Life, 1903-03-19 · page 6 of 22
Life — March 19, 1903 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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**Main Content:** This page is primarily a book review section titled "The Latest Books," with literary critiques of several works including Katherine Cecil Thurston's novel *The Circle* and James Albert Woodburn's historical text. **Visual Element:** The left side features "Life's Fashion Plates" - a golf-themed illustration showing a golfer mid-swing. This appears to be satirical commentary on golf as a fashionable leisure activity among the wealthy. **Bottom Cartoon:** A brief dialogue joke about the "Goldsathers" living in a "million-dollar marble palace" - likely satirizing the nouveau riche and their ostentatious displays of wealth. The page reflects Life magazine's typical content: literary criticism mixed with social satire targeting upper-class pretensions and consumer culture.
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LIFE'S FASHION PLATES, GOLP COSTUME—EXCLUSIVE PATTERN. apne Se STEN [KATHERINE CECIL lines at once artistically simple and strongly dramatic. ‘There t four characters fully developed, but they are drawn with breadth and sureness, enlist sy rst and hold interest to the end. iand Company. $1.50.) aphy of Nathaniel Hare- ssor George E. Woodberry, It is careful and sto the biography and ploddi totheanalysis. It utterly lacks the subtle with which, f instance, Si s materialized for us the spirit of George Eliot. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company. $1.10.) This is not a sentimental age, and one meets few stories based on sentiment which do not ring false—be the rift in ourselves or in the writer. That Dear Old Sword, a pretty child's story by Nettie Gray Dainger- field, is one of the exceptions. (Presby terian Committee of Publication, Rich- mond, Va.) The American Kepublic and Its Govern= “LIFE - ment, by James Albert Woodburn, is a work of decided importance and one which has been much needed. Of per- functory constitutional histories there are enough and to spare. And there is always Bryce. But the middle ground is unoccupied, and Mr. Woodburn fills it with a work of admirable quality. (G. P. Pu Historical romance for young begin- ners is supplied by Beulah Marie Dix ir A Little Captive Lad, a story of Crom- well’s time in England aud Holland. The story is very childish and the Jan- guage very grown up, but the young are precocious these days and may like it. (The Macmillan Company. $ Henry A. Shute's Real Diary of a Real Boy is a tag end of the Magic Carpet. Open its ps and, presto! 3 fall away and we are ten Don’t let us ask how much of it ute wrote in the ’60's and how much last year. Enough that it has the Magic Carpet's powers. (The Everett Press, Boston.) An edition of James Jeffrey Roche's amusing skit, er Majesty the King, Romance of the Harem, with illustra- tions by Oliver Herford, should find many new readers. The litle volume has the grave style of an Oriental manuscript, the plot of a comic opera, anda full share of wit withal. (A. HL. Russell. $1.50.) Hints to Golfers, by iblick,” attempts to give the Why of Golf methods as well as the Mow. It is semi-scientific in its treatment, and its theories and advice are elucidated by excellent diagrams. (Niblick, P. O. Box 1579, Boston.) . Brookfield’s Random Remi- a large, light, handsome book of light stories, The author is a son of the Mrs. Brookfield who was so great a friend of Thack- v. He was or. He says in the preface, m not aware that I have included in this volume anything of importance.” He has not, but he has made an unimportant, entertaining book that it is easier to read than to stop reading. Some of his stories are not quite advantageous to himself, but none of them is tedious. (Edward Arnold, London. Long: mans, Green and Company, New York.) J.B. Kerfoot, “MOO bad about the Goldslathers. They haven’t a home.” “ Where do they live?”” “In a million-dollar marble palace.” The First Janitor; wey tune, rout No CHILDREN ALLOWED IN THIS TREEL comicbooks.com