Life — October 26, 1893 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: Hubbard): Oh, 1 say, what are you so serious about over there 3 We've been pulling Howells to pieces, and Hubbard says he'll try to work us in his interview, after all, as a sort of chorus. Miss Lapham says that most of the girls she knows are down on Howells’s novels because the love- making is so matter-of-fact. HUBBARD: Isn't it always matter-of-fact to everybody except the victims ? Miss LAPHAM: Well, when we read a novel don’t we want the victim’s point-of-view ? CorE You must not take your novels so seriously, my dear. The woman who takes her fiction seriously is apt to take life frivolously, ‘Take them half-and-half. HUBBARD (cuéting in): Howells's views of love and socialism don’t interest mea bit; but I want to give him a straight tip on his idea of journalism. He doesn’t seem to realize that it isa great profession which owes a big duty to the public; and that, just as lawyers, doctors, and preachers have to do things which are very unpleasant to some of the parties concerned, so the reporter must, in the line of duty, do the disagreeable occasionally. /'ve had to myself. COREY (with intention): 1 don't doubt it. HUBBARD: My theory is that the newspaper is just as important in keeping the world straight as the old belief in future punishment was. Most people have lost all fear of Hades, but they are sure, at any rate, that the press will find them out. I tell you, sir (looking at Corey), that a healthy conscience isn't a circumstance to a good, live newspaper in restraining evil in a community, CoreEY: It does fight the devil with fire. HuBBARD: Why, sir, it keeps the American newspaper-man busy running down the wicked- ness that has been inspired by the American novel, I never wrote up a big crime that I did not find the suggestion of it in a novel hidden somewhere among the criminal’s baggage. Fact! FULKERSON: I haven't any doubt that if Hubbard were given his dues as a great moral force he would be either the president of a City Reform Club or a bishop. HusparD: A bishop is a good enough job for me. WAITER (passing through the car): Dinner is ready in the dining-car, First callto dinner! (AW rise to.go to dinner.) MISS KILBURN (fo Penelope, who is standing by her): Those men don’t like Mr. Howells because he sees through the pretences with which they bolster up their vanity. I sus- pect that even Mr. Corey is irritated at Howells’s moral earnestness. In Mr. Corey's world manners, not morals, are the real thing. Droch, NEW BOOKS. H{'CET UBIOVE. By Sir William Fraser, Baronet, M. A. Out of the Sunset Sea. By Albion W. Tourgée. New York: Merrill and Baker. Chinese Nights’ Entertainments, ndon: G. P. Putnam's Sons. By Adele M. Fielde. New York and TOO MUCH. “REGINALD BROPHY, YEZ HAS AXED ME TO BECOME YER wotrt I'M A WAKE WOMAN—nUT I MUST SHTRUGGLE WID MY FEELIN I's a wipow. LOOK ON THOSE FOIVE GRAVE-SHTONES: IN THE LOT YONDER, AND BELAIVE ME WHIN I TELL YEZ THAT ANOTHER HUSBAND'S GRAVE-SHTONE ADDED TO THIM WUD BE THE DEATH IV mes” ‘A DEAD BEAT TO WINDWARD.” comicbooks.com