Life, 1900-12-01 · page 2 of 44
Life — December 1, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising, not political satire**. It contains book advertisements from publishers R.H. Russell and Dodd, Mead & Company, circa early 1900s. The two illustrated figures are **not political cartoons but decorative advertisements**: one shows a fashionably dressed woman (advertising Russell's books), the other depicts an elderly bearded man (advertising "Mr. Dooley's Philosophy" by F.P. Dunne). The page catalogs contemporary literature—novels, tales, and illustrated books—representing popular taste of the moment. Authors listed include Charles Dana Gibson and Edmond Rostand, indicating this reflects established literary culture rather than satirical commentary. There is **no apparent political satire or social commentary** on this page; it functions purely as a commercial publishing catalog.
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2000009000000OOOOO OO $0OOOOHO0OO00000000O000OHO00H0OO000OOOH 96 60000000000O R. H. RUSSELL NVITES attention to his NEW CATALOGUE, which will be mailed upon application. It is illustrated by Nicholson, Gi lbson, Wenzell, Parrish, Verbeck, Louis Rhead and others, and describes a list of exquisite books fairly representative of the taste and the fashion of the moment AMERICANS By CHARLES DANA GIBSON Mr. Gipson's ripest work, showing in its highest development his delightful humor and’ exqu isite skill. Price, $5.0 Edition de Luxe, 250 copies, each signed by Mr. GrBsox, together with a 5) framing. Price, $10.00— cial signed proof on Japan Paper, for Other Books by MR. GIBS Drawincs, Pictures OF Peorte, Peoris. or Dickens (Portfolio), SKETCHES AND CARTOONS, . Tue Epucation of Mx. Pirp, L’ AIGLON THE ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH Translated by Louis N. Parker from the French of Epmonp A Sumptuous Volume. ———— This play in ite Hogllsh version stands ont clean-ca ROsTAND. star, It is no exaggeration to aay that its peer."—Ecening Sun. R. H. RUSSELL, 9OO0O0OO000O0000OO0OOOOOOOOOOOO0O0000000 000000000 MR. DOOLEY’S PHILOSOPHY BY F. P. DUNNE ON $5.00 5.00 §.00 §.00 + Toucuinc upon all subjects, 5.00 great and small, with tare humor and acute analy- ——— THE BEST DOOLEY BOOK BY FAR, AND THE 8UC- CESS OF THE SEASON + PRICE, $1.50 New York $990H9-09OHO0HHO09HHH09HHHO0HHHH0HH5HHO09 Price, $1.50: it, tremendons, like one has to look back to Hamiet to find 3 West 29th Street, 00000000 DODD, MEAD & COPIPANY, 372 sth Ave., New York NOVELS AND TALES Paul Leicester Ford A Christmas Story. By the author of vith AMlastrations by H. c. Chrisy, Luous Malet The Gateless Barrier, By the author ot The Wages of Sia." s3mo, cloth Georg Ebers In the, Desert. By the author of * Carat’ ote. Translated by Mary J. Safford. “Amolia E. Barr The Maid of Maiden Lane. A to ‘+A, Bow of Orange Ribbon.”” ‘author of Remember the Alamo, eter, tsmo, loth, illustrated H. Seton Merriman By the author of * The Sowers,” “In Kedar’s Tents," etc. Wanted: A Match-Maker. “Hon, Peter Stirling,” etc. Margaret Armstrong. 8vo, cl nice Meredith,” decorations by $2.00 $1.90 12mo, $ 1.50 By the $1.30 The Iste of Unrest, mmo, cloth, illustrated $1.50 BELLES-LETTRES AND Elizabeth Barrett Browning Mire, Browning's Poems. Bound in full, flexible cloth. Decorated title-page and fronts piece in photogravure. 16mo. s volumes. Per volume . 1% Esther Singleton Wonders of Nature. Described by Gren Weitere, and Profusely Thastrated with views: . $2.00 from nature Shakespeare—Low As You Like It. With five full-page photogravure illustrations, and numerous drawings and decorations to accompany text, y Will . Low. 8vo, cloth zi $2.50 H. A. Guerber Three Preach Empresses. Dy the author of Stories of the Wagner Operas,” etc. et. Tomo, cloth, fully Mastrated. Probably = $2.50 Spenser Wilkinson Mario Corelli Tho, Master-Christlan. By the author of “The Sorrows of Satan,” “ Barabbas, Romance of Two Worlds,” et Paul Laurence Dunbar The Love of Landry. By the author of * Lyrics of Lowly Life.” r2mo, cloth . Harland—Terhune Dr. Dale, A Novel, By Marion Harland and Albert Payson Terhune. John Uri Lloyd Stringtown on the Pike. By the author of ** Etidorpha.”” A. J. Dawson Atrican Nights’ Bntertalament. “By the suthor of “Mere Sentiment,” etc Jane Barlow |= From the Land of the Shamrock. By the author of " Irish Idyls."" ramo, cloth, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Carolyn Wells—Oliver Herford Mustrated by Oliser Herford, ram, clots $0 $1.25 » samo, cloth $1.50 1amo, cloth, illustrated, $1.50 12m0, $1.39 $1.90 Idle Iayts. $1.59 Cc. F. Carter The Weddtog Day In Literature and Art. By C.F. Carter. Arthur Bartlett Maurice New, Verk ts Piction. By Arthr Bartlett Maurice. remo, cloth. Pully illustrated va . 1.59 Robert Browning Pippa Passes. With decorations and illustrations by Margaret Armstrong. 8vo, cloth, $1.50 Chester Holcombe The Real Chinese Question. By the author of “The Real Chinaman.” 12mo, cloth, $1.50 G. W. Steovens Glimpses of Three Nations, By the author of * With Kitchener to Khartoum.” etc,, $1.50 samo, cloth, fally as. $2.00 Chagters on War and Policy. By the military critic of the Loadon Morning Post, 12m0, jot : . + . . ¢ 7 . . . $3 90 Horace Annesley Vachell on the Pacific By the author of "The Procession of Lite," "A : 2.00 Life and ic Slope. Drama in Sunshine," etc. 8vo, cloth, fully illustrated The Lite of Lives; or, Parther Studies ja the rey ot Cortet.. By the ciathor of “Tee ‘Life of Christ,” etc., ete, 22mo, cloth 3.59 in Anna A. Chapt Masters of Music. By the author of The Story of the Rheingold." 12mo, illustrated, $1.59 COPYRIGHT FOR GAEAT BRITAIN BY JAMES WENOEREON UNDER THE ACY OF 1091. Comicbooks.com