Life, 1901-05-23 · page 6 of 22
Life — May 23, 1901 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 432 This page contains **book reviews** rather than political cartoons. The main content discusses five recent novels, including works by Alfred Dreyfus and Gertrude Potter Daniels. The illustrations are **humorous domestic scenes** unrelated to the book reviews. The bottom-left shows two caricatured figures (appearing to be minstrel-style characters) discussing fabric patterns for trousers—a joke about fashion disagreement. The right-side drawings depict a person interacting with an ostrich in various comedic situations, with the caption "don't you know an ostrich when he's hiding?" This appears to be a visual gag about the ostrich's famously long neck being obvious despite attempts at concealment. These illustrations are likely filler humor typical of Life's satirical format, not commentary on current events.
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to be taken up with eager interest and aid down with acertain disappointment. ‘The book, indced, was not written for us, bat for his doubting countrymen. His experiences are touched upon only in passing, while to the correspondence between himself and his wife, by which he hopes to show his clear conscience, iven more than half the book. It is, however, a harrowing ire and an arraignment of France all the more terrible for its apparent unconsciousness. (McClure, Phillips and Company.) The Story of Eva, by Will Payne, closely resembles in theme a hook we mentioned some time since called Sister Carrie, Both treat of country girls thrown upon their own resources in Chicago. The resemblance stops there, howeve Mr. e's book, while not recommended for the libraries of the K 's Daughters, is an in- teresting story well told. (Houghton, Miflin and Company. $1.50.) The fourth of Harper's series of stories of American life is a New y novel called A Victim of Circumstances. It is long, prosy and dull, but affords the reader good mental exercise in trying to remember who is who among the characters, (ITarper and Brothers, $1.50.) The Warners, by Gertrude Potter Daniels, traces the career of a luborer, who, after winning an independence, is crushed by the power of the trusts, We would like to suggest to Mrs. Daniels that the book would be just as convincing and in fur better taste were enths of the profanity omitted, (Jamieson-Higgins Company, Chicago.) Some good short stories, mostly of the author's life as a be Northern Peunsylvania, are told by Arthur Colton in a volume “NOW, JONN, WILL YOU MATCH THIS PIECE OP CLOTH POR MF WHEN You Go out!” “VM APRAID TCAN'T, DEAR. THE MAN f GOT THAT OF NAD TO. BUY A NEW PAIR OF TROUSERS, AND UE GOT AN ENTIRELY DIPPERENT PATTERN,” “WHAT A BLOOMIN’, RIDICULOUS PLANT. AND, BY JOVE, WHAT TOUGH BRANCHES!" The Mant: DON'T YOU KNOW AN OSTRICH WHEN HE'S UIDING? comicbooks.com