although in practically the same before, seemed to have gained a new vitality. Both Miss Rehan and Mr. Drew, on whom fell the burden of the work, hands seemed trying to outdo themselves and cach other, with the result that the play, alw more than usual swing and dash. well acted by Mr. Daly’s company, went with MEASURE FOR MEASURE. ST TS not the ri but at Christmas I like to give just as valuable presents as I receive.” “So do I. My wife is going to give me a hundred dollar dressing gown, and I am going to give her a hundred dollar check to pay for it.” ght sort of feeling, per! comicbooks.com