Life, 1895-02-21 · page 2 of 18
Life — February 21, 1895 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains: 1. **Whiting Mfg Co.** advertisement for solid sterling silver goods (Broadway & 18th St., New York) 2. **Hilton, Hughes & Co.** advertising a silk sale—"immense lines of freshest, newest Spring Silks" at low prices, located at "The Entire Block, Broadway, 4th Ave., 9th and 10th Sts." 3. **Book advertisements** for F. Marion Crawford novels (*The Ralstons*, *Katharine Lauderdale*, *Marcella*) The page header says "LIFE," but this particular page lacks political cartoons or satirical commentary. It's a commercial advertising section typical of periodicals from this era (appears to be late 19th century based on typography and product types). No identifiable caricatures or political references are present.
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Solid Silver (Exclusively.) OF STERLING QUALITY EVERY ARTICLE BRARI THEREVORE PURCHASERS SECURE ENTIRE FREEDOM FROM FALSE IMPRESSIONS, Waitinc Mre Co. Silversmiths, Broadway & 18th St., NEW YORK. HILTON, HUGHES & C0. Successors te A. T. STEWART & CO. = SILKS — FROM THE — GREAT TRADE SALE Immense lines of the freshest, newest Spring Silks, bought at the lowest prices known for years, are now offered to the Retail Buyer at a very slight advance in price. Black Silks |NoveltySilks 1.50 Grades. Every New Idea. 1.50 and 1.75 Grades. 9 5 cts. 9 5s. THE ENTIRE BLOGK, Broadway, 4th Ave., 9th and 10th Sts, Tarrant toa ona ‘As an inventor of plots and a teller of entrancing tales, Mr. Crawfurd has to< few equals,"—" Droch” in Life. MR. F. MARION CRAWFORD’S NEW NOVEL SECOND EDITION NOW READY. THIRD EDITION IN PR THE RALSTONS. By F. Buckram, $2.00, * Vastly interesting and readable. Of greater interest than *Katharine Lauderdale,’ s we recall it with a new admiration. incidents have the dramatic quality - they im- press the reader as actual occurrences, and he feels that he is actually in the scene. What warmer praise than that could any novelist have?"—N. VY. Times. * The adventures of * Katharine Lauderdale’ afe continued in a way that is entrancingly en- tertaining. . There is humor, pathos, grief and passion ‘in’ these two volumes, which the author has endowed with a living interest.” Kosten Journal. Uniform with the above, 1gth Edition. KATHARINE LAUDERDALE By F, MARION CRAWFORD, author of ion Darche," * A Roman Sing- er, Illustrated. 2. volumes, small 12mo, Buckram, $2.00, “A most admirable novel, excetlent in flashing with humor, and full of the ripest wisest reflections upon men and women.’ Westminster Gazette, “It is the first time, we think, in American fiction that any such breadth of view has shown itself in the study of our social framework,"— Life. etc. yle, od By aad PERTERTON Act oF 1091. Marion Crawrorp, author of “Katharine Lauderdale, “Saracinesca,” “Don Orsino,” etc. 2 volumes. Small 12mq “ Mr. Crawford's new stor is as powerful work as any t his pen. t has come {04 fiction, the story be heartily enjoyed everyone whoreadsit."— Edinburgh Scotsme! “The book is admirably written ; it ci passages full of distinction it is instinct wir intensity of purpose ; the characters 2 with a living touch.""—London Daily News. “Asa story, pure and simpte, * The Ralston fascinates and enchains. .. ‘A charming 244 absorbing story.""— Heston Traveller. Tenth Edition. Mrs. Humphry Ward's Latest Nix MARCELLA. By Mrs. HUMPHRY Warp, author “The History of David Grieve. “Robert Elsmere,” ete., etc. new portrait. In 2 volume: t2mo. Bound in polished Buckram in box, $2.00. * Marcella is a novel not to be lightly pas over; it seems to us the greatest that M Ward has written, viewed as a romance be read for the interest and pleasure it aflordi and easily the greatest. written by a wom since the pen fell from George Eliot's band.” The Independent.