Life — January 7, 1904 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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A Recipe. (Cy LITTLE love—a little gold ; ‘A soupsonof the sentimental; WY Asui A touch of tyr iden cold— pny paren’ or rich ; a mn A burning house— A fall (train minute), runaway in half a Select, just so the maiden’s in A stampede on a Western ranch— A wad dog—a Kentucky killing— An earthquake, or 4 A rescuer that's prompt and willing ; n avalanche— A little sob—a little salve Applied to papa con amore; nd you'll have The modern syndicate short story ! Frank I’reston Smart, Just mix these deftly Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr.'s, book of n Great Writers, we may atulate ourselves upon that says once more co ailiel, at whose feet we sit receptive and quiescent. He is an enthusi- astic partisan and brilliant advocate, to whose championing of our views we listen with triumphant satisfaction, or whose at- tacks upon our opinions we are stimulated to oppose with the joy of intellectual com- bat. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company. $1.50.) The title, price and imposing presence of Francis LL. Wellman’s octavo volume, The Art of Cross-Examination, suggest such forbidding and priestly keepers of the legal temple ay ‘Parsons on Contracts" and “Addison on Torts.” this is so little of acoll to be prodigal lay thrifty student $2.50.) tion of anecdotes that we suspect it aimed rather at the pocket of the intellect of the Macmillan n than (th Manning, is an example class of stories perhaps best typi- Its scene is in the war nd the rai current is none of the swiftest, the characters are sufticiently ginal and sufficiently lifelike to make the book decidedly attractive to lovers of the type. (Harper and Brothers. $1.50.) nian, between the raisers of cattle and, while its de: ers of sheep, -LIFE- The struggle to the death between the railway and the steamboat for the com- of the Mississippi Valley is a theme which might make a background for a great writer. Me. G. W. Ogden it for his novel, has written an exciting and entertaining story, well handled in personal details and showing isolated bits of dramatic feeling and occasional flashes of tragic sugges But his grasp of the greater drama is ‘nd the result is merely a novel of the day. (A. S. Barnes ny. $1.50.) s chosen Todd, 1 Tennessee and inadequate, readal aberton's new story of mystery ure, Doctor Xavier, is abe of its class, It is true that the action is somewhat clogged by insistent descriptions of ivory furniture and luxuri- ous stage settings, but he is a tyro at light reading who cannot skip descrip the action remains and is well handled. (D. Appleton and Company. e the The Holladay Case is a detective story by Burton E. Stevenson, distinguished by several points of good workmanship from the school of Anna Katherine Green, and yet, except for the creation of one character, the attractive and unorthodox villain, rele- gated by the final measure of its un originality to the company of its fellows (Henry Holt and Company. $1.25.) We are glad to see Cleveland Moffat's Careers of Danger and Daring appear ina new and cheaper edition. This book, which describes the author's experiences and in- ws with such men as steeplejacks, ge builders, acronauts and divers, is one of the most genuinely fascinating books for hoys of which we know. (The Century Company. $1.50.) J. B, Kerfoot, Close. i RIGGS: To look at those two fellows you wouldn't think they belonged to the same family, would you? Griccs : I see no resem- blance, Are you sure they do? “Oh, yes. One is the speculator, and the other the manager of a theatre.”’ 7 ODD: Don’t you think +» you'd better go home to your wife Topp: Not yet, ol’ fel’. Te's have few more rounds. I don’t wanter be able to re- Good College Men. ‘7 T is related that the Princeton Club of New York lately considered the expediency of giving a dinner in honor of Mayor-Elect McClellan, and decided not to, becanse it was considered that Mr. McClellan was ‘not a good Princeton m: If that really was the reason, the club ought not to have let it leak out, for it has made the worldlings smile. The chief test of a really good college man is his ability to get out of college and make himself thoroughly at home in the cold outside world. If he does that, and does it creditably, it ought to be forgiven him that he neglects the football games, and even fails to divide mankind into two classes—those who went to his college and those who didn’t. Some mighty good and useful men are good college men. President Roosevelt, Ambassador Choate, Mr. Carter and hundreds more are good Harvard men; Governor Taft, Senator Depew, the Honorable Tim. Woodraff and hun- dreds more are good Yale men; Mr. Cleveland is a pretty good Princeton man, though not a graduate, and there is no lack of others. But it is a great mistake for college men to be too clannish. For any grown-up man to “T NIVER Rope TN A coach.” “pipy't yen?” member what she says. “NOj ME LITTLE BRUDDER DIED BEPORE 1 WAS HORN.” comicbooks.com