Life, 1895-04-25 · page 8 of 18
Life — April 25, 1895 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Page 274 from Life Magazine This page contains **book reviews** rather than political cartoons. The left side features two illustrations with captions about "Miss Hanter's friends" being "surprised recently when they saw her coming" and "It was not as they supposed"—likely satirizing social expectations or fashion of the era. The right side reviews several books including George Meredith's "Lost Stories," Harry P. Robinson's "Man Born Equal" (a study of Chicago labor conditions), Francis Walker's "Letters of a Baritone," and William Henry Shelton's "A Man Without a Memory." The small illustrations titled "**A Day with Cholly's Feet**" appear to humorously document a character's footwear throughout the day (8 A.M. through 1:30 P.M.), likely satirizing fashion or social pretension.
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- LIFE: (wry STAY that if a custom exists, there was a time when most people believed and found FAT it to be the easiest and most convenient way of doing things. All of which prologue merely leads up to saying that the books on one’s table at Easter are apt not to take themselves too seriously, but are none the worse for that. E} wvnigny YOU CAN TARE . * * MONG them, of greatest interest to a certain coterie, is the volume of George Meredith's Lost Stories— The Tale of Chloe, and Others ” (Ward, Lock & Co.) which, after seventeen years, are rescued from an old magazine. They were worth saving, particularly the title story, though they can add nothing to his reputation, and the second tale, “ The House on the Beach,” will, perhaps, even cool off some Meredith enthusiasts. There is not a character in it within the range of one’s sympathies. A long novel of unusual seriousness of purpose’ (a real winter book), is Harry P. Robinson’s “ Men Born Equal " (Harpers)—a study of social and labor conditions in Chicago—which was really written before the great strikes, but has the appearance of having been called into being by them. The story contains three characters—two men and a young woman—that are very well portrayed from the realist’s stand-point. The author's position as the editor of a railway paper enables him to deal with social problems from full knowledge. A book of unusual charm is “Letters of a Baritone” (Scribners), by Francis Walker. It records the experiences of a young American singer who goes to Italy to study his profession. It is filled with artistic sensibility and enthusiasm, but its chief charm is its perfect simplicity. There is a literary quality in all these letters which makes them delightful reading for the layman as well as the musician, Magazine readers, in the past few years, have been favored with occa- sional short stories from an artist who was in the war and has the faculty of vividly recording his impressions with pen as well as pencil. Moreover, he has ingenu- ity in constructing plots, That is why people will be glad to get in book form William Henry Shelton’s “A Man Without a Memory” (Scribners) and eight other tales, Several of the stories have an amusing element of farce-comedy in them, It WAS NOT AS THEY SUPPOSED. Droch. A DAY WITH CHOLLY’S FEET. comicbooks.com