Life — March 8, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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who are too easily carried away with fiction that is entirely flippant At any rate, the “In Which” school of fiction (as James L. Ford would call it) has started upon a prosperous run in this country. Thero are still some very good corners of the map to progmpt; and the steadfast hero and coy but determined heroine are always available to undertake their thrill- ing adventures in any climate and at any period of local or national history. Droch New Publications. AMAN'S WOMAN, By Frank Norris. New York: Doubleday and McClure Company. BY THE MARSHES OP MINAS. By Charles G.D. Roberts. Itoston New York, Chicago: Siluer, Burdette and Company. WITH SWORD AND CRUCIFIX. By E. 8. van Zile, New York and London: Harper and Brothers, THF FATE OP MADAME LATOUR. By Mrs, A.G. Paddock. New York: Fords, Howard and Hulbert, ‘This book, which deals with some of the horrors: of Mormonism, Was first published a score of Years age, and la how relxsued, no doubt, because ‘of the tuterest Io the Roberts case. THE LIGHT OF SCARTHEY. By Egerton Castle, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. TALIESIN, A Masque. By Rich- ard Hovey. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, is 1% the fourth drama of tho Janncelot und Guenrerre, in which the author has taken the Arthurian legends for his subject. ‘The ground has been broken 80 well before that Mr. Hovey hus done & venturesome thing. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD. By Mary Johnston, Boston and New York: Houghton, Aiglin anu Company. Tus joke appeared in Lire, November 80, 1899: The Way of the Schemer. De Faque: It I could get some one totnvesta thousand in that schemy of mine, I could take some money. Crawrorv: How much could you make? “ Why, « thousand.” And this joke appeared in the New York Sun, February 28, 1900 : A Definite Thing. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. De Faque: If I could get Some one to invest a thousand The Chamois Tiger : WERE YOU EVER IN LovEt The Doll : NO, t NEVER MET ANYONE WITIL MONEY, dollars in that scheme of mine, I could make some money. Cnawronp: How much could you make? “ Why, a thousand.” It might not be a bad idea for the Sun to read what appears in Lire, which would not only be a liberal education in MR. W. D. He LIFE'S CARICATURE CAMEOS OP PROFOUND PERSONS, OR MODEKN MUGS MODELLED IN MUD. itself, but might obviate the necessity of encouraging literary theft. A Masterpiece of Resistance. { DGAR: Tiff Thornton is a great success as a bachelor, isn't he? Mrs. Epoar: A great suc- cess asa bachelor? What do you mean? “Why, every woman he knows has either tried to marry him herself, or to get him married to some other woman.” The Modern Lethe. “€CAY, Jones, if the girl you loved wouldn't have you, what would you do to forget her?” ‘Eat some lobster New- burg, a Welsh rarebit and a mince pie at midnight.” “Hub, what good is that ?” “Well, if you don’t forget her for the next twenty-four hours, anyway, you're more of an ostrich than I am,” A Trade in Itself. ITIZEN: See here, I'll give you adime, but I be- lieve you asked me for money only yesterday. Why don't you learn some good business? Ante-Bopiep Brooar: I have learned one, sir; I'm a re-toucher, comicbooks.com