Life — January 23, 1902 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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so sudden!" moderate means from “ canned life” in New York, and is sufficiently practical to appeal chiefly to those of like desires, (Doubleday, Page and Company. $1.50.) Other Famous Homes of Great Britain contains twelve well-illustrated articles de- scriptive of English country scats. It is one of the most effective of the “ gift books,” those delights of the Christmas shopper and the book agent. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) J. B. Kerfoot. OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. “Delphine and Other Poems." By J Adda Nichols. (The Whitaker and Ray Company, San Francisco, Cal, $1.00.) “Tho Liars,” un original comedy tn four acta, By Henry Arthur Jones, (The Macmillan Com- pany. 75c.) “The Colburn Prize,” a story of girls for girls, By Gabrielle E. Jackson, (J. F. Taylor and Com- pany, $1.00) “With Lead and Line Along Varying Shores."? A book of poems, By Charlee Henry Webbs @loughton, Minin and Company. $1.10.) Echoes from the roooth Number. From PurLapecrita: DDEARLIFE: Thy Faithful everywhere, Who love a cheerful Alkoran, Long turned their faces towards the East, Long heard thy mild muezzin call And offered thee their censers’ praise. Now a new era dawns, and now To all thy Faithful there has come The day of joy that they await Who watch for a millennium. From the Dial, Cuicaco: The issue of Lire for December 20th constitutes its one thousandth number, and pleasantly bespeaks the permanence and prosperity of this sprightly publication. Lireis something more than the best of our -LIFE- humorous weeklies ; on its serious side it is as fearless a power for truth and right thinking as we have in the periodical world to-day. From Grorota: Dear Lire; Your reminiscen- tial mood in the current (25th, I think) was exquisite. But you haven't a word to say for a free press, the while that pitiful slave of a Madden is making the stren- uous Teddy's administration ab- surd, But then it is so far below your ‘point of view " that you cannot be supposed to take note of the fact that the ‘‘bone to labor” —as Depew calls him— is doing his utmost to suppress “ideas.” Perhaps you haven't had the evidence. Well, it is plentiful, You are certainly old enough to know that an ounce of Justice is worth a ton of Charity, Yet you are “long” on Charity azd ‘short’ on Justice. You must be an 67 Episcopalian. They are so charitable. Did you ever hear Bob Toombs’s (of Jawgy, sah!) skiton the Episcopalians? He said that they were the happiest sect extant; that the two topics that absorbed the rest of humanity the Episcopalians didn’t care a d—n for—Politics and Religion. Well, I reckon you're filling a mission, Yours, A Reader, Macon, Ga., Dec. From Bostox : I had not supposed that the opinions of individuals concerning your paper had any interest for you, but I am rather glad to think that I may have been mistal In any case, your review of Lire’s history in its thousandth number encourages me to put forth my own opinion of the paper. I bought the first number, and the subse- quent numbers, too, whenever I was within reach of a news-stand. Lirg'may be a better journal than it was; I presume it is better ; but certainly I have never read it in these later years with thesame keen relish a8 when Lire was newandI was young. Lure BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA, “TAKE YOUR CHOICE? EITHER WALK THIS PLANK, OR PIOURE AS THE NEROOP AN AMERICAN HISTORICAL NOVEL." comicbooks.com