Life — July 29, 1897 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Our Fresh-Air Fund. ey ‘ ™ thing that comes naturally to observant . i ] minds. But once in a while there hap- TRE. il) jcompromise: ; pens along a rare kind of fancy that likes Some of the recent “ ” 48: tn to juggle with grotesque and amusing weather has been hard on Bobbo” and “ Hell-fer-Sartain.’ ; city children, especially the ideas. The late Thomas Wharton was sick ones, But if those of HE rarest kind of short story that our one of these, and it was a wise thing for Yoeuerwillgivehalf off to present writers produce is the fanciful his friend, Owen Wister, to collect a vol- yi this fund we will let you off. i or fantastic tale which hardly touches reality umein his memory. ‘* Bobbo” (Harper) |" Berry erences 4 with its toes, but pirouettes about the stage is acharming conceit, light and airy, and or death to hundreds of ina blaze of light and laughter. American full of color as a soap-bubble. It has BeFore. YOuDg people we know of. short story writers have mostly drawn their little touches of humanizing feeling in it iously acknowledged. S inspiration from certain localities, and have _ to bring it within the range of sympathy. wr : reflected local character. Thisisthe kindof The writing of it is of the deft, intelli- S.A. of Da: Emily Fitch Iq memory of Bertha. W, Smith, .. Tea Ticket. Troy Budge' Virginia, Cornel Merritt. F.A.M a Conn., given by Robert Cushman and Burgoyne Hamilton, aged 15 years 70 Mildred H. Selfridge...... In memory of a dear mother. M. P., Beach Haven, N. Y S8SESESSER 1 S 3 6 5 5 1 5 In memory of B.C. $2,054 45 We acknowledge also, with many thanks, the following: - From Messrs. A. G. Spalding & Bros.: Twelve balls, twelve bats, five catching glove: From Messrs, Cannery Bros.: Two boxes of firecrackers and eight packages of torpedoes. From Mrs. P. S. Hawk, Ridgefield, Conn-, on IN THE BROOK AT LIFE’S FARM. 1, 11, an ice-cream and cake birthday party to 1FE’S FarM for her little daughter. gent, graceful kind that shows the careful artist in words, ° * * OHN FOX, JR., in ** Hell-fer-Sartain” (Har- per), has collected ten of his Cumberland Gap dialect sketexes. Each is very short, and makes its point without superfluous words. The dialect is not of the complicated kind that needs aglossary, and itis avery useful vehicle in the interpretation of the crooked and uncertain character of Abe Shivers and the subtleties of Ole Tom Perkins who lived on land “so durned pore that I hain't never been able to raise my voice.” There is more reality in these little stories than we are accustomed to expect from mountaineers in the elaborate, melodramatic productions which Craddock has associated with that type of character. Moreover, Mr. Fox has simplified things by taking sunsets and storms for granted. If you squeeze the weather reports out of one of Craddock's long novels, the re- siduum is not much longer thao one of Mr, Fox's tales. @ * * ISS GUINEY, in her recent volume of col- lected essays called “ Patrins” (Cope- land & Day), makes some very sensible remarks “THE WORLD REFORE HER.” on “Sadness in Literature." She would not