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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising for books**, not political satire or comics. The dominant content consists of publisher advertisements for literary works, including: - Maude Adams edition of *The Little Minister* - *Sketches and Cartoons* by C.D. Gibson - *Cyrano de Bergerac* - Various historical and romantic novels The two images visible appear to be **book illustrations** rather than editorial cartoons—one shows a figure on horseback (likely from *The Adventure of the Lady Ursula*), and the other appears to be a dramatic scene. There is **no apparent political satire or social commentary** on this page. It represents standard late-19th century magazine content: literary advertisements aimed at educated readers interested in novels, drama adaptations, and illustrated editions.

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ENTERED AT THE NEW YORK POST OFFICE AS BECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. copymicny, BY MITCHELL & MILLER MAUDE ADAMS wimowor THE LITTLE MINISTER R. H. RUSSELL 25 WEST 291TH St: NEW YORK LONDON. 156 Fifth Ave , NEW YORK. COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENDERSON UNDER THE ACT OF 18 SUMPTUOUS new illustrated edition of this most popular novel, with 32 full-page pictures of Miss Adams and her company, illustrating the principal scenes in the story. Every one who has ever read the story or seen the play will want this beautiful book. In luxurious binding of white vellum, elaborately stamped in gold, THE size 64x 934, 400 pages, each copy sealed and enclosed in a box. The most attractive gift-book of the year. Price $2.50. “AP SKETCHES AND CARTOONS. By C. D. GIBSON. NR. GIBSON’S NEW BOOK FOR 1893, containing eighty-four of his best cartoons and sketches, beautifully printed on heavy paper and handsomely bound, being the thiré book in the series of which ** Drawings by C, D, Gibson” was the first and “It “Pictures of People" the second, It is confidently expected that this will be the most popular, as it is the most artistic Bernal and entertaining of all Mr. Gibson's books. Large folio, 12x18 inches, bound in Japan vellum with white vellum also in back. Each copy enclosed in a box. Price $5.00. meatal Edition-deluxe, consisting, of 250 first impressions, each copy aumbered and sigaed by Mr. Gibson, together with artist's proof Price $10.00. ~ CYRANO DE BERGERAC. THE ADVENTURE OF THE m LADY U JLA. Asth By EDMOND ROSTAND, ‘The authorized edition, . EADY URSUDA . had ex« = : . " By ANTHONY HOPE, One of the most delightful bits of their et Translated from the French, under M. Rostand's per- hirh work Mr, Hope has done since the ** Dolly Dialogues,” whieh | sonalsupervision. More than 75,000 copies of the book ; Much bi Beautifully printed with six exquisite illustrations, done of the have already been sold in France. 294 pp., with bs i 3 4 7 in photogravure, of Mr. Sothern and Miss Harned in the toc! frontispiece portrait of M. Coquelin as * Cyrano. et i ‘ principal scenes of the play. Size 6x9 inches; decorated Linen cloth cover. Price $1.00, covers Price $1.50. T Any of these books will be sent to any address, carriage paid, by the publisher, on receipt of published price. | 4 st Ae New Fail Catalogue, with full-page illustrations by GIBSON : NICHOLSON : ABBEY : KEMBLE : Mailed free on Application. The Phuipp “2 IMPORTANT BOOKS PUBLISHED BY “LAMSON, WOLFFE & COMPANY. Be THE SANTIAGO CAMPAIGN. A CIRCLE IN THE SAND. ita By Major-Generat Josertt WitERLER. By Kate Jorpan. $1.25. This book consists of about 380 pp., with photogravure frontispiece of General Wheeler, and with seven maps showing the position of the United CARTAGENA, OR THE LOST BRIGADE: tates and the Spanish forces on different days preceding the surrender of | A Story of Colonial Heroism in the British War with | | Bound in blue cloth, : $3.00 Spain, 1740-1742. = : Gs By Cartes W. HALL. $1.50. =A THE LAND OF CONTRASTS: | An historical romance, dealing with the fortunes and bitter failure of By te A Briton’s View of His American Kin. | the less well-known English Armada, sent in 1741 under Admiral Lord / By James FULLARTON Muiritean. $1.50. | Edward Vernon, to reduce Cartagena, the citadel of Spanish power in ‘Kine We do not sce ourselves in these pages as others see us, but rather | America, and, as it was fondly hoped, other cities in Cuba and elsewhere. trespe as we see ourselves by a chance glimpse in a mirror which presents an sre st eae ad Med te oe sso = writer aspect of familiar strangeness "— ‘he Boston Transcript. THE GRAY HOUSE OF THE QUARRIES. tory te CYRANO DE BERGERAC. . _A New Novet. By Mary Haxriott Norris, b g With a frontispiece etching by Edmund H. Garrett. - - $1.50 From the French of Epmoxp Rostanp. “Th ; sSoeetches i , Bag: Fie nat ¢ peculiar genre for which, in a literary sense. all must acknowl- * Howarp Tnayer Kivascury's English version, accepted and played by | edge obligation to the author of a new type, is the Dutch-American yo Rican Manseietn. Cloth, $1.00. Paper, 50 cents. | species. The churchgoings, the courtings, the pleasures and sorrows of a a Mr. Kingsbury's translation has preserved much of the original flavor, | Primitive people, their lives and deaths, weddings, suicides, births, and Indian and also proved itself in many passages a work of poctic talent on its own | Burials, are Rembrandt and Rubens pictures on a fresh canvas."—7he soon account. The style is Elizabethan blank verse, faithfully adhered to é ree ae = throughout the piece, except where it is pleasantly varied by Gascon bits YE LYTTLE SALEM MAIDE: of song. . . a —_ ee A Story of Witchcraft. A SISTER TO EVANGELINE: A 1 REESE ee Oe es van 7 Being the Story of Yvonne de Lamourie, and how she | ,,,, oan Fig a apart n eine eben sn etn EY rt Vi Ae eal DE 3 ile with the-vill f Grand Pré. Hustrated with four full-page photogravures from drawings by E wen into exi le with e villagers of Grand Pre. Hamilton, - z : - : = é $1.50 By Gr A Naw Novat. By Cuaates GD. Rowssts. Bi.56. “Nothing could be more artistically conceived than this charming ce A salini little tale, and * ye lyttle aide," with her abundant faults, which included PHILIP: the Story of a Boy Violinist. a weakness for the ‘ follies and vanities o' youth,’ and a very brisk tongue, By T. W. O. $1.25. is a figure one will not wish to forget."—Chicago Evening Post. By ORDER FROM YOUR BOOKSELLER ‘ALER, OR DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHERS. ; r a mie = = young