Life, 1900-11-15 · page 3 of 28
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Page 383 This page contains literary commentary and social satire rather than political cartoons. The main content includes: **"Love's Such a Fool!"** - A poem by Emma Carlisle about love's blindness, accompanied by illustrations of romantic scenes. **"The Thrusting of Greatness"** - Commentary defending the Chamberlin McCracken's Hall of Fame as a legitimate institution despite criticism. The text defends tabulating "greatness" through voting, responding to detractors who dispute this methodology. **"A Sure Thing"** - Dialogue satirizing Wall Street schemes, where one character pitches a stock-buying scam while another questions its legitimacy. **Additional note** regarding Mr. Barrie and "Tommy and Grizel"—likely a literary criticism about characterization. The page is primarily satirical commentary on American institutions (fame-making, finance) rather than political cartooning.
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E cannot be too thankful that Chancellor McCrack- en’s Hall of Fame is a private enterprise, and that there is no public accountability for the selection of the names that are to adorn its walls. Wrangling has begun already over Robert E. Lee, and there has been grumbling because the rules shut out Alexander Hamilton. But the Hall has a good defense in its irresponsibility. Its projectors got the best judges they could, and wisely de- cline to go behind their returns. Re- garding greatness as a matter of opinion, they have determined relative greatness by tabulating the votes of judges. Persons who disagree in any particulars with the conclusions of the judges as tabulated have their remedy. r OVE'S such a fool! On just the simplest fare A glance, a word, a trifling touch, Will feed his system much too much. Love's such a fool! He'll grow and thrive When all is o'er, And Fate hath clanged her leaden door - When Hope no shred of sustenance gives, On ghosts of joy the blockhead lives. Emma Carleton, They can consider, and declare, that the Hall of Fame and its records are of no consequence. But they can’t insist that this name shall go in or that one come out, and they cannot demand to get their money back. A Sure Thing. “7’VE got a great scheme to make money in Wall Street. All you’ve got to do is to buy when stocks are going up and sell when they are going down,” “But how are you going to tell whether they are going up or down?” “ Wait and see.” THE Boston T'ranscript upbraids Mr. Barrie for the degencration of Sentimental Tommy. It says to him: ‘This peanut doll you have hung on a fence never should, and never can be, confused with the old Tommy, tho endeared Tommy, the Tommy of flesh and blood and living soul.”” That is harsh, but it expresses the feclings of many rebellions readers. Is it just? Has Mr. Barrie done a good and warrantable literary job, or an unwarrantable one? That is what we would like to know. It would gratify a public that likes to see right prevail to have Thomas Sandys sue Mr. Barrie for defamation of character in the book called Tommy and Griz, and have a competent jury bring in a verdict. nisi COME Harvard explorers have found a \ cold mountain a mile high up in Lab- rador, and named it after President Eliot. Very well; but Dr. Eliot has warmed very noticeably in the last twenty years. comicbooks.com