Life, 1893-11-23 · page 4 of 26
Life — November 23, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The top left advertises Whiting Manufacturing Company's solid silver goods with a decorative yacht club trophy image. The right side promotes Raymond & Whitcomb's vacation excursions to California and Mexico, emphasizing luxury travel with sleeping cars and dining facilities. The lower half announces **Scribner's Christmas Number**, listing contributing authors (Robert Grant, Thomas Nelson Page, Herbert D. Ward, Henry Van Dyke, Edith Wharton) and illustrators. It mentions unpublished Walter Scott work and articles on Constantinople and animal painting. There is **no political cartoon or satirical content** visible on this page—it functions as a commercial and literary announcement section of Life magazine, priced at 25 cents.
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LIFE Solid Silver Exclusively. STERLING \Warninc iit (0. Silversmiths, BrRoapway & 18TH ST,, New YORK. Stawanaxa-Coaintnian Yacnt Cis Cup, Wow ey “ Cinotnecea.!” SCRIBNER'S CHRISTMAS NUM ROBERT GRANT, - - - THOMAS NELSON PAGE, HERBERT D. WARD, - : : HENRY VAN DYKE, : EDITH WHARTON, - : RAYMOND’S VACATION EXCURSIONS, ALL TRAVELING EXPENSES INCLUDED. A WINTER IN CALIFORNIA. vew York vi vilcagess and te ae Je Parties will ewe By ormia poir The trip will be made Special Train of Magnificent Pullman Palace Vesti- buted Sleeping and Dining Car: The tickets cover every expense of travel both ways, and give the holders entire freedom on the Pacific Coast. They provide for visits all of the leading California resorts. The return tickets may be used on Any Re; October, 1894, of with any one of Ten Return Parti ander Special Escort, with a Choice of Three ferent Routes, Hotel coupons supplied for long or short sojuurns at the principal Pacific Coast resorts. lar Train until paditonal California Excursions: 30, February 20 and 22, and March 8 and rq. Excursions to Mexico: January 30, February 20 and ff March 14, January 10, 11 and (3 Send for descriptive book, mentioning whether California Mexico tour is desired. RAYMOND & WHITCOMB, 31 East Fourteenth Street (corner of Union Square), New Yort. ; be Go CHRISTMAS STORIES BY A Bachelor's Christinas. How the Captain Made Christa The Semaphore, The Source: An Allegory. The Fulness of Life. Illustrated by A. B. Frost, Irving R. Wiles, J. R. Weguelin. <——— — F. MARION CRAWFORD writes of Constantinople, with illustration Edwin Lord Weeks. AN ARTIST AMONG ANIMALS. Acharming article by F.S.CHURG PROM “THE NACHELOR’S CHRISTMAS,” UNPUBLISHED WORK OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, recently discovered and now first printed. Introduction by Andrew Lang. DELLA ROBBIA. ALLAN MARQUAND. Illustrations printed in tints. DESIGNS BY HOWARD PYLE. January and May. Gilchrist. Price 25 Cents. A search for new works by the great artist and his pupils in Italy. By A song without words, LH-Prospectus for 1894 will be found in the Christmas Number, the famous animal painter, with illustrations by the artist. POEMS BY THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH GRAHAM R. TOMSON, ; RICHARD HENRY STODDAY EDITH THOMAS. THE POINT OF VIEW is unusually clever and enterta $3.00 a Year. Music by A Serial by GEO. W. CABLE will begin in the January number. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New Yor comicbooks.com