Life — December 16, 1897 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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544 fA The ‘“Pegasus’’ Contest. IFE blushes for his readers. fwelve hundred answers to our Pe ceived, and not one among them the asus” contest were re contained following lines, for which the drawing was made less than youth itself "— is opportunity no fourth line the end in Morituré Sulutanmus from The prevailing error among the poem in which the period, the costume and the were at once suggested by More than uarters dd were from The guessers was in selecting a movement the picture. three: of the answers rece’ Bagry of Bruges, and from Coplas de Manrigue. A careful study of the an- swers only strengthens us in the belief that our readers, having once decided that the drawing referred to some lines * Fur age is opportunity no less than youth itsel in one of these poems, were lulled into a false security and thus abandoned search into less obvious fields. Of course, among so many answers were some which fitted the drawing to perfection. But in most of these cases the drawing, while applicable to the quoted lines, would not have tallied with the picture in the poet’s mind, —Loxorrt.ow's * Morituri Salutamus.” never wears trousers, but if he did, that hundred dollars would burn a hole through his pocket after so many honest guesses had been re- ceived. Therefore, in the contest to begin with the next number we shall simply add this money to the other pre- mium, making a prize of two hundred dollars, instead of one hundred. Misplaced INCE Peter Schimmel sold his shadow to the devil there has hardly been quite so conspic- uous an alienation of . a a personal attribute as the loan of his visage by Mr. Charles Dudley Warner to a company that is publishing a sort of literary encyclopedia. Mr. Warner is the editor of the encyclopedia, and seems to “GET OPF THAT TRUNK, SIR! THE GOVERNMENT LIKE THAT.” “1 DON'T WANT To DO THE 1 WANT To DO MY DUTY.” have thrown his picture in to make good measure. That is a custom of authors nowadays, When they sell goods they throw in a photograph and the right to print it, The only difference in Mr. Warner's case is that his concern has valued his picture more highly than most publishers value most likenesses, and has spread it more industriously abroad, Mr. Gerald Stanley Lee has «leclared in the Critic that the publication of it, un- reproved. “strikes at the existence of any great art or You CAN'T DO GOVERNMENT. Apprehension. literature that we can ever hope to claim,” but that is not because he considers Mr. Warner a reprebensibly homely person, of his likeness an objectionable likeness, but merely because he thinks it doubtful taste to advertise books by such means. That may possibly be: but in this case, if Mr. Warner can stand it the rest of us can, and if art and literature can't stand it they are weaker in the knees than has been supposed. The real thing to be feared is!not what scares Mr. Lee so, but this: that by ithe time Mr. Warner has finished amalgamating his selections of literature he will have grown tired of seeing his looks lavished about so freely, and will pack his grip and go to Europe and stay there, Peter Schimmel got his shadow back. Here's hoping that Mr, Warner may recover the u of his face, and stay at home to enjoy it POLITICAL TREE. comicbooks.com