Life, 1901-05-23 · page 7 of 22
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# Analysis This page combines book reviews, theatrical advertising, and humorous dialogue. The main content includes: **Book Reviews** (top): Brief notices of novels like *The Delectable Mountains* and *The Eternal Quest*, typical of period literary criticism. **"National Theatre" Advertisement** (left): Promotes an upcoming production of *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*, using a caricatured figure in top hat with a demonic creature—visual shorthand for the novella's dual-nature theme. The "To Appear Shortly" framing suggests this was an advance promotion. **"The Hard Part" and "A Test"** (right): Satirical sketches about daily life—one mocking bachelor apartments on Fifth Avenue allegedly occupied by young men who've made fortunes in recent stock activity; another making a joke about yacht ownership and sobriety. The page reflects *Life* magazine's mix of literary commentary, theatrical promotion, and social satire aimed at educated urban readers.
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‘LDPE called The Delectable Mountains, There is a vividness and indi- viduality about them that is very attractive. (Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.) The Eternal Quest, by J. A. Steuart, is an old-fashioned novel in which the lovers go through trials and separation for three books and areunited, to live happy ever after, in the fourth. It will d a hammock at the seaside. (Dodd, Mead and Company. $1.50.) Mr. Hugh McHugh has perfect command of a large and varied vocabulary of slang. He is also decidedly witty. His little boo John Henry, will be enjoyed by any one with sporting proclivities and a sense of humor. (G. W. Dillingham Company.) J. B. Kerfoot. OTORMAN : That fellow fooled me that time. Conpuctor : How's that? “I thought he wanted to get on and I didn’t stop, but he didn’t want to get on.” NATION" THEATRE MISS CROW, OF THE OAK TREE FLATS, CULTIVATING LER VoIcR. The Hard Part. “ I =| AVE yon ever been perfectly happy?” “Yes, but I never knew it at the time.” (THERE is nothing impossible about the report that the site of the Stewart house on Fifth Avenue is to bo occupied by an enormous bachelor apartment house, to be filled by the messenger boys and hotel waiters who have accumulated large fortunes during the recent activity in stocks. In old times, when fortunes came by hard work and thrift, bachelor apartment houses did not exist. Every one of them ought to be compelled to take out a license, and a very high license at that. T is assumed, from the following words of C, E. Walton, M. D., that shades of difference still exist between schools of medicine : We occasionally hear It asked : “ Would tt be wise to establish a chair of hommopathy In an allopathic college? Let us answer this by asking: Would tt be wise to establish @ Protestant chatr tn a Catholic tnstitation? Would it bo wise to drill Democrats ina Republican camp? It ts Just as diMicult to gather Nga from thistles now as {t was nineteen centuries ago. Water and oll do not mix more readily now than formerly, and there 1s no place on earth for an emulsified homeopath. A triturated allopath might be spread over a greater surface, but he would be of no more use for medical progress than @ combination tablet, A Test. «(TV HAT a fine yacht, old man!" “Isn't she? Ienjoy her even when I’m sober.” comicbooks.com