Life, 1900-12-01 · page 7 of 44
Life — December 1, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This is primarily an **advertising and announcement page** rather than a satirical cartoon page. The upper section advertises **Harper & Brothers' holiday book releases** (circa 1900), listing titles like *Lorna Doone*, *She Stoops to Conquer*, and *Eleanor*—classic literature repackaged for gift-giving. The lower section announces **The Evening Post's "Review of the Century"** series (January 12, 1901), promoting approximately forty articles by prominent writers reviewing nineteenth-century progress in English literature, American literature, law, astronomy, religion, and railway development. The left sidebar contains **printer's advertisements** for The J.W. Pratt Company, emphasizing their color and halftone printing capabilities for *Life* magazine. There is **no political satire or cartoon content** visible on this page—it functions as a publishing industry promotional piece.
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Lorna Doone. By R. D. BLACKMORE. NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION. ‘The illustrations for this editi graphs by Clifton Johnson, who 1 Introduction. Crown 8vo. In Box, § © from_photo- She Stoops to Conquer. By OLIVER GOLDSMITH. NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION. one-volume edition is illustrated from wings and is delightfully bound in ‘green and gold. 31.50. Vesty of the Basins. By MRS. S. P. McL. GREENE. NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION. The photographs from which the illustrations for this edition are taken were made under the author's direction among the scenes described. In Box, $2.00. The Cloister and the Hearth. By CHARLES READE. A two-volume edition, with many drawings by Clifton Johnson. In Box, $4.00 FRANKLIN SQUARE, Mother Goose For Grown Ups. By GUY WETMORE CARRYL. “ Mother ily the best of Mr. Carryl’s many clever verses and Tilus- trated by Peter Newell and Gustave Verl $1.50. A collection of latter-day versions of hich are de FOURTH EDITION, The Idiot at Home. By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. This is the story of the amusing domestic ex- periences of the hero of ‘Coffee and Repartec.” Hustrated, $1.50. Whilomville Stories. By STEPHEN CRANE. Delightfully amusing tales of the American small Dox, whom Mr, Crane has pictured with wonderful i and fidelity. Mlustrated by Peter Newell, $1.50, Eleanor. By MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. This remarkable novel is pub plished in two editions —a regular one-volume edition and a spec! ‘ial two- volume illustrated edition. Two-vol. Edition, $3.00 ; one vol., $1.50. The Mantle of Elijah. By lz ZANGWILL, story. It does not er, but portrays the British statesman. Lucid Intervals. By E. S, MARTIN. A volume of delightfu ays in Mr. Martin's best. y vein. TI ject illustrated by Miss Stilwell and F. D. Steele. $1.50. A Bicycle of Cathay. By FRANK R. STOCKTON, Anew romance, detailing the amusing adventures of a young schoolm ron a summer tour awheel. Ilustrated by Orson Lowell, $1.50. EW YORK CITY. Ghe EVENING POST Review of the Century The J. W. Pratt Co. GENERAL PRINTERS, of Saturday, January 12, 1901, will contain a notable series of about forty articles by eminent writers, who will present a philo- sophic and historical review of the main aspects of the Nineteenth Century—a record of the wonder- ful progress of the world during the last one hundred years. < < Among the subjects treated will be English Literature Edmund Gosse Printing in the Nineteenth Century Theodore L. DeVinne American Literature Prof. W. P. Trent International Law Prof. John B. Moore Psychical Research of the Century Andrew Lang Progress of Astronomical Science Prof. Simon Netwcomb Evolution and Religious Conceptions Leslie Stephen Railway Development Pres. Arthur T. Hadley Transformations in the Orient W. E. Griffis Ghe EVENING POST of Netw York Daily. Three Cents. T | NEW YORK EVENING POST 52-68 DUANE ST., NEW YORK. PRINTERS OF... LIFE and LIFE’S PUBLICATIONS. CoLor AND HALFTONE WoRK A SPECIALTY. WE WANT THE PRINTING THAT YOU ARE PARTICULAR ABOUT. WE CAN 00 THE WORK THAT YOU HESITATE TO GIVE OTHER PRINTERS.