Life, 1900-12-01 · page 8 of 44
Life — December 1, 1900 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Scribner's Magazine Advertisement (1901) This is primarily a **promotional page** announcing Scribner's Magazine content for 1901, not a satirical cartoon. It features portrait photographs of contributing writers and illustrators positioned around text describing upcoming articles. The page highlights **literary and military content**: General Francis V. Greene's articles on the American Army; Henry Norman's series on Russia; and stories by established authors like Theodore Roosevelt, Kate Douglas Wiggin, and Walter A. Wyckoff. Notable is the **geopolitical focus**—Russia and China features suggest contemporary imperial interests during the Boxer Rebellion era. The page functions as editorial advertising, showcasing the magazine's prestigious contributors to attract subscribers at $1.00 yearly. No satire is evident; this is straightforward magazine promotion.
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“LIFE SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE THE REGULAR ARMY, by GEN. FRANCIS V. GREENE. Few invented stories of ad- heroism or more incidents of thrilling x interest than the actual history GEN, FRANC hundred years of its existence. It is a story that has long needed telling, and a better narrator could hardly be found than General Greene, one of the army's foremost representa- The story will be covered in several articles, and it will be richly illustrated by F. C. Yohn, H. C. Christy, and others especially fitted for the work. MRS. GILBERT’S STAGE REMINISCENCES. Mr. Daly, James Lewis and many other figures of f ¢ : i f * taining pages, while of the older leaders there is a fund of anecdote. ‘The articles the most vivacious and interesting of their ,. kind, and will contain a wealth of illustrations. ’ WALTER A. WYCKOFF, author of ‘ The s,’’ will have several new articles in the same field, giving an account of “*A Day With a Tramp,” «Onan Iowa Farm”? and other experiences. THEODORE ROOSEVELT will, from time to time during 1901, contribute to Scribner's articles on public topics. KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN, in ** ‘The Diary of a Goose Girl,’’ has written the most charming Hof her stories, and it will appear in Scribner's in three parts, with very attractive illustrations, NEW STORIES OF THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN. series of Cracksman stories, by E. W ingenuity in plot and thrilling interest. The in- comparable Raffles is reintroduced to his many reader admirers in a wonderful succession of adventures and hair-breadth escapes. ‘The stories will be illustrated. SHORTER FICTION. ERNEST SETON-THOMPSON will contribute several of his charming animal stories, illustrated by him- self; there will also be short stories by Octave Thanet, Frank R. Stockton, Henry James, Thomas Nelson P. J imson, Henry van : Couch, and other well-known writers. W. A. Wyckoit A new Quiller- ’. Hornung, of baffling venture contain more deeds of personal | be continued. of the | comments on present conditions in Russia RUSSIA OF TO-DAY, by HENRY NORMAN, M.P. ‘This notable and timely series of articles, begun in October, will hey are the result of a journey and investigations made especially on behalf of Seriéner's, and Mr. Norman's HENRY NORMAN, MP. and her probable future are made in the light of the latest events. ‘The many illustrations from the author's photographs and other sources are a noteworthy feature of the articles. | Reduce of thtustration from mecure™ EVENTS IN CHINA AND THE EAST will be covered in articles by special correspond- ents. J.M. BARRIE’S NEW STORY. ‘The magazine will later in the year make an important announcement concerning a new story by J. M. Barrie. THE SOUTHERN MOUNT- AINEER, by JOHN FOX, Jr. Several articles in the early part of 1901 will portray his romantic and fast-diminishing type of American character. Mr. Fox knows his subject by experience and special observation, and illustrates his articles from photographs. NEW YORK LIFE AND SCENES. Thestudies of > New York, which have proved so attractive in the maga- | zine, are to be resumed at intervals during the year. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS will contrib- | ute several articles and stories, the first, to appear during A! the winter, being a travel sketch ina new field to him and one of the best of his vivid narratives. ART FEATURES will include, beside the notable illustrations for «* The Regular Army ”’ and other pictorial plans of special importance, noteworthy papers {§ on art subjects by John La Farge, W. C. Brownell, and other distinguished writers, while the Field of Art will continue to be the most important critical depart- ment of its kind, edited by Mr. Russell Sturgis, and contributed to by leading authorities in art matters. A list of the illustrators for next year in- cludes Walter Appleton Clark, F. C. Yohn, H. C. Christy, Maxfield Parrish, Heni McCarter, A. I. Keller, A. B. Frost, E. C. Peixotto, W. Glackens, Henry Hutt, and many others. There will be new and original schemes of illustration in colors as well as in black and white, and colored covers. JM. Barrie rear hs vip Bah Ba PPS Rho PE oath The prospectus for 1901, a twenty-four page illustrated booklet printed in colors, will be sent free to any address on application. SUBSCRITTION PRICE, $3.00 A YEAR, POSTAGE PREPAID, 25 CTS, A NUMBER SONS, 153-157 FIFTIL AVENUE, NEW YORK EW, Hormang, si RE Ae te SOG EE TREES SOE