Life — July 19, 1900 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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46 Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previously acknowledged, In Memory of FP. E. W... Toledo, O. seed Fairtield, othy and A. M. Sherrill. H. Hubbard. Rath. sss SSSSSSS SSESESS SEES $2,380.41 IFE is deeply grateful to one of his readers who gave the full amount for the children’s tent, and to two others who also sent their contributions for the same purpose, The tent is now up and in fall use. A TIRED reader writes tothe Keening Post a8 follows : la there any way of putting @ tourniquet on an author to prevent bis beeding to death tna serial’ Surely Mr. Harrie needs such treatment in the case of * Tornmy and Grizel.” Sentimental Tommy haa from the Alart been to many of ax % ungster—a kiod of Sc ny, Io Tartans and un ae one remembers Oliver mesa asylum for decayed punsters. Let us bave ax well an asylum for usea-up characters tu fiction, and let Mr. Barrie be urged to commit Tommy tot promptly. Nobody douvts Unit Mr, Barrie bas # very preity genus fornen- Umental garrullty; he 1s @ kind of nineteenth century Sterne, Warnmnted safe for thissex tn their teens Can't he be persuaded to putan end to Tommy to three chapters and an epliogue, and then tw turn back to hts + Auld Licht ldylis," or “When a Man's Singlet We are afraid not. Mr. Barrie is here for business, and as long as there is anything in it, he will be with us to the bitter end. A Higher Endowment. R. GRIPPERTON : Well, thank heaven, I have a sense of humor —I can always seo a joke. Miss Betta: Oh, Mr. Gripperton, the sense of humor isn’t ability to see a joke—it is ability to take a joke. “ DAPA, is an authoress always a married woman?” “That depends, my son, on whether she can earn enough to support two.’’ AT LIFE'S FARM ND THE BARN The Latest Books. W 2Y George Cossins should ever have perpetrated the Wings of Silence, which has recently been issued by Drexel Biddle (Philadelphia), no one will probably ever know. ‘The characters of the book, like a boiled dinner, all have the same flavor, and the story is far-fetched and pooriy told. London, Paris and Berlin, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Egypt, in As Seen By Me, by Lilian Bell, form the divisions of a charming book, which is written with all the author's usual brilliancy and originality. (Harper and Brothers.) We have had occasion before to refer to the admirable typographical appear- ance of the Beacon Biographies, as issued from time to time by Messrs. Small, Maynard and Company, Boston. The latest volume, Stephen Decatur, by Cyrus Townsend Brady, is an authori- tative account of the great sailor's life. Its chief trouble is that it is written on adead level. Everything that Decatur ever did is faithfully and accurately chronicled, but the author seems to lack the dramatic instinct in dealing with a subject which is in itself in- tensely dramatic. He might have in- troduced some of his talent for novel writing with good results. A bit of good summer reading, pos- sessing considerably more merit than the usual run of Wall Street stories, is The Banker ond the Bear, by Henry Kitchell Webster. Mr. Webster's character drawing is so good as to offset his hazy notion of the laws that control savings banks. (Macmillan.) The title, Flashes of Wit and Humor, by Rober€ Waters, is somewhat mis- leading, These ‘flashes’? are not emitted by Mr. Waters, who merely acts as a parabolic reflector, and having collected them now turns them in one white beam upon a blinded public. The points of the jokes are carefully explained or indicated by italics, show- ing the author's thoughtfulness of those to whom his own swift percep- tions have been denied. (Edgar 8. ‘Werner Company.) OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. Georgie. By 8. F. Kiser. Boston : Small, Maynard and Company. American Art at the Paria Exposition, Noyes, Platt and Company. comicbooks.com