Life, 1903-05-14 · page 6 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 442 This page reviews new books rather than presenting political satire. The three illustrated panels on the right appear to be whimsical drawings accompanying book reviews, showing figures with globes and maps—likely illustrating stories involving geography or world themes. The text discusses several novels including James Harvey Robinson's *History of Western Europe*, Elsworth Lawson's *From the Unsarring Soil* (a Northumbrian parish love story), and works by Guy Wetmore Carryl and J. Aubrey Tyson involving political utopias and historical fiction about Aaron Burr and Washington. At the bottom, "A Discovery" presents a brief humorous anecdote about a child finding a doll stuffed with breakfast food—a light joke rather than political commentary. This is primarily a literary review section with accompanying illustrations.
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-LIFE- IN LIFE'S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. TPE change of front effected during the past twenty years, at once in the spirit of scholarship and in the methods of in- straction, is exemplified in the elementary History of Western Europe, just published by James Harvey Robinson, The with- drawal of emphasis from battle details at shop-worn personal anecdotes and its a plication to causal influences and far-re ing effects in the historic plot is but one in- dex of the broader view and saner purpose of the new way. (Ginn and Company, Boston.) Mr. Elsworth Lawson's love story of a young clergyman in a Northumbrian parish of thirty years ago, called From the Unvary- ing Star, is an unusual combination of matter and manner. ‘The plot is the plot of a melodrama, The manner of its pre tion is quiet, reminiscent and attractiv The hand is the hand of Esau, but the voice is Jacob's voic The result is de- cidedly pleasant. (The Macmillan Com- pany. $1.50.) The solving of a Washington family mystery, a suicide-marder affair with a faint family resemblance to The Law and the Lady, furnishes the action of Anna Katherine Green's new detective story, The “iligree Ball. The story is rather better than Mrs, Rolphs's average, although her work is always superficial. (The Bobbs- Merrill Company, Indianapolis. $1.50.) An exceedingly readable story is told by Guy Wetmore Carry] in The Lieutenant Governor, The politics described are not of this world, and the state government of Alleghenia is amusingly Utopian, but the story takes hold at the beginning and only lets go atthe end. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company. $1.50.) Once more the funeral baked meats of the American Revolution are made to furnish forth a wedding feast of historical romance The courtship of Aaron Burr and Mrs, Theodosia Prevost is the subject of Stirrup Cup, by J. Aubrey Tyson, and spite of the inevitable introduction of Washington, André and an anacronism or two, it is a very lively little story. (D. Appleton and Company. $1.25.) J.B, Kerfoot. A Discovery. OUNG DOROTHY: Oh, mamma! Look at my doll! Why, it is stuffed with breakfast food ! comicbooks.com