Life, 1903-09-17 · page 6 of 20
Life — September 17, 1903 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page consists primarily of **book reviews** rather than political satire. "The Real Thing" cartoon at bottom-left is a light social commentary showing a conversation between a parent and child about recognizing genuine wealth—when "diamonds are genuine, and their manners are not." This reflects *Life*'s typical satirical commentary on American social pretension and class display. The bulk of the page reviews recent literary works, including titles by Charles Scribner's Sons and other publishers. The "Fresh-Air Fund" donation list suggests this issue dates to the early 20th century. The two illustrated images accompanying book reviews appear to be cover art or promotional illustrations rather than satirical commentary on current events.
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“Look IT, rADER, Our Fresh-Air Fund. Prestonsly acknowledge LL E Ward. From No 3 w Kitty Poker..... In memory of B measnens ©. E, Soclety of Kidders, N.Y. 1 Woodstock The Real Thing. FLOW can you tell, papa, when people are way up in so- When their diamonds are genuine, and their manners are not." s belonged to the impressi pol, She has had an eminently personal me to ely individual and of delivery. Her rhe Kaman Road, however, sugg: sts ck” has alw de an effeeti book, that she is tending toward mystic or ultra- violet imp There are two stories and a fragment in the book, The Koman Koad is a flat and unattractive study in The Balance, an inte: method pssionism. literary blacks and grays. 18 DOT DE STORK VAT BF Seana Ww BaBiEs?"* in literary purples and yellows. Aty is a charming fragment of child “Zack” isa (Charles Scribner's nature. Such an offering from real disappointment. 50.) ctre of Power, by Charles Egbert Craddo ir load of ore from Miss Murfree’s private liter mine in the 3 oky Mountains, She has worked the vein back to 1760, and the present ro- mance concerns itself with the intrigues be- tween the Fi and English and their Indian allies, but with all its weight of brill tion and Indian research the long story is rather a test of endurance. (Houghton, Miflin and Company. $1.50.) , is a new ant deseri The attention of the many enthusiasts who have been awakened by recent bird books and their kin is called to Birds in Their Relation to Man, by Clarence M. Weed and Ned Dearborn, Primarily the volume is a study of economic ornithology, methods of the authors and the substitution of proven facts for pretty sentiment make it one of the most practical of nature books. (The J. B. Lip- pincott Company, Philadelp but the scientiti Josephine Daskam's Middle-Aged Love ries deserves a good place in the light reading of the moment. To our young friends, greedily eating romance at the side table of fiction. the title doubtless appears paradoxical. But we others—well, we are Miss Daskam bner’s Sons, ing wider sympathies, als to them. (Charles § $1.25.) f the old South, ideal- arrott Brown in The hero is a Another glimpse ized, is given by Wil ff the s A Gentleman math, man with the moral courage to. seem a ical coward, a dificult réle in either real life or fiction, and the result isa soft, but the book is excellently writte at for the sentimentalist, n Company. $1.50.) Cheerful Americans is the title which Mr. Charles Battell volume of sketches of characters encoun- tered chiefly on shipboard and abroad. Some of them are cheerful in their own right, and all of them, thanks to Mr Loomis has given to a “CLEAR MAVANA LicuT. comicbooks.com