Life — December 26, 1901 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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The Pulse of P. O. Wo are still unable to decide, in the office of 2 Lire, whether the Pulso of Public 2) Opinion is to prove a sympathetic caress or a dynamite bomb. One thing we have learned : that for continuity of,action and celerity of Y | jf, movement no weathor-cock can be compared > /\ _” toit, The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, \\ for instance, in its issue of December 5, 1497, informed its readers that Lire was “the cleverest, brightest, most gentle- manly and wittiest paper published any- AY where.” y \Y But Lire either went down hill at an g Ade Sy, appalling speed or something happened ZLB IC RSS, to tho Commercial Tribune's point of othe view, for on November 12, 1898, less than a year later, it mado this suggestion: “ Live should be taken by the scruff of tts dirty little neck and kicked into the most convenientsewer. It would be at home there.” Tho following extracts from letters to;the Editor may show how the “Pulse of P, 0.” has a way of beating at Thirty-fret Street. Theso letters were all inspired by the same issue of the paper: C. GRAY PARKER. drawings wero sufficiently bad, their faults were good, able- bodlod faults that hold up their heads and looked you in the eye. And the drawing of his figures, however bad, was “all there.” Thero wero no dodgings of diMcult portions; no tricks, and no uncertainty. There was no slurring of outlines. To be sure, his ladies, in consequence, wero often clad in boilor iron; and although ho and the Almighty, at that time, were holding diffor- ent views as to effects of light and shade, there were always cour- age and honesty in whatever he undertook. We had some talks together, and became good friends. He said bis name was Gib- son, and I still bellove ho told the truth, Of bis progress in his art, his long, swift etrides and bis present position, little can be sald that ia not already known to the great majority of our readers, For about fifteen years be and Lire have worked together, and in tho closest relations, Young men of promiso are plentiful. ‘Tho woods are full of them; also the open places. But raro indeed is the youth who not only makes | good his promise but goes so far abovo it as to rovolvo in an orbit of his own, Book Reviews. Tho withdrawal of Mr. Robert Bridges (Droch) deprived us of tho services of a valued member of our staff, and of one who was practically with us at tho start, During fifteon years—and critical years some of them were—his weekly colamn on ‘ books and literature was an important factor {n our success, f. W. KEMBLE. ROBERT BRIDGES. comicbooks.com