Life — January 24, 1901 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Jones: Life’s Beauty Contest. TH announcement of the winner of Lire’s Beauty Contest will be made in the issue of Lire of February 7th, or two weeks from tho date of the present issue. Many thousands -f replies have been received, and the task of counting, tabulating and arriv- ing at an accurate result requires a number of days for its satisfactory accomplishment. RAG TIME. OW that we have successfully IN © changed Centaries, we shall doubtless, for some time, be treated toa literary regimen of résumés. Virginia Tatnall Peacock offers her quota in Famous American Belles of the Nine- teenth Century, This book contains the biographies of eighteen selected Belles, and its style is decidedly encyclopedic. (J. B. Lippincott.) One of the best of the many recent books relating to the Orient is An American Engineer in China, by Will- iam Barclay Parsons. Mr. Parsons was Chief Engineer of the survey for the projected railway between Canton and Hankow. He traversed a hitherto unexplored Province, was thrown into close relations with all grades of Chinese officialdom, and writes most entertainingly of his observations. (McClure, Phillips and Company.) A book that must needs attract un- usual attention is An English Woman's Lore- Letters, Their exquisite beauty and their unspeakable sadness would ensure this without the mystery of their authorship. Many will be the tears that fall upon their pages. (Doubleday, Page and Company.) In reading The Frigate Constitution, by Ira N. Hollis, one is constantly tempted to ‘‘ move the previous ques- tion.’’ Indeed, the author has treated his subject in so diffuse a manner, WELL, IT'S NO USE TALKING} YOU MUST ADVERTISE TO ATTRACT ATTENTION. that the book is a poor account of the old navy rather than a good history of the frigate whose name it bears. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) Devil Tales, by Virginia Frazer Boyle, is a collection of stories of darky super- stitions. They will please readers interested in old plantation folk-lore ; others would best leave them alone. The book is excellently illustrated by A. B. Frost. (Harper and Brothers.) Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler has writ- ten a book of short stories called Cupid’s Garden, A preface explains at some length the nature of the Short Story and Mrs. Fowler's qualifications asa writer of them. We confess that without this guide we should have thought the author's forte lay in other fields. (D. Appleton and Company.) A simple and fairly attractive little tale of a bright baby and its influence upon its village world is told by H. A. Keays in Little Lords of Creation. There are passages, however (when the child’s clever sayings are coming pretty fast), when the reader feels as though afond parent had him tightly by the buttonhole. (Herbert S. Stone and Company.) J.B. Kerfoot. The New Catechism. “ W HO made the world, Charles?” “God made the world in 4004 B.C., but it was reorganized in 1901 by James J. Hill, J. Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.” comicbooks.com