Life, 1898-04-14 · page 2 of 20
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# "Pegasus" Contest No. 4 This page is primarily a **literary contest**, not political satire. Life magazine presents an illustration and asks readers to identify which sentence from one of six Tennyson poems it depicts. The six options are: Locksley Hall, The Sisters, Enoch Arden, The Princess, Maud, and Aylmer's Field. The sketch shows a Victorian-era couple on a country road—a woman in a full dress and a man in period clothing. Readers must match this scene to the correct Tennyson line. The contest offered **one hundred dollars** to the winning guesser, with rules requiring proper coupon submission by May 7th. This represents Life's use of literary knowledge as entertainment for educated, affluent readers familiar with canonical poetry.
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