Life, 1897-08-05 · page 2 of 26
Life — August 5, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising material** for Life Publishing Company and The Century magazine, not political satire. The central image shows a caricatured figure with exaggerated features at a drawing table—likely representing a cartoonist or artist—advertising "Life's Comedy" fine drawings. The figure appears to be a stock comedic character type common to early 20th-century magazines, used generically to represent artistic endeavor rather than to lampoon a specific political figure or contemporary person. The surrounding text advertises The Century's midsummer holiday travel number, various books, and Life's subscription rates. A small political note mentions President Johnson, but the page's primary purpose is magazine promotion, not satirical commentary.
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YOU CAN HAVE .:-.:-- ¢ Foening Post sent to you while away, and the address changed as often as desired, may be sent to 1242 Broadway, or to the Main Office, 206-210 Broadway. Two wecks, 36 cents; one month, 75 cents. Orders MIDSUMMER August HOLIDAY NUMBER Ready. Tne CENTURY TRAVEL NUMBER. Castaigne’s Splendid Panorama of THE HUDSON RIVER. A series of large pictures illustrating the Hudson from the Statue of Liberty to Now Albany, with an article on ‘The Lordly Hudson,” by Clarence Cook. THE ALASKA TRIP described by John Muir, after whom. the famous * Muir Glacier” was named; illus- trated, A JOURNEY IN THESSALY, 7? rof. Goodell, of Yale, setting forth the scene of the recent fighting between Turk and Greek, NORWAY. Articles by Horace E. Scudder and the late H. H. Boyesen, with photograph of the midnight sun. DOWN TO JAVA, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, author of * Jinrikisha Days,” with a great number of illustrations. ON MARGATE’S SANDS. ‘The Coney Island of London described by Mrs. Pennell, with Pictures by Joseph Pennell. _ Secret History. UNPUBLISHED FACTS RELAT- ING TO THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON, BY JOHN M. SCHOFIELD, Lieutenant-General, U.S.A., Retired. OTHER ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES, SHORT STORIES, Etc., Etc. Sold everywhere. Price 35 cents. THE CENTURY CO., N. Y. All you have guessed about life insurance may WE Sumime PAY Sesucers “ POST- by the PERE Nivtoat ACE LIFE, g2t-3-5 Chestnut . Street, Philadelphia. LIFE’S COMEDY. ARE YOU FOND OF Fi me Printed on Magnificent Paper inthe . oer ee ee HIGHEST STYLE OF THE... PRINTER'S ART? Then Subscribe for LIFE’S COMEDY, Published Quartesly at $1.00 A YEAR By . LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 19 West Thirty-first Street, New York City The Year’s Good Nov The NEW YORK TIMES sep ta paper read at a Conference «| rican ibrary Association in Philas on the fiction of the past year, "deo: the statement that there are no great nowadays, and mentions that withs; twelvemonth such works as Sir ead and shoulders above all others" ON THE PACE OF THE Witg B 15th Thousand “Where native life, thought 91 concerned. Mrs, Steel’ leaves nothing t J. Lockwoop Kiptixo, THE CHOIR INVISIBLE | BY 24th | wanes uw Thousand | comestns Price, “The longest, strongest, and most ‘Mr, Allen's novela” —Chicago Tribune. SIR GRORGE TRESSID 20th i Thousand Full of fine scenes pat before us wid chological insight, emot fer deacriptive colorin OTHER SUMMER NOVE A ROSE OF YESTERDIL BY beat that F, MARION CRAWFORD Cloth, 81.25, es FROM THE LAND OF THE pa : MRS. ELLA HIGGINSON. Cloth, $1.50, Hartford. SHOU! ber short Ushed ti $54 Express, Bi Fifteen Delightful Stories o! OLD TIMES IN MIDDLE BY * Hist R. MALCOLM JOHNSTON. Cloth, $1.50, THE GREY LADY. _| By HENRY SETON MERR Cloth, 12mo. Price, $1. *: interesting, original and O* structed 2 7rliune, Geka,