Life, 1903-06-18 · page 10 of 24
Life — June 18, 1903 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily a **book recommendation list**, not a political cartoon. It presents "LIFE's Guide to Summer Reading" — a curated selection of novels, short stories, and non-fiction works organized by category. The list includes literary works by authors like Alice Brown, Nancy Huston Banks, and Owen Wister, along with their publishers. Categories include "Lighter Fiction," "Short Stories," and "Philosophy, History, Criticism and Books of Reference." This reflects Life magazine's role as a cultural arbiter for educated, leisure-class readers during the early 20th century. The selections suggest summer as an appropriate season for serious literary and intellectual engagement — a concept tied to genteel leisure culture of that era.
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IFE once more submits to its read- ers for their convenience during the coming leisure days a short list of books containing some of the best of the past year’s productions. Here are novels of sorts, worthy of more than the passing notice which is all that a busy age can give them. Here are novels of other sorts, meant only to speed a stormy afternoon, but well suited to the task. Here are meatier books for the seriously mind- ed, fun for the lover of laughter, and perhaps here and there a touch of spice for the epicure. The list is taken from books pub- lished between May Ist, 1902, when last year's list was compiled, and April 1st of this year, when this one was made up. Nor is it exhaustive, even for that period. It is a sugges- tion, not a judgment, and aims to save you from hopeless bewilderment among many titles or a blind selec- tion at a railway news stand, The books are roughly divided into their respective classes. QOD NOVELS. EXAMPLES OF LITERARY SKILL IN THE DELINEATION CF HUMAN CHARACTER. Banner of Blue, by S. RR. (McClure, Phillips and Com- The Crockett. pany.) The Thurston. pany.) Hidden Manna, by A. (A. S. Barnes and Company.) Enoch Strone, by E. Phillips Oppen- heim. (G. W. Dillingham Company.) The Hole in the Wall, by Arthur Morrison, (McClure, Phillips and Company.) The Kentons, by W. D. (Harper and Brothers.) Lady Rose's Daughter, by Mrs. Hum- phry Ward. (Harper and Brothers.) The Last Word, by Alice McGowan. (L. C. Page and Company.) The Lover's Progress, Anonymous. (Brentano's. ) Katherine C Mead and Com- Circle, by (Dodd, Dawson. Tlowells. Marion Manning, by Edith Eustace. (Harper and Brothers.) The Mannerings, by Alice Brown. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) Oldfield, by Nancy Huston Banks. (The Macmillan Company.) The Son of a Fiddler,by Jenette Lee. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) The Virginian, by Owen Wister. (The Macmillan Company.) LIGHTER FICTION. CLEVER PLOTS, PRETTY LOVE STORIES AND BRIGHT SATIRE. Aladdin O'Brien, by Gouverneur Morris. (The Century Company.) The Blazed Trail, by Stewart Ed- ward White. (McClure, Phillips and Company.) A Daughter of the Snows, by Jack London. (The J. B. Lippincott Com- pany, Philadelphia.) The Fortuncs of Oliver Horn, by F. Hopkinson Smith. (Charles Scribner's Sons.) Edges, by Alice Woods. (The Bow- en-Merrill Company, Indianapolis.) The Henchman, by Mark Lee Luther. (The Macmillan Company.) John Ermine of the Yellowstone, by Frederic Remington. (The Macmillan Company.) The Manor Farm, by M. E. Francis. (Longmans, Green and Company.) Mrs. Tree, by Laura E. Richards. (Dana, Estes and Company.) The Poct and Penclope, by L. Parry Truscott. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) The Reflections of Ambrosine, by Eli- nor Glyn, (Llarper and Brothers.) A Summer in New York, by Edward W. Townsend. (Henry Holt and Com- pany.) The Turner. Pp ) Typhoon, by Joseph Conrad. Putnam's Sons.) The Thirteenth District, by Brand Whitlock. (‘The Bowen-Merrill Com- pany, Indianapolis.) Task Masters, by George K. (McClure, Vbillips and Com- (G, P. Under My Owen Roof, by Adelaide L. Rouse. (Funk and Wagnalls Com- pany.) Winslow Plain, by Sarah P. MeL. Green. (Harper and Brothers.) SHORT STORIES Children of the Frost, by Jack Lon- don, (The Macmillan Company.) Byways, by Stanlev J. (Longmans, Green and Com- In Kings’ Weyman. pany.) The Turquoise Cup, by Arthur Coss- lett Smith. (Charles Scribner’s Sons.) PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, CRITICISM AND BOOKS, OF REFERENCE. The American Republic and Its Government, by James Albert Wood- burn. (G. P, Putnam's Sons.) American Diplomacy in the Orient, by John W. Foster. (Houghton, Mif- flin and Company.) Education and the Larger Life, by C. H. Henderson. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) Field Book of American Wild Flow- ers, by F. Schuyler Mathews. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) The Lost Art of Reading, by Geral? Stanley Lee. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) Lee at Appomattor and Other Pa- pers, by Charles Francis Adams. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) Literary Values, by John Burroughs. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company. ' George Eliot, by Sir Leslie Stephen. (The Macmillan Company.) Nature and the Camera, by A. Rad- clyffe Dugmore. (Doubleday, Page and Company.) Our Benevolent Feudalism, bv W. G. Ghent. (‘The Macmillan Company.) The Truth and Error of Christian Science, by M. Carta Sturge. (E. P. Dutton and Company.) A Woman’s Hardy Garden, by Helena Rutherfurd Ely. (The Macmillan Company.) comicbooks.com