Life — April 2, 1903 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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The Devils ny one Whitmanically Put. DO not ordinarily swear ; I do not stiffen myself and think up double distilled double dashes wherewith to embellish my remarks ; Ido not spout forth lurid elo- quence upon ordinary occasions. Profanity has small place with me. 3ut when I hear the rattle of the twenty-dollar-per-ton coal as the nt driver dumps the short- ight wagon before my door ; When I hear the meat bandit pre- senting his bill in the kitchen ; When I hear the grocery pi ing for his money at the hall do When I hear the gas-meter ing its dolefal melody in the base- ment ; When I hear my taxes and my and my water Dill adding themselves te ask- sing: ent up; When I hear and see all these and many other things—— And note that the wife of my bosom is reading an advertisement with a face suffused with joy ; When she turns tome and murmurs something concerning an Easter bon- net—— Then do I search the bright lexicon of youthful memory for all the com- pound hyphenated cuss words I ever knew, And use them to express my opinion of the practice of reaching into the future for troubles That may be piled upon troubles that are trampling upon my heels from the past ! Yea, then do I swear in a beautiful manner ! W e, it would seem that she ** has arrived” Humphry Ward’s past works m in her novel just completed and published, Lady Rose's Daughter, 1 is worse th Itis next to impossible to judge current literature other- wise than relatively and subject to the color ss to make prophecies, contrasts of its surroundings, but ce in the their contemporaries Mrs. Ward's latest charac the ere w master, (Harper and Broth- company rs seem ers. $1.50.) Descending from the realms of literature to the plane of ephemeral fiction, we have a une novelty and interestin The Tar y of North Carolina, by Mrs, Mabell Clarke Pelton. The scene is near Asheville, and both the characters and ning. (J. 1. Lippit= hia. $1.50.) Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice are both to be congratulated ¢ nd the public the rather of the Cabbage Patch has not given rise to a Mrs. Rice is thus enabled to glean the field she has alrendy reaped with a sequel called Lovey Mary, and we have been spared what might have been a verituble affliction, (The Century Company. $1.00.) “school.” A very attractive volume for young read- ers is The Book of Romance, edited by drew Lang and illustrated by Hen It contains versions of the legends of the Round Table, of Roland, Diarmid, Robin Hood and others, all but one being done comicbooks.com