Life — July 23, 1903 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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AT LIPE's PRESH-AIR PARM—ON THE HILL. Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previously acknowledged... $4,338. CS W. DRG ‘and in methory of First. subscription 3 from West: chester to Live's Fresh-air Fund B I. Henry Phipps COUR thanks to Messrs. Charland and Lenbart or the following brief note and for the three barrels of crackers which are already bard at work : “With good wishes from us POSTAL CARDS FROM LIFE’S FARM Jeng 13 enjoying ourselt very One, we go on the tree and we play hall. we go to the strawberry trees and to blackberry trees. And Obitage Your loving son, soon answered to Lire’s Farm, Branchstlle, Conn, Dear papa ; We are Dear mother 1 like the much I have a enough to fan, Micky lost the 1 sent me more y all the famtiy, & pape untry very at and | have my oney in the train I sent my best regards to Please answ Kentucky. HINGS are comparatively quiet here. The Jakes-Green feud 13 ended, the Jakes family being cleverly ambushed and shot yesterday by * Bad” Green and his eleven brothers... Jadge Moore will run for the Legislature. He has made himself solid by origioating a new form of entertainment, Ta the midst of bia lawn féte he announced & lynching bee in the next lot. A typical negro was used. It 1s expected this tdea will spread, +. . A few accidents are to te chronicled. In the course of an argument with Major Buck- shaw,Colonel Carter's pistol went off. The Major lived several hours. Colonel Carter will get a new pistol. Three Sbertifs were shot Monday or Tuesday. Most of the stills are running again. Pits is Clocer, by Frank Danby, is an exuberant and rather tumultuous story of English and Sonth African polities and e and of elemental human nature. interest and rough power, nd teems with a form of realism which, while unque: ly legitimate, will likely prove ui y to the fastidious, “ Frank Danby,” the way, is the nom de plune of Mrs. Julia Frankau. (The J. B. Lippincott Philadelphia. $1.50.) It abounds in though it lacks literary polish mpan, An hour's good reading put up in pocket shape is often handy at this season, and the supplying of this demand is the object “Tittle novels by favorite autl the first of which is Owen Wister’s excellent Philosophy Four, Man Overboard, a decidedly spooky ghost story b F Mr. egan's Elopement, a passable naval story by Winston Churchill, and a rather poor affair by Gertrude Atherton, called Mrs, Penileton's Four-in- Hawi, are the others to date. (The Macmillan Company. Harvard story, Marion Crawford, is another. 50e.) Arthur Sherburne Hardy's new nove His Daughter First, is fortable bi tional thoroughly ther sen sa clean onteniporary life, whose ors have the indefinable but sover- gn quality of se of fiction given ton mi nor analytics. It written love s oft well- char: to be real peo (Houghton, Mifflin and Com; ~ $1.50.) lward S. Zile has completely out- Ansteyed Anstey in the clever nonsense of his three skits now published together under the title of Perkins, the Fakeer, When Reginald Was Caroline is amusing, How Chopin Came to Remsen is more amusing, and Clarissa's Troublesome Baby is a non- sensical gem, All three are take-offs on TON unr ft the fad forthe occult. (The Smart Set Pub- lishing Company. $1.00.) The Love of Monsieur, by George Gibbs, is a romantic confection over the popular recipe where the hero is master of court manners, easy insolence and the rapier, and the heroine first loathes, then loves. Time, that of Charles II. Special flavors : Assorted duels, melées in London taverns, and fight- ing on the ish Main, (Harper and Brothers. $1.50.) Another, but far less conventional story of past days is A. T. Quiller-Couch’s Ad- ventures of Harry Revel. Harry isa small foundling, who became mixed up with a comicbooks.com