Life — February 6, 1902 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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BAL POUORE. Dear Lady, through the dance's maze And tn the throng of powdered faces That would assume the pictured ways Of bygone times and olden places, Thy laughing eyes alone, upcast, Reanimate the sluggish fancy, Until the present seems the past, Changed by some subtle necromancy. Again I see the ribboned crooks, ‘The Trianon’s caprictous folly, The Watteau shepherd's pleading looks, (And understand his melancholy 1) The king who pinged the cburiish boor, The queen who aped the village poses, ‘The swatns who gave thelr gages amour In unfrequented garden closes. Bat though [ catch the light refrain Of mocking laugh, of witty sailles, Of twinkling feet that tread again, In masquerade, Arcadian valleys, Fuir Conjurer, ‘tis not enough For me to see the Past's procession : Town I want, without rebuff, ‘The Future, too, in my possession ! Margaret Ridgely Schott, in the Century Magazine, A vacant niche {n contemporary periodical Ilterature 1s filled by the Book Dooster, which 18 edited by * Mr. Criticus Flub-Dubve,” and published by “Josh, Gosh & Co.,” in Evanston, Il. Its purpose, as it 18 careful to inform the reader on {ts first page, 1s to “boost Looks our own and others,"* with the distinction that ‘the books published by Josh, Gosh & Co, will be boosted without reference to the number of pounds sold, while the pubitcations of other houses will be boosted only when they have passed the dead line, which ts fifty thousand pounds.” ‘The Look boosted {n this particular issue ts “ Faggots of Empire,” by Miss Bertha Bosh, “Miss Bosh,” we are told from the “Editor's Rocking Chair,” “18 only fifteen years old, but_1s extremely bright for her age. She tsa Chicago girl, and bas never traveled farther than Oconomowoc, which makes her literary feat all the more remarkable. For + Faggots of Empire’ isastory of the reign of Charlemagne, and the author betrays a singular acquaintance with the local color of those times." Indeed, her narrative “contains more facta than the histories.” Moreover : “The cloth used to binding the first edition would, 1f stretched end to end, reach from Chicago to Evanston, Placed side vy side the pages would reach from Chicago to Minneapolis, Smeared thinly, the ink used would cover four townships. Ten million cockroaches could subsist for six months on the binder's paste employed. Set up side by side, the individual letters in the text would reach from San Fran- clsco to the Hawaiian Islands, And the hot air employed in boosting the book woald float ten thousand balloons."* Another tnteresting Ilterary announcement 1s made to the effect that “Josh, Gosh & Co. have been appointed Weefl ern selling agents for the forthcoming book of Mr, F ‘Thompson-Seton (formerly Seton-Thompson), which fs to titled Cheap Thompsons I Have Known "The Book Pow ter \a replete with touching poems and thrilling sertals, «The Stovepipe of Navarre,” a blood-curdling * Romance Sword and Cloak,” by Miss Poeta Pants, quite puts tn te] shade all current Itterary efforts along the same Ilne. —Literary Digut, Iy England an officer was court-martialied for bety| drunk. His servant, who was an Irishman, was asked by ty Court whether bis master Was sober on the night when ty} Was stated to have been drunk, + Yes, sir,” the servant replied, “he was quite sober." «How do you kuow he was sober?" “ Because he asked me to call him early," Tula was a convincing answer, But one of the officers the court-martial, remembering that there was no eat parade on the following morning, asked the servant whx| reason his master gave for wishing to be called early. Wis out ® moment's hesitation the servant replted : “He sald he was the Queen of the May, alr. Tuat, of course, concluded the case, —The Candid Friend. “ AxyTurNo going on this evening?" “Yes; there's to be @ performance at the Athletic Gs: dens. A fellow will undertake to subdue un automobile the] has a record of having killed six men. He's to do It in oss] hour or forfett a thousand dollars,""—Chicago Tribune. pational } London, E. 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