Life, 1901-12-02 · page 7 of 44
Life — December 2, 1901 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains: 1. **The Evening Post advertisement** — promoting a newspaper as "A Home Newspaper" with special appeal to women through fashion, home decoration, and needlework content. 2. **"Lazarre" book advertisement** — promoting a novel described as "The Best Novel of the Year," written by an American woman about an American king. The ad quotes positive reviews from *Chicago Tribune* and *Baltimore American*. 3. **Three Artistic Gift Books** — Harper & Brothers advertising three illustrated volumes: *Heroines of Fiction* by W.D. Howells, *Alice in Wonderland* (Peter Newell Edition), and *Confessions of a Caricaturist* by Harry Furniss. There is **no political satire or cartoon commentary** on this page — it is a standard period advertisement page featuring literary and periodical products aimed at educated, middle-class readers.
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HERE is no need to tell the regular reader of the Evening Post that it is a thorough newspaper, printing all the news that in- terests persons of intelligence. Besides the news service of the Associated Press, it has special correspondents in all important news centers. Its complete news service, combined with numerous special and exclusive features of general interest, makes it an eminently satisfactory newspaper. The Evening Post devotes considerable space to matters of interest to women. Its “Suggestions for the Household” and “Women and Their Work” cover a wide range of subjects that appeal to the wives and daughters of the household. The articles on Fashions, Art Needlework, Home Decorations, and kindred topics are particularly interesting. The high character of the Evening Post and the fact that nothing is ever printed in its columns which would offend the most pronounced moralist makes it essentially A Home Newspaper. Send for Sample Copy. THE EVENING POST, By Mail, 75c. a Month; $9 a Year. An American romance, by an American woman, and the Story of an American King, that's why the critics name The Best Novel of the Year. Of all the novels of the year “ Lazarre, the romance of an American King,” has the most engaging subject.—Chicago Tribune. Mary Hartwell Catherwood’s new romance, “Lazarre,” in the quality of recreating time and place, surpasses any romance that has yet been written by an American author.—Louss- ville Courter-Journal, A woman has written “the novel of the year” and it's “Lazarre.” This time it is a book which swings into popularity because of its literary merit.—Haltimore American, Broadway and Fulton Street, - NEW YORK. FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. Three Artistic Gift Books Heroines of Fiction by... W. D. HOWELLS ME: HOWELLS tells in a_per- sonal narrative way of the best known “heroines” in fiction, He gives in addition a critical estimate of the works, as a whole, of theauthors under consideration. The volumes are illustrated with seventy full-page drawings by Christy, Sterner, Keller, Tobin, Hutt, and others. Its difficult to imagine a more artistic or inter- esting gift. 2 vols. (in box), $3.75 net. Alice ing Wonderland The Peter Newell Edition <¢ .¢ se sexe N° other living artist could hav conceived this new “Ali Mr. Newell's pictures are just as whimsical and humorous as_ the text. Every page has unique color decorations, the volume is bound in Vellum with gold stamping, and there are Forty full-page drawings in tint by Peter Newell. It is not only a beautiful book—it is a work of art. Every collector, every library must have this new “ Alice.” (In box), $3.00 net. Confessions ofa Caricaturist by... HARRY FURNISS R. FURNISS is one of the best k nowncaricaturi nthe world. Here he tells his experiences with celebrities of all kinds, both here and abroad. There is one chapter on his acquaintance with the “ American Girl.” Allof it is told with inimita- ble humor. The volumes are printed on coated art paper and pictured with over 300 of the author's own drawings. 2 vols. Royal octavo, $10.00 net. Harper & Brothers *~ * New York comicbooks.com