Life, 1903-07-02 · page 10 of 32
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This page from *Life* magazine reviews new books, specifically literary fiction. The main cartoon (left side) illustrates a scene with dialogue: "I thought sorry you are engaged to sister," "wait," "Well, now you make love to her in plain view, but before it was a great deal more fun to watch you through the keyhole." The satire targets Victorian sexual hypocrisy—the joke being that courtship conducted openly under societal rules is less entertaining than secret, voyeuristic observation. This mocks the era's restrictive propriety while simultaneously suggesting the prurient interest lurking beneath respectable society. The right side contains literary reviews of contemporary novels, including titles like *The Legalee* and *The Vulgarians*. The small illustration of a boy appears unrelated to the main satire.
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mith's story eters -LIFE- Sy Z 7 First novels by new authors are falling ve fi thick as meteors in August. Few of them, however, are as well controlled and as ; aE TAPERS cleanly cut as Alice Prescott POR OETA RENE of an upper Wisconsin lumbering vill Gome familiarity with the scientific at- The Legatee. The picture is strikingly true \Otainments and theories of the day has to the life of a decade ago, the eh: always been needed by the student of are drawn with ease and skill and the story philosophy, and in our own times, when — is most readable. (Houghton, Mifflin and science in all its branches is consciously Company. $1.50.) h familiarity is understanding iming at ultima nity, su sable to th doubly indispe Were one to jad, n ¢ Vulgarians, one would not suspect that . See ee. Oe Edgar Faweett had ever possessed the Carl Snyder's Neir Conceptions in Science, a i p et ties 3 volume for the educated layman, is strongly SHshtest giftas a story-teller. These New York experiences of the beneficiaries of a Western mining suit have neither plot nor wit, nor even salt, to give them flavor. (The Smart Set Publishing Company. $1.00.) recommended as side ling to the philo- pateur. (Harper and Broth- sophical ers. $2.00.) A romantic trage¢ the unhappy struggle the tenth century, It is a pleasure to renew acquaintance petween Eadwine the nd Dunstan of holy name and unholy , is told The Sins of a Saint, by JLR. Aitken, with the neighborhood made familiar to us in The Garden of a Commuter's Wife. The res have invaded the countryside since we knew it, and hence the title of non-disappointing sequel. (The Macmillan ok, The People of the Company. $1.50.) mil uthor's style as well as m the Anglo-Saxon Barbara's new 1 its historical and BS artistic merits. Neither is recommended — WMiripool. The fashionables, however, have 7y7q Varick, Amelia E, Barr's new for cheerful summer reading. (D. Appleton eft our author's charm unspoiled, and her yovel, isa tale of Edinburgh and the Ork- and Company. $1.50.) second book is that wousual thing, & jeys in the days of the Young Pretender. The love story of a beautiful daughter of the Islands and the plots for the return of “the king across the sea” are blended into an entertaining, if not a startlingly original, story. (J. F. Taylorand Company. $1.50.) There is a promising beginning and quite a spirited finish to A. Maynard Barbour's melodramatic tale, At the Time Appointed. But there is a sandy desert some two hundred pages wide be- tween these termini which will try the endurance of the stanchest devotee of mystery and sensation. (The J. B. Lippincott Com- pany, Philadelphia. $1.50.) J.B, Kerfoot. Talk Is Cheap. \{ RS. VON FLOAT- “ ER: How does this “ New Thought ” com- pare with the other re- ligions, Professor Deep- dip? Proresson DEEPDIP: Oh, my dear madame, it is so delightfully inex- pensive. “1 AM KINDER SORRY YOU ARE ENGAGED To sIsTER.”” “wn = i VE ‘nal fo: w “WELL, NOW YOU MAKE LOVE TO HER IN PLAIN VIEW, BUT BEFORE IT WAS A GREAT DEAL. MORE I ° is eternal for a by hole FUN To WATCH You THROVGM THE KETHOLE.” week after the wedding. comicbooks.com