Life, 1903-10-01 · page 11 of 36
Life — October 1, 1903 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains editorial content and book reviews rather than political cartoons. The main visual is labeled "A Close Call" at top—a series of sketches showing a person in various perilous situations with what appears to be a crocodile or alligator, illustrating near-death escapes. Below is a photograph captioned "An Infant Prodigy" depicting what appears to be a child prodigy musician, with the caption: "His Hairovitch Always Shown a Talent for Music / Yes; Even as a Child He Cried Every Time His Hair Was Cut." The page primarily reviews recently published books on various topics. The humor is gentle and domestic rather than political—the "infant prodigy" caption uses wordplay (hair/Hairovitch) to create mild comedy about a musical child.
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posium of successful experience.” Among other things Mr. Foster publishes the answers of “three hundred and nineteen men of marked accomplishment” to a set of twenty-five questions, and the answers form a symposium of contradictions which should delight any boy with a sense of humor. (Oakwood Publishing Company, Boston. $1.25.) The latest of Macmillan’s little coat pocket novels is a“ fantas- tic tale” of Medieval Germany, by William Stearns Davis, called The Saint of the Dragon's Dale, Mr. Davis tells with considerable grace and feeling the somewhat conventional story of this ex- Crusader turned hermit. (The Macmillan Company. 50c.) There is very little story to The Color of His Soul, by Zoe An- derson Norris, but what there is serves to link together a series of informal and decidedly lifelike sketches of some phases of the shabby side of New York life. (R. F. Fenno and Company.) J. B. Kerfoot, OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. Wood Folk at School, By Wilitam J, Long. (Ginn and Company.) Everyman. (Fox, HumMeld and Company, $1.00.) Mors et Victoria, (Longmans, Green and Company. $1.20.) Perverted Proverbs. By Colonel D. Streamer. (R. IH. Russell.) Discourses on War, By William Ellery Channing. (Ginn and Com. pany.) Bridge Up to Date. By Charles Stuart Street, (Dodd, Mead and Company. $1.25.) Don Juan, 17th and 18th Cantos, (London: Ariiss Andrews, Limited.) Jefersontan Democracy. By John K. Dantap. (The Jeffersonian Society.) AN INFANT PRODIGY HAS HAIROVITCH ALWAYS SHOWN A TALENT For MUsict™ YES } EVEN AS A CHILD HE CRIED EVERY TIME M18 HAIR WAS CUT.” comicbooks.com