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# Content Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical commentary. It showcases four notable holiday books from publisher Dodd, Mead & Co.: 1. "Wanted: A Matchmaker" by Paul Leicester Ford 2. "As You Like It" illustrated by Will H. Low 3. "Wonders of Nature" edited by Esther Singleton 4. "Pippa Passes" by Robert Browning The bottom half promotes a **Gibson Girl drawing giveaway**—a signed C.D. Gibson portrait available to new Life magazine subscribers. Gibson Girls were iconic illustrations of idealized American femininity popular in the early 1900s. There is no political satire present. This represents Life magazine's dual function as both satirical publication and advertising vehicle for contemporary cultural products.

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TET Pleye FOUR NOTABLE== =——=HOLIDAY BOOKS Wanted: 2 NS A Christmas Sto Lit ry. By A Matchmaker Paul Leicester Ford, author cf ‘Janice Mere- dith,” ‘Hon. Peter Stirling,” etc. With illustrations by H. C. Christy, and decorations by Margaret Armstrong. 8vo, cloth, $2.00. This is a new story written for the Christmas of 1900. H.C. Cristy. w rations and of the book. It $s fully Mustrated by ng to rival Gibson's as an iliusirator, The deco- iss Armstrong. and are in harmony with the spirit It should prove the most pupular Christmas present of the season. It By William Shakes- As You Like Pearce. With five full-page photogravure illustrations, and numerous drawings and decorations to accompany the text, by Will H. Low. 8vo, cloth, $2.50. lustrations for Mr. Mabie’s “The Forest of 1, in rather an ebvious way, the treatment by the same * Toe result is a book similar in appearance to serious Illustrat noteworthy result. Also LARGE PAPER EDITION, limited to 200 cop tifully printed and bound, $15.00 net. Purchasers of this edition will receive an extra set paper, with gold borders, in an envelope, make'a beautiful holiday present. AI © and considerably fuller and more Ne This combination of text and it lustration has produced a most ies, beau- of th Wustrations. on Japan ‘These are very table tor framing, aud DODD, MEAD @ CO. FREE! THIS 18 NOT THE PICTURE You WILL RECEIVE. TUS MERELY GIVES AN IDEA OF THE WIDOW. Cataloga: by J 10 examples of proofe in miniature Hanna, Gilbert and others, for selection, sent on receipt of cents. Described by Great Writers Wonders of Xe and profusely illustrated Nature Ng Xg with views from nature. Edited by Esther Singleton. 8vo, cloth, $2.00, The novel idea which Miss Singleton introduced tn her ‘Turrets, Towers and Temples" and “Great lictures" bas here been further developed, From the creat writers have been selected cescriptiors of the most wonderful scenes in nature, and the descriptions are accumpanied with illustrations beautifully executed from photo. graphs. By Robert Browning. Pippa Passes With decorations and illus- trations by Margaret Armstrong. 8vo, cloth, $1.50. ‘This is one of the most widely quoted and perbaps the best known of Robert Browning's locger poems. It ts quite time that there ould appear an illustrated edition wertby of the poem and of the poet. , 272 Fifth Ave., New York CORNER 38th STREET A SIGNED GIBSON DRAWING! HEAD of Ginson's Most Bewitching Girl muy be yours for nothing. Each proof signed personally by C. D. Gibson, matted and ready for framing, 1 inches by 11 inches in size, on Japan paper. We show her etch of the beautiful heroine of Mr. Gibson's new scries of cartoons, “A Wipow axp Her Frienps,”? Mr. Gibson's latest and most important work, which is now appearing in Lire. The portrait is much larger and shows her full fi You can secure the signed portrait only by sending $5.00 for a new subscription to Lire for one year. The drawing will not be sold or reprinted. It is for the exclusive ‘ownership of our subscribers. At the expiration of this offer the plate will be destroyed. New subscribers will receive for five dollars a r’s subscription to Lire and the signed por- trait which you can get in no other way, also all the copies of Lire in which cartoons of “The Widow” series hare already appeared. This offer is net. Lr PUBLISHING Co., 19 West 81st St., N. Y.