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110 Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previously acknowledged... J LK KOH : Fingers ‘and Conipany...: See Entertatament — two little gtris from Hokokus... 8s Boe gl ssssessssssese sese SE BAL ccstsenceeses 1a memory of “Jack, W.3.5. MM. anda. ti M. Helen and Elizabeth B, B. Larsen. W.M.T.. rrSens ! e 8 LETTERS FROM LIFE‘S FARM, IeLY 12, 1902, Dean Ma, Please send me a pants and waist so that I.can where it home and Sc to buy postais & bow ts all the folks at home and meet me wt 42nd. St. Be -LIFE- poster advertised literature the to the “largest glass of beer in the city for Se. Frederick 8. Isham's story of wandering Thespians in the West and South of 1840, The Strollers, would be far more readable divested of the padding which brings it up to standard three- volume length. (The Bowen- Merrill Company, Indianapolis $1.50.) correspond were it Under the guise of an autobio- graphical chat by a literary woman, Adelaide I. constructed a charmingly i formal story in Under My Oven Roof. The narrative is amusing and so apparently frank and unaficeted, that only here and there is one reminded Rouse A s0NG- there at 9.19 o'clock because we will arrive at thattime lam good and fat and send @ kiss to every one I xend my best love to all From Grorge Tell Joes ma she shonld send him 10c BRaXcovitte LivesParst Coxn, Dean Mornen. Ireceived sour most welcome letter and was giad to hear from you, 1am good and fat and [ AM gesug my Moneys worth. Ma we had ® water-melon party and all the children eat itlike negroes. Ma, 1 do not want you to meet me because { do ‘not want to givé you any troable and I will be home about eleven o'clock and my shoes are all torn and the soles are ail off them, We had @ concert und got $4.00 and that's how we came to have ® water.melon party. Write before Wednesday, and bere ts s tiger Illy for you and send love and Kisses toall, Witte. (CTHE LATEST BOOKS S83) a? 2 aS —— T is difficult to find the reason for the three-volume-novel habit lately acquired by authors and publishers. Possibly in these days of guessing contest romances and that it is presumably fiction, Among the lighter books of the season it is one of the most satisfactory. (Fank and Wagnalls Company. $1.20.) If you are a lover of golf, if, let us say, an occasional round by yourself with three sticks and no caddie means good exercise and pleasant company, by all means read William Garrott Brown's little essay, Golf. It is graceful and scholarly, and contains more thoughts than pages. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 50 cents.) William Stearns Davis, author of A Friend of Cesar, has gone a few thousand years further back for his next book, Bel- shazar, The fall of Babylon certainly fur- nishes a heroic foundation for a romance, and Mr. Davis has introduced into his superstructure enough resemblance to the customs of the modern East to make his story more convincing than the majority of its kind. (Doubleday, Page and Company. $1.50.) = AN ARTIST. “OH, MICKY, WHEN You cuss LIKE THAT I COULD LISTEN TO YoU POREVER Mra. Crow: JAMES, WAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TO THINK WHAT WILL BECOME OP US WHEN WE Ane ou? Mr. Crow: ow! 1 svProse we'tt WIND UP as QUAIL ON TOAST AT SOME TABLE D'HOTR Res TAURANT. Salmon and Trout, a volume of The American Sportsman's Library, contains an article upon the Atlantic salmon by Dean Sage, and sections upon the Pacific salmon and the various salmon and char trouts of America by C. H. Townsend, H. M. Smith and William C. Harris, It is a book which the most expert fisherman may read with pleasure and profit. (The Macmillan Com- pany. $2.00.) J. B. Kerfoot. ey comicbooks.com