Life, 1903-09-10 · page 6 of 20
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This page contains book reviews rather than political cartoons. The main illustration shows a figure in formal dress (top) and below it a scene (captioned "You may run the earth, but I'll run you," said the fool) depicting what appears to be a confrontation between a well-dressed man and a woman in an exaggerated pose. The reviews discuss literary works including discussions of philosophy, standard oil company history, and a novel in letter form. The cartoons seem to illustrate themes about power dynamics and social relationships—likely satirizing the tension between material success and domestic/romantic influence, a common early 20th-century satirical theme about gender relations. Without clearer context about publication date or specific literary references, precise interpretation remains limited.
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Our Fresh-Air Fund. ly acknowledged $8,852 ds of w circa got Mary Loutse . Eizabetn Howe Head ford, Polly Ih ward, Hildegarde nd Shepard Wrigat nester Twelfth Antual Subscrip- the Live Fresh-Air Fund. eeds of an entertainment given at ammpecoit, Masa.,.by Janet, Mary atid Katrina Van Sickle, Fannie Bond, Joan Cheesman and Reginald Windram.. In memory of *R BS. . “Interested... Mother Anne PHILOSOPHICAL discussion concern- ing the nature and human value of love, carried on betwe who is very youn, materialist, and a poet who is older but has kept his ideals, published anonymously under the title of The Kempton-Wace Let and an uneompromis ters, is a decidedly clever example of light metaphysics. It is rumored that, owing to the opinions Sie in this volume, the wife of the supposed authors is suing him for salvos Should the decree be ¢ , “incompatible philosophy" is likely to. prove (The Mac- millan Company fashionable. $1.50.) A Parish of Tio is a novel, also cast in the form of letters. this time supposed to be exchanged between a man about town and an invalid clergyman, and written in col- laboration by “ Percy Collins” and Henry Goelet MeVickar. The clergyman’s con- tributions are rather well done, but Mr. MeVickar’s imagination is too lurid for anything short of the Police Ga- zette, (The Lothrop Publishing Com- pany. $1.50.) A handsome volume upon Athletics and Outdoor Sports for Women, edited by Lucille E, Hill and fully illastrated, contains some sixteen ar- ticles upon as many forms of sport, written | experts, The instructions, , however, are so necessarily limited that the book can hardly do more than create a number of highly en- thusiastic and charming duffers. (The Macmillan Company, $1.50.) s many LIFE Justin Huntly McCarthy seems to have grown suddenly tired in the midst of his sea story called Marjorie, book, biog! with a hero's He begins the which is supposed to be the auto- uphy of one Raphael Crowninshield, id and pleasant history of his youth, develops some rather crude adventures suggestive of Mayne Reid, and, apparently dissatisfied with the result, nips a half-grown romance with a few lines of hurried (It, H. Russell.) Captain Hiram M. Chittendén of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, has just published a new edition of his vol- ume upon The Yellowstone National Park, ninch enlarged and brought up to date. His history of the region is most interesting, and his data and descriptions are full and lucid. upon the Yellowstone regio: Clark Company, Cincinnati.) (The Robert ‘The title of Gilbert H. Montague’s essay, The Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Company, might possibly suggest to the public a somewhat sensational treatise upon the secret history of this pioneer among the trusts, In reality itis a concise and very sane analysis of the relations between the company and the railroads. (Harper and Brothers, $1.00.) Lilian Bell is by no means in her best vein in The Interference of Patricia, The story, however, which gives an unmistaka- bly feminine version of a supposed deal in Denver trolley stocks, is really too imponderable to criticise. (L. C. Page and Company, Boston. $1.00.) J.B, Kerfoot, It is easily the best book we know of AT PEND, MARIA. COMPORTABLE WHEN YOU SET. “TWILL BE su OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. English Poems from Chaucer to Kipling. Falted by Thomas M. Parrott and Augustus W. Long. For use in secondary schools and smaller colleges, (Ginn and Company, Boston. $1.00.) The Canterbury Pilgrime. A comedy by Percy Mac Kaye. (The Mactilian Company. $1.25.) Joliffe. Incidents of pecullar beltets in meridi- onal France. By Maxwell Sommerville. (Drexel Biddie, Phiisdeipnia) comicbooks.com