Life — August 21, 1902 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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«LIFE « Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall. Now appears Mr. Henry Hastings’s Mistress Dorothy of Haddon Hall. We are patient and long-suffering, but really this is rubbing itin. One version of each historical romance is all that human nature can stand. Mr. Hastings’s story, by the way, ig extremely wishy-washy, (I. F. Fenno and Com- pany. $1.00.) * James Eugene Farmer, in writing Brinton Etiot Srom Yale to Yorktown, has given us one of the best American romances of the Revolutionary period. His picture of Yale College between 1770 and 1774 is really remarkable, and should stand as an ideal of literary reincarnations, (The Macmillan Company $1.50.) Unstable as Water, by Mrs. J. H. Needell, is a yarn of the Bertha Clay order. Intrinsically it is as good as much current fiction, but common or garden fic- tion, to be readable, must bear the hall-mark of the moment, and Unstable as Water is like day-before yesterday's paper. (Frederick Warne and Com- pany. $1.25.) The early crop of short stories was a failure this year, but we are doing better now. Tanson's Folly contains four tales by rd Harding Davis—an army story, a dog story, a detective story, and a newspaper story of the Spanish-American war. A decidedly rtment. Jn the Fog, the ample, is especially amus- ing. (Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.) World's People, again, is a collection of sketches by Julien Gordon, which chiefly concerns itself with American society abroad. They are cynical but clever, as is to be expected from Mrs. Cruger’s pen, and form amusing studies of the unadmirable types of fashionable life. (J. F. Tay- lor and Company. $1.50.) Finally, to keep up the unavoidable average of good and bad in current publications, we have Welsh Rarebit Tale, by Harle Oren Cummings, which claim to have been written under the influence of rashly chosen midnight suppers, and fully justify their origin (The Mutual Book Company, Boston.) J.B, Kerfoot. TTENDANT (at insane asylum): be innately cruel. This man seems to + For atime, he thought he was Nero. Visitor : What is he now? “Oh, now he thinks he's the band on an excursion steamboat.”’ A STUDY IN HEARTS. AT SIXTEEN, TWENTY. THIRTY. VVY Chaste (Chased) Love. [FT could draw a picture + Ilustrative of this— it would not be a maiden Receiving her first kiss. But a terror-stricken Cupid Fleeing wildly through the town, And a very aged spinster Trying hard to run him down. 1.4. B. Business. WO youths stood together at the threshold of life. «I shall first become consecrated,” said one, ‘‘after which I shall amass two hundred millions."* But when he had become conse- crated, he found it very difficult to buckle down toanything serious. “T shall amass my two hundred millions at once," said the other youth, and did not become consecrated until late in life when he was naturally more moderate. Moral: Business before pleasure. Wide. ** TQAPA, what is the dif- ~ ference between the Smart Set and the Four Hundred?” “Why, my son, the Four Hundred is limited to two thousand six hundred, but everybody is in the Smart Set." rorty. \s comicbooks.com