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# "The Mistake of Mr. Bunker and His Subsequent Reform" This satirical cartoon depicts a man named Mr. Bunker in two scenarios. On the left, he stands as a golfer claiming that whiskey has improved his game. On the right, a snake guards eggs with the caption: "Those wretched golfers never will give us a chance to hatch those eggs." The joke critiques Bunker's supposed "reform"—his claim that alcohol enhances his golf performance. The cartoon implies his drinking hasn't actually reformed him at all; rather, it's made him dangerously reckless (threatening wildlife). The satire mocks both excessive drinking and the self-deception of those who rationalize their alcohol consumption as beneficial, a relevant topic during America's temperance movement era.
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*LIFE* THE MISTAKE OF MR, BUNKER ANO HIS SUBSEQUENT REFORM, Tie Empire of Business, by Andrew Carnegie, contains seventeen essays and addresses upon many subjects connected with the world of affairs. Mr. Carnegie knows what he is talking about and talks well, His book is interesting. (Doubleday, Page and Company.) The use of thick paper and large print has lent tothe translation A. Palacio Valdes, called é, the outward presence of a more serious work. It is a characteristic sketch of a panish fishing village by the author of The Fourth Estate, but it does not deserve the setting of a novel. (Brentano’s.) Josephine Dodge Daskam’s Madness of Philip and Other Tales of Childhood are as clever as they are varied, No one who rememb m of his own childhood can fail to respond to A Study in no one who has cussed the impishness of other children's od can fail to appreciate Philip, the demon-ridden. (Me- Clure, Phillips and Company. $1.50.) The way in which @ rather brainless young Parisian uses his pretended admiration for a notably virtuous woman as a blind for his intrigue with her friend, and is finally hoist by his own petard, is the subject of The Screen, by Paul Bourget. The story has not even the merit of being piquante. (J. F. Taylor and Company. $1.50.) Mark Everard is a romance by Knox Magee, which duplicates in an English setting under Charles I. the plot of Weyman's Under the Red Robe. It is trashy, but makes a good substitute for solitaire. (R.F. Fenno and Company. $1.50.) “THose WRETCHED GOLFENS ‘THose E68." The Black Cat Club, by James Corrothers, claims to be a pres- entation of negro humor and folk-lore. The club holds its jions on the South Clark Street ‘ Levee,” Chicago, and both humor and folk-lore are typical of the locali (Funk and Wagnalls Company. $1.00.) Dainty verses, like The Hothouse Violet toa Fair Woman, and clever bits of metrical bookishness make an attractive volume of Robert Bridges’s Bramble Brae, (Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.25.) J.B. Kerfoot, OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED, Henry ¥., one of the “Heroes of the Nations series, dealing with the great English King as the typical mediwval hero, By Charles L.. Kingsford. (G. P, Puinam’s Sons, $1.0.) Mrs. Seely's Cook-Book, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and daties. By Mra, L. Seely. (The Macmillan Company. $2.00.) When a Witch Ie Young. By * 4-19-69." (R. P. Fenno and Company, $1.50.) Biggs’ Bar, and other Klondike ballads. By Howard V. Satheriand, (Drexel Biddie, Philadelphia.) Our Literary Detuge, By Francis W. Halsey. Articles, critical and statistical, upon books and authors, present and past, (Doubleday, Page and Company. $1.25.) Cape Cod Ballads. By Joe Lincoln, Amusing verses, mostly tn Yankee Alalect, Illustrations by Kemble. (Albert Brandt, Trenton, N.J. $1.25.) William Hamilton Gibson. By John Coleman Adams. An interesting life of the artist-author in Mr. Adams's excellent style, (G. P. Putnam's Sons, $2.00.) Commonieealth or Empire, a Bystander's View. By Goldwin Smith. (The Macmillan Company.) HUTT PRRs comicbooks.com