Life — June 4, 1903 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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Dr. what you good morning, Brown; ge I know you want a book for Mrs comfortable kind of a story that will amuse prning want; Brown—a nice, her without being too exciting. And here's IVs called The Filigree Ball, it's a detective but not Not the kin nd on end when you read it Oh, 1. ven couldn't And yet hasn't struck twelve story ry sort to make your eyes st And yet i Anna Katherine ( mysterious, too be anything but myste know, Dr. Brown, sir in this story Not that I'd go back Far f t worth Case Du a Katherine Leacen- tell I know Aw I've read her from Oh, ig about her books ; on you can't me anytl heart. » by I s‘pose I have read every one half s. Aud so has Mrs. as big a goose over detective stories as lam, Aud VIL never 5 kon Anna K. Green She's the only woman—and [ don't: know but the a det Brown ly man—who knows how to build ctive story properly san architect, she is; she doesn’t he builds. And if her stories don't always ring true, why— there are h things than truth, that’s all But still, there's something lacking in The Filigree Ball, and I don't know myself just what it is cal color and the catchwords are all right, but, me of those to Mr. Wiseac still a great book be tell Mrs. picture, because it shows the | again, that she wore black broadcloth when she died What? Why, and here's just the Went to College. haps sometimes say Sit isn't convineis it's Lyon Brown not to lo first in a white dre: sand the says, over and over Oh, yes, sie; somethi 3, of course, that's ¢ Now, that’s as niec pretty a book as any one would wish to se Patty ch—excuse mn a pe sir—Tm an awful nice heroine. sweet, little college girl, and the trick « she doesn’t play aren't worth playing. She's awfully of course, but she'll grow up to wear the slippers of Anthony Hope's Dolly, if I'm not mistaken, You take this book to Mrs tell her to read the chapter about The D. youn, Brown and hop Girl. erased Re t first, and th it will be beeau nif she doesn’t 2 she isn't ng, and she read all the rest a woman, and she never was ye doesn't know fun when she sees it. The young woman who wrote that Patty book can’t get away from her youth yet, but she will; and though I'm free to confess 1 don't care much for petticoats in literature, s the sort that won't be downed but sh ended from the Dictionary, or United History, T¢ w. here's another be he like this. It's ¢ and it’s a fool book her name is, whether nt know, vk, and Mrs. Brown Ned Under the Rose, vo, L don’t mean it’s fooli abook about fi dwarfs, you know v5 but it's motleys and jesters and ‘The whole book is just jc of cap-and-bells, a crash of tank- ind a hobuobbing 1 princesses of some old w what number, They lyn of the tin and drink the rest of it d glasses, court- nd dukes century—I don’t kn sing hoddy-doddy-nos and dar Ob, yes, there's a story tucked away in it ewhere, but you ean searcely find it ong the other festivi The be Kaster-ex! lik ndied re What? You de would like anything i. id lady her The Four They a an awtul Ie k has pictures, too. colored with dyes, and the whole book tastes aves “t thin! » frothy? Lknow. 8 That's tthe fou Mrs. Brown Well, you take Feathers in interest- feathers are an th just to tell al more heroic 5 but it’s ory ut four helieve it wa ade I wish I had read the I then [wouldn't have had little bits of rs. sn out of a short story short st to read th What! None of the you are ory, a hard to That is, y Ithink she’ vem to her. Ll say! Here's the very thing—The Kd to like this and killing, and melodra ammatic, and picturesque, everything that most folks lik: The heroine is original, too ed type, but a real liv ind be smiled at brisk as a sea breeze, and the hero Mrs. For like any of these if or rather Brown she is. y part you'd tak Oh, Curele. w she’s it's thrilling, tie, and ¢ und no hack- irl—made to It's is great. pall take And here's 2 it? All right, Dr. Brown. book that you must have for yourself. You'll just love it, It’s called Horses Nine, and it's about nine horses. ‘They're short stories, but you might just as well call them pictures, fe horses are drawn with words just as plainly artist could do them with a brush those nine as au You can't sit still whil You feel as if you must rush out and jump de ‘way out into the country, where you can tell him what hink of him, ‘IL take this book too? You won't be sorry. Good morning—but, oh, wait a minute! Dr. Brown, here’s the best book of all. I've been saving it till the last. Wee Macgreegor it is, and it’s right up among the best of all the kid stories in the you read those stories a horse and Good for worl It’s Scotch, and my, but it is Scotch! p-and-water about its di you can understand it. ‘There's a glossary, but don’t bother ut that; just read right and the sense somehow comes to you, use it can’t help it, is the dearest thing ever; and the boaniest ever realized the fifteen e No ject—and yet alon: the father and mother are couple tha forts matrimony Oh, it's a book you can't describe, but everything worth while is in it, tucked away under the Seoteh. You'll take it? What! You'lltakeall of 2 And shall [send them up? Thank thank you. kind of literary taste. ve to give it a shov i I wis! these you, Dr. Brown ; s, that’s You only 1 rolls any wher you want it to. n more readers were like that. Carolyn Wells, Mrs. Mouse: ow! soux mouse! VILLA YOU'VE GOT 18 ALL woLEs | THIS swiss comicbooks.com