Life, 1893-12-14 · page 7 of 16
Life — December 14, 1893 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 379 This page contains a literary excerpt featuring dialogue between characters named Mulvaney and Gatsby, alongside an illustration of two people in what appears to be an intimate conversation scene. The caption reads: "Did you dread proposing to me, John?" / "Oh, no. I had been told beforehand that you wouldn't accept me." The illustration depicts a romantic or courtship scene typical of early 20th-century satirical magazine content. The page also includes a "New Books" section listing various publications. Without additional context about the publication date or the specific literary work being excerpted, I cannot definitively identify the characters or the satirical point being made. The content appears to be literary satire rather than political commentary.
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“EDUCATED IN THE HIGHER BRANCHES.” all kinds of us—and that is why. There is a verse of his scrawled in charcoal over the grill in the Degchi Club which tells it all : “Thave eaten your bread and salt, T have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine.” Why, would you believe it, there are three common soldiers down in B Company who would whip the regiment if Kipting asked them to! (Pointing.) There's one of them now. teaching the colonel’s boy how to ride a pony (Calting.) Mulvaney! Mulvaney! Bring the ‘The ladies want to see him. (Sul- vaney, the boy, and the pony come up the broad rvadway to the verandah, and at the regulation distance salute. The boy has the precision of a veteran). MULVANEY: It's only respict for you, cap- tain, that would lade me to inthurrupt the mornin’ drill uv the mounted battalion, Gapsny : We want to tell you of an old friend of yours—Mr. Kipling. He's become a great man at home, in England, writing for them all about India. MULVANEY: Ged bless him; he’s a broth uv aman, Many’s the peg he’s dhrunk wid me an’ Jock and Stanley. Sez he * Mulvaney, soom day I'll be for a writin’ doon thim tales thot ye've been blandanderin’ to me fur years past.” And faith, if he’s ben doin’ that in L don, there's Fitle left betune Terence Mulva- ney and dis-ris pect-ability by this time. D Shadd will mek uv me life a basted purgathory if she hears ut. (Looking at Miss Threegan) Whin ye write to London, Miss, will ye say to Mister Kipling that the ould rig'mint is dhrink- in’ health an’ succis to him—three fingers, stand- in'up! (Salutes. Then toboy on pony) "Shun! By foors, right wheel, march! (Ewxeunt sing- ing). “ An’ when the war began, we chased the bold Afghan, An’ we made the bloomin’ Ghazi for to flee, boys 0!" boy in, “DiD YOU DREAD PROPOSING TO ME, JouN 2” “On, NO. 1 HAD BEEN TOLD BEFOREHAND THAT YOU WOULDN'T ACCEPT ME.” Hauxsnee (thoughtfully) : It’s because Rud knew men like that, and like you—and all of us from Viceroy to Saés, that he is able to write so truthfully, so vividly, that men and women ten thousand miles away feel that they have mE (Summons her ‘Rickshaw, and all rise to walk down the lawn.) Droch, lived here any us. NEW BOOKS. STELLIGER! AND OTHER ESSAVS CONC NG AMERI York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Melody. By Laura E. Richards. Bostor Marion Darche. By F, Marion Crawford, «of Winky and Other Tales. Miffin and Company. tperhead. By Harold Frederic. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Tom Sylvester. By T,R. Sullivan, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. What Necessity Knows, By 1.. Dougall. New York: Longmans, Grecn, and Company. Drolts from Shadowland. By J. H. Pearce. New York: Macmillan and Company. Duffels, By Edward Eggleston, New York: D. Appleton and Company. Robert of the Sunuy Heart. By tmogen Clark. New York: George M. Allen and Company. . By Barrett Wendell. : Estes and Lauriat New York: Macmillan and Company. By Sarah Orne Jewett. Boston and New York comicbooks.com