Life — May 4, 1893 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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286 newsboy in one place, which is a thing to be regretted, as it is not the railroad newsboy's fault that he has to exact double price for newspapers. * . . “ ATHARINE NORTH,” by Maria Louise Pool, is the narrative of a revolt and a revolution, in which the part of King George Third is taken by A/rs. North, and the American Colonies are personated by Katharine and her father. It is a story of modern New England life, wherein all the odious people get thoroughly come-up-with, and the nice people eventually marry one another and otherwise enjoy themselves. Moreover, these things come about by interesting methods, and the people excite either sympathy, or amusement or just indignation, as people in stories should. Nearly every one in “ Katharine North” excites something, and between them all they excite the reader as much as is wholesome in summer. The moral of the story is that it isn’t worth while to marry anyone unless you really want to your- self. Aatharine married because her mother wished her to, and thought better of it afterwards through much tribulation. The hero (or the assistant hero, since the father is the real hero) gets so far on the wrong matrimonial path as to con- tract an engagement with an undesirable maid. The ease with which he extricates himself contrasted with the difficul- ties that beset Katharine, makes a strong argument in favor of taking one’s hymeneal complications in time. * LIFE: INCE Dr. Holmes sat down at the Breakfast Table only writers of exceptional boldness have ventured to invade that field. Mr. John Kendrick Bangs is such a writer, Ina small volume called “Coffee and Repartee” (Harpers) he reports breakfast-table talk with an assurance that amounts to positive audacity. His breakfast table, like the autocrat’s, is spread in a boarding house, but in New York, not Boston, which doubtless accounts for the superior impertinence of the conversation. To say that Mr. Bangs's book is as edify- ing as Mr. Holmes’s would be a hazardous assertion, but no risk of contradiction goes with the assurance that it is amus- ing, and excellently qualified to give any competent reader a dozen cheerful quarter-hours, Mr. C. H. Johnson's excellent illustrations are not the least of its merits. . . . FTER reading Mr. R. L. Stevenson's “ Island Nights Entertainments,” (Scribners) one is bound to regret that the prospect is not brighter forthe annexation of Hawaii. It seems a pity that a part of the world of which such stories can be written should not be represented in the American Union, “The Beach of Falesa,"* The Battle Imp,” and * The Isle of Voices" are the three tales that make up this volume. They all tell of a world and people that are at least as new to most story readers as India was when Mr. Kipling FIRST OF MAY AT O’ROURKEVILLE. Mr, OR.: Mrs. 0", HOWLD ON TH + ARRAH, THIN, BE AISY IN YOUR MOIND! WHAT HAS YEZ DONE WID DE BABY ? MADE AD PUT A BAG OF HERRINS UNDER HIS HEAD FOR A PILLOW, AN’ HE'S SHLE! ILEGANT BED FOR HIM IN THE WASH KETTLE, AN’ I've " LOIKE AN ANGEL. comicbooks.com