Life — June 24, 1897 — page 7: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

She; BEFORE WE WERE MARRIED YOU USED TO SAY I WAS AN ANGEL, “DAD USED TO TELL ME THERE WERE THREE CELEBRATED LIARS IN OUR TOWN; THAT MY BROTHER WAS ONE, AND I THE OTHER TWO.” 527 conscious fun that young Langham gets out of it. He is a good type of college football hero in action. . . * M* BANGS has made “The Pursuit of the House-boat" (Harper) as entertaining asits forerunner, and that is high praise for a sequel. It is saved from being a mere continuation by making the women charac- ters the prominent feature, and is brought up to date with Sherlock Holmes, The best stroke of humor in the story is Mrs. Noah as skipper of the House-boat, with Lucretia Borgia in charge of the cuisine (after it had been discovered that her maid had left her assortment of poisons at home). The mingling of old literary allusions with very modern newspaper topics gives the snap to the narrative. Itis literature, mythology and history up to date. Mr. Newell's illustra- tions are full of the essence of humor. ‘They need no text to make you laugh, and are abounding in technical originality. Droch. A YOUNG CITIZEN. “TEACHER (severely) : You were late this morning, Willie. LirrLe WESTERN Boy: Yes'm, but it wasn’t my fault. I stopped to help lynch a man. R. DANA, of the Sun, has his eye on the doings of all bis late unfaithful partners in the news gathering business, He reminds the Hera/d that it has not made an accounting for its last year’s free-ice fund, and he scoffs very unfeelingty, in- deed, at Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the President's special envoy to the Queen's Jubilee. This diffusion of Mr. Dana's attentions makes his paper better reading than when its fire was concentrated on Mr. Godkin and J. P. There is a lot of charm in variety.