Life — August 29, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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174 In Lovers’ Lane. N Lovers’ Lane I met two boys— One blind and armed with bow and darts ; ‘Theother calling, with much noise : “ Bring out to me your broken hearts! My name is Doctor Change.” said he, “And let Love injure all he may, T heal them with my remedy, The‘ Balm of Time,’ f Virginia B. Harrivon esh eve FRIEND of Lire sends us the fol- lowing, as evidence, doubtless, that nothing is too sacred to be jeered at. “The Latest Books.” (With apologtes to J. B. Kerfoot, and acknowledg- ments fo their authors.) “The Nose-Bleed and Other Poems,” by Beulah Blac give us a viv and livid pen-picture of life in East Saugus, Massachusetts, toward the end of the twenty-seventeenth century. The thrilli adventure of a mad sent out to refe tives in Chel of woe. I (The Makemill fe of the Flea,” by is a sprightly blending of pathos and bathos, calculated to appeal most strongly to the summer boarder, dur- ing dog-days. Edition de Luxe. (Dead, Dogg and Company. $25.00.) “On Kollarshandkuff's Island,” by Are- there U. and Marie A. Swipes, is a nt Petersburg in the just suited to the silly- sjourner at the mountains or contains Nihilism, nitro-glycerine and non- pronounceable names enough to put you to sleep in your hammock without the aid of The Old Ladies’ Home Journal, (Charles Scribbler’s Sous. $8.624.) "30's. “Soupcons and Other Sonnets,” by Helen Type-Ruyter, must be read over and over again to be thoroughly appreciated. Her sonnets entitled, “To a Turkish-Bath Towel” and ‘The Only Onion in the Soup,” both strike us as especially strong bits of lyrical writing, second only to her epic poem, “The Pig-Pen.”” (Herbert Cobblestone and Company. $9.98.) “Meet Me in the Subway,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson-Smythe is, as its title im- plies, likely to hold you fora while. It is a story of Greater Beanstown before the days of the Hellevated railroad and 11 o'clock blue-law against indiscriminate soda-drink- «LEP E « With an introduction by Edward W. (Mellin’s Publishing Company, 69e.) ing. Bool Philadelphia, “T’Hell With Tammany Hall,” by J. L. Sullivan-MeGuirk, again shows us his plu ugly power of portraying the li of a bygone golden age,"* nights were bold and bosses held their sway.” His new serap-book is a romance of the court of “Croker the First,” and while it differs little from the plot of the average chrc of the period, it certainly excels in the acterization. See? $19.98.) and spirits carelessness of its el (Hawker and Brothers. “What I Don't Know About Yac by Thomas W. Lawson-Pink. Luxe limited to one copy. Full calf, Copper covers. With 13 half-toned illustrations of the fast * Nodependence” (fast to her moor- ings) and the steam yacht and full-page frontispiece portrait of the author taken “before and ” the trial races. (Life Publishing Cc on de chemer,” DAY PUTTER: Her aunt has left a eighty thousand dollars to Sadie, on condition thatshemarries within a year. Dick Wit. TINGTON: The amount isn’t large cnongh. Herr Pouter + act, VARR YOU VAS, KATARINA® What Next? HAT British proclama- tion to the leaders of the fighting Boers is a new departure in modern ‘s warfare. Imagine the E Prussians saying to the French--or even the impossible Turk to the Greek : ‘* Unless you stop fight- ing by September 15th you shall be for- ever banished from your own country.”” For heavy-handed, frank brutality we recall no parallel in civilized war. But John Bull has no intention of being hampered by international customs. Morecontemptiblestill—if possible— is the announcement that the charge for maintenance of the Boer women and children now being maltreated into submission is to be taken from the estates of these banished leaders. 0, Jobn, John! 'Tis things like this that cause your vilest Yankee cousin to blush for the relationship. A Distressing Case. “ce V=ts de madder, Izzy?” “Tam in great troubles. Ve soldt a man a set of teeth mit a gold plate at four tollars down und two a veek. Und he hasn’t made de second payment.” “Vy ton’t you take de teeth avay from him?” “Vecan't. He's got lockjaw.” Old Saws Refiled. COTTON link, properly estab- lished, is ninefold economical. Longitudinal indeed must be that highway which hath no circumlo- cution. Dwellers in crystalline domiciles should refrain from the propulsion of irregularly shaped particles of granite formation. Habitants of ether, similarly plumed, gregariously assemble. get a . IF } W policeman to put out I had to the cook. Huspanp: Gone, is she ? “Oh, no, He proved to be her best fellow, and they’re both wait- ing for you in the back hall.”” comicbooks.com