Life, 1896-04-09 · page 2 of 20
Life — April 9, 1896 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not political commentary. The main content promotes three products: 1. **"Chip's Dogs"** — A humorous cartoon collection book by artist "Chip," priced at $1.00. The small illustration shows a dog, establishing the book's subject matter. 2. **Life's Comedy** — A magazine supplement featuring American girl illustrations, priced at 25 cents. 3. **Other advertisements** for dress fabrics, books, and imported goods from retailers like Arnold Constable & Co. and Stern Bros. There is no apparent political satire on this page. It reflects turn-of-the-century commercial publishing and retail, showcasing how Life magazine supplemented editorial content with advertisements for books, fashion, and merchandise targeting middle-class readers.
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LIFE: “Chip’s” Dogs. A collection of humorous drawings by the famous “CHIP,” so well known in the columns of Lire and | elsewhere. Large Quarto 9% x 12, on plate paper, handsomely bound, Price, $1.00. For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of price by the publishers, R. H. Russell & Son, 33 Rose St., NEW YORK. LIFE’S COMEDY. HE first number of Lire's Comepy, devoted to THE AMERICAN GIRL, is now out. Second Edition Nearly Exhausted. It contains 32 pages df beau- ‘tifully printed illustrations on heavy calendered paper, with a specially decorated cover printed in colors. PRICE, 25 cents. Subscriptions One Dollar a Year. Postage Paid. Drawings by Gibson, Wenzell, Van Schaick, Johnson, Sulli- vant, and others. MITCHELL & MILLER, PUBLISHERS, 19 & 21 West 3ist St., New York City. EVERY PROPER BOOK And ai less than you expect to pay—unless you know our recent way of doing the Book Business, We have no place for the poor-paper, poor-print apologies for Books dverlised. SPRING STYLES. that are often advertised Dress Fabrics. We begun by choosing qualities thal are worthy, then we push the prices as far down as taking great lots and knowing what to take permits. THESE ARE AT RANDOM: Mohairs. Plain and Glacé Mohairs, Fancy Figured Mohairs. Suitings. Silk and Wool Mixed Effects. Check Suitings, | Plain Colored Fabrics. Canvas Grenadines, Cheviots, Armures, Serges, Diagonals, Printed and Satin Stripe Challies Plaid, Stripe and Fancy. Grenadines. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia of Names. vols. Quarto. Containing 8,16: pages. _HandSomely printed, wit wide margins. $70.00. Our price, $49.00. Washington Irving’s Works. Without the Life of Washington. 6vols. 12mo. Our price, $2.00. For Lust of Gold, A romance, Being the adventures of Boulmer, Goddard, and others in their search for the golden city of Manoa. By AARON WATSON. ramo. Illustrated. $1.25. Our price, 4o cents, From Wisdom Court. By HENRY SETON MERRIMAN STEPHEN G. TALLEN- tyRE. With illustrations by E. Cour- boin.” :2mo. $1.50. Our price, 18 cents. | the SecinenctYentes: By lous Ruecr, With numerous illustrations, 3 vols. ramo. "Over 1,200 pages. $2.00. Our price, $1.15. The Modern Painters, By Joux Rus. KIN, Illustrated. 5 vols. :2mo. arly 2,000 pages. $3.50. Our price, $1. From Manger to Throne, A life of Jesus the Christ, and a history of Pales- Une and its people. By Rev. T. DE Witt TALMAGE. Illustrated with more ae NEW YORK. Our Book Catalogue, than 200 engravings. 544 pages. Size, 4 gx7 inches. $2.50. Our price, 70 cents. Chambers's Encyclopwdia. Rewritten * and enlarged. New type, new subjects, new illustrations, new maps. 10 vols. 17,360 columns of rei matter ; over 11,000,000 words ; 3,037 ill lustrations : 92 two-page colored maps; 7 plain ma) 3 A limited number of sets in alf leather binding, marbled edges, equal to the usual $45.00 sets, $27.50. Kit Carson's Wild West. A record of the romantic and daring exploits of Kit Carson and his companions. By DE witt C. Peters, U.S. A. Large 8v0. s67 pages. Our price, 75 cents. St, Nicholas—Bound Volume, A year's reading for a youngster, and the very best of its kind. What the Century is for grown peopie the st. Nicholas is for children, A whole year (1 One large volume. 1,104 pages. C cy Price, $1.40. Wild Flowers of America. Flowers of every State in the American Union. By a corps of special artists and botanists. 288 plates 6! inches, in colors, descriptions. Our price, $2.50, 128 pages, sent free. *Splong,” 128% inches. Stern Bro§ are now showing Later Importations of High Class Novelties in Paris Dress Goods consisting of Etamines, Voile Fantasie, Canvas Boucle, Two-tone Mohalrs. Printed Warp Effecs Fancy Embroidered and Striped Linens With New Effects in Black Dress Fabrics Plain and Fancy Grenadié Etamine Broche, Boursovf Canvas and Mohair Siciliars mene West 23d St