Life — June 15, 1899 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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«4 | AN MACLAREN” must not blame the Americans if his present visit has fallen a trifle flat. We overdid him before, and the reuction was inevitable, Moreover, while Dr. Watson is a good man, whoso heart is undoubtedly kind and honest, bis literary productions are not of the highest order. And the tenderest women soon reach a limit where oven tears become monotonous and ceaso to charm, Lire extends its heartiest sympathies to this erstwhile idol, for, while he may not bo oversensitive in many particulars, he has displayed a capacity for absorbing {incense unparalleled in the history of litor- ature. . * . T is oxasperating to hear the Prosi- dent of the United States called @ liar, ‘Tho journals which in- dulge in such directness of speech can have no real rover- ence for the noble holder of our most exalted office. They ought to understand that President McKinley's pledge to uphold Civil Service Reform was, meant in a Pickwickian sense, and that bis rocent exemption of four thousand offices from the control of tho Civil Service laws was practical politics. “WELL, OLD PELLOW, ARE Yor GOING TO THE ORGAN RECITAL IN THE 8aLooN To- wiout?” “No, THANK YOU; 1AM HAVING ALL THE ORGAN RELITALS I NEED." 515 SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC CANCER. HE large and distinguished audience which witnessed the recent perform- ance of Ibsen's “Ghosts,” at the Carnegio Lyceum, went away thoroughly convinced of tho author's powor as a dramatist, but with a mighty disgust for bis topic. The fact that the piece was admirably playod only made its horrors moro evident and real, Tho suggestion of inherited disease {8 not pleasant; its detailed depiction on tho stage is unjustifiable, Most of those who saw tho play will agree with Nordau that Ibsen's is the genius of degeneracy. . . . AMOA seoms to Lo competing with Iro- land for tho reputation of being “ the most unhappy island that God has overs seen,” und, considering its size, is doing very well in the competition. According to the apparently veracious detalla given by tho family of Robert Louis Stevenson, America’s appointee, Chief-Justice Cham- bors, is responsible for a large part of the prevailing unbappiness, ° . . 8 an outcomo of the recent kidnapping caso in New York, it seemed possible, at one time, that the proprietor and some of the employees of a yellow journal might find their way to prison, The general sutis- faction expressed over this possibility was & credit to the better feeling of the com- munity, e 6 6 GPKATOR HANNA I successfully tak- Sing tho preliminary steps for anothor four years of government from Obio, by Ohio, for Ohio.