Life — August 23, 1900 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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146 Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previously acknowledged. : In Memory of Dorothea Eleanor |. Hastings. : Series of Gibson Pictures by the young tagers and residents In the M Kt ‘and Yact ba 88 Laura Karn In Memory ¢ Cash. oster Wiimerdiug. SSSsssseesseseesee $4,189.77 Acknowledgments. 7 ERY welcome additions to Lire’s Fresh- Air Farm are an Estey organ, the gift of Mrs. Hawk, of Ridgefield, Conn., and fifty new hymn books, the gift of Lewis P. Miller, Esq., of Georgetown, Conn, Lire’s Farm is also in receipt of three barrels of water crackers from Messrs. Chatland and Lenhart, Brownsville, Pa., accompanied by the following expression of good will : We can assure you the pleasure It gives us In donating these will not be exceeded by the pleasure the children will have eating them, and beg that next year you will put as on your reminder at the beginning of the year, and we will make a consignment to last the whole year, (THOSE many readers who have known 1s from the start, and who, during seventeen years, have enjoyed our book reviews, will regret to hear that “ Droch,”” Mr. Robert Bridges, has severed his connection with this journal. These reviews have been courageous and impartial, the outcome of a cultured mind,unfettered by any considerations of business or of policy. They have been the honest expression of a critical, yet an exceptionally appreciative spirit. Seventeen years, in the life of anything human, is a longish period, and it means, in this case, a personal friendship. And while regretting this departure of our friend, we shall continue to believe, in spite of his assertion to the contrary, that some futuge day, perhaps, we again may work together. Not All Lost. EAE: Do you think our practice of sending mission- aries to foreign countries does any good ? Grasse: Yes; to this country. SCENE (BuTLer’s Pantry): Aunt Mary discovers Regi- nald, who has been kept from school by slight illness, eating mince pie. Horrirtep Aunt Mary: Why, Reggie, what would Dr. Brown say if he could see you now? REGINALD (complacently): He'd be pleased, Aunt Mary ; he likes to have his patients well nourished. AT LIFE'S FARM. RETURN FROM THE APPLE HUNT. V \7 E have received from Mr. Robert Waters a copy of John Selden and Hia Table Talk, which is itself dull enough for modern readers, being only a literary curiosi Mr. Waters has hit upon the only possible expedient for making this book any duller, however, by interpolating his own explanatory remarks throughout the text. (New York: Eaton and Mains.) . A readable little book of short stories is The Repentant Magdalen, by May Isabel Fisk. (New York : Zimmerman’s.) It is a pity that the text does not correspond in finish to the color and pictorial part of The Animals’ Trip to the Sea, an otherwise amusing book for children issued by E. P. Dutton and Company. Books on South Africa, in view of more recent stirring developments, seem to lack interest now, so fast does the world move. In Svuth Africa With Buller, by George Clarke Musgrave, is a readable account of the recent campaign, and is prefaced with a short history of the Transvaal. (Boston : Little, Brown and Company.) One of the most attractive books we have seen, either from a typographical or pictorial point of view, is 7'ke Rockies of Canada, by Walter Dwight Wilcox, F. R. G. It is printed in clear, beautiful type, and the photogravure illustrations are beyond praise. The author is thoroughly in touch with his subject, and writes entertainingly and instructively. comicbooks.com