Life, 1898-08-18 · page 2 of 20
Life — August 18, 1898 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The content includes: 1. **Book advertisement** for "Gloria Victis" by J.A. Mitchell (Life's editor), priced $1.25, with favorable reviews from newspapers. 2. **Pears' soap advertisement** emphasizing gentle cleansing without irritation—a common product pitch of the era. 3. **Southern Pacific Co. travel advertisement** promoting luxury rail service to California, Arizona, Mexico, Japan, and China. 4. **LIFE Publishing Company promotion** for framed proofs of original drawings, printed on Japanese tissue paper, available for $2-$4 depending on size and framing. The illustration shows a fashionable woman in early 1900s attire with a large feathered hat—typical decorative imagery for the period's consumer advertisements rather than satirical commentary.
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A New Novel by J. A. MITCHELL, Editor of LIFE. — a, Pears “It is worth reading, and stimulating both to the aspirations and the sympathies.”"—/*%oneer Press, St. Paul. Victie’ | . To keep the skin clean «Gloria Victis’ is one of those books we read, lay down and think about, and discuss, if possible, with another who has read it.” is tc wash the excretions —Uhronicle, Binghamton, N. Y. : F ‘ from it off; the skin takes “J. A. Mitchell, the editor of Ltre, hus a sprightly style anda play of a fancy that make his writivgs always entertaining; and bis ‘Amos Judd’ and care of itself inside, 1f not * That First Affair’ pleased many readers. Mr. Mitchell’s new story, ‘ Gloria Victis "is 1 much more ambitious work than those stories. and will at once blocked outside. give him rank among our contributors te fiction as a writer of daring yet deli- me cate imagination.”—Keening Bulletin, Philadelphia. To wash it often and “Ttis a clever book; every reader will find it entertaining; many will dis- i ing corer in it the fulfillment of a serious literary motive.” —Philadelphia Press. clean, without doing any i it, re- “Tt begins well, but wanders from the path of interest, and steadily in- sort of violence to it, in idiocy after the fourth chapter, In addition to its general inanity, | jut s ory is sloppily written, and one wonders how such a firm as the Seribners quires a most gentle soap, A ppily ever published it.” San Francisco Call. a soap with no tree al- CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, 153-157 Fifth Ave, N. Y. gali in it. - - Pears’, the soap that SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. . .“Sunsgt Limite,” clears but not excoriates. LUXURY, COMFORT, SPEED, For Alt sorts of stores seil it, especially California, Arizona, Mexico, Japan, China, druggists, all sorts ot peopic use it. Around the World. 349 Broapway, anv 1 Batteny Prace (Washington Building), New York. Proofs of Original Drawings in LIFE. THESE proofs are hand-printed on Japanese tissue paper. Large double-page Proofs, framed in Gut, EnctisH Oak, or a White frame, including transportation within one hundred miles of New York, $4. Smaller proofs, $2. Proofs without frames, but matted and mounted ready for framing, at half above rates. Send Stamp for LIFE’S Picture Gallery. Proofs same size as Originals in LIFE. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 19 West 31st Street, N. Y. City. COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENDERSON UNOER THE ACT OF 1801 comicbooks.com