Life, 1903-12-10 · page 10 of 58
Life — December 10, 1903 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **book advertising**, not political satire or editorial cartooning. It features promotions for several books from the early 20th century, including: - *The Real Diary of a Real Boy* by Henry A. Shute—presented as humorous memoir material - *Letters from a Son to His Self-Made Father* by Charles Eustace Merriman - Holiday book selections like *The Literary Guillotine*, *The Cardinal's Snuff-Box*, and *The MS. in a Red Box* The advertisements use period marketing language emphasizing humor, illustration quality, and moral instruction—typical of how publishers positioned books for middle-class readers. There is **no political cartoon content** visible. The page represents commercial publishing rather than editorial commentary.
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Wwrerer Juke THE REAL DIARY | OF A REAL BO PRESS COMPANY MASS. | THE EVERETT goston | | when he thought it was =} worth "a quarter of a dolar 4+ a week" or at the age when his father "sed he wood give $1,000 dolars for a diry," the "diry" takes you BACK OVER MEMORY'S ROAD to By-gone Days and Boy- hood where now only the bright spots show through. There is a greater number of honest, hearty laughs in The Real Diary of a Real Boy than in half a dozen of the modern comic operas at a dollar a seat for each one, and the Diary costs but a dollar. —Good Housekeeping. Bound in boards, buck- ram cover, price $1.00. All stores or by mail. “CLEVERNESS OF RETORT, SNAPPY NARRATIVE, AND INFECTIOUS HUMOR” Letters from A Son to His Self-Made Father By CHARLES EUSTACE MERRIMAN “THE BRIGHTEST SERIES OF LETTERS PUBLISHED IN YEARS” New Hampshire Publishing Corporation BOSTON ANSWERS to LETTERS from a Illustrated by KULZ Strikingly Bound in Cloth Price $1.25 AT ALL BOOK SELLERS or Sent Postpaid by the Publishers AC Killingly funny New Illustrated Edition of Ghe Literary Guillotine | 64e Cardinal’s Snuff-Box By Henry Harland By 22222? 12mo. $1.50 If you want the maximum of excitement to | Profusely illustrated |} the square inch, read 3 by THE MS. IN A ereirrens RED BOX By the “Dark” Author Al splendid swashbuckler tale of daring and adventure. I12mo. $1.50 16mo. $1.00 net If you can enjoy clever and telling satire on popular authors—here it is Cyrus Lauron Hooper 12mo. $1.50 WHERE LOVE IS 16mo. $1.00 net GEE-BOY GEE-BOY New Novel by the author of Ghe story of a boy-dreamer, after the style “The Usurper,” “Idols,” etc. of Kenneth Grahame's “Golden_Age” JOHN LANE _ yc. NEW YORK comicbooks.co