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This page is primarily **advertising and book review content**, not political satire. The left column reviews recent books, discussing literary works by authors like Gwendolen Cawdton and Stewart Edward White. The main visual element is an illustration titled "The Angelus" (right side), depicting two figures in a classical pose—likely referencing Millet's famous 1859 painting of peasants praying in a field. Below this is an advertisement for **The Wilcox & White Co.**, a piano manufacturer established 1876, which "enables performers to obtain such brilliant results." At the bottom is a motor boat advertisement from the **Racing Boat Mfg. Co.** in Muskegon, Michigan. The page contains no evident political commentary or social satire—it's a typical early 20th-century magazine layout mixing editorial content with commercial advertisements.

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Some Books Received. ERILY there are more books on heaven and earth, Horatio, than were dreamed of in thy bibliog- y! Lyrical prose and prose lyrics; philosophical ense and nonsensical philosophy; plain books souls in them and coquettishly gilded volumes of emptiness! Lire would gladly express its inion of each of them, and has expressed its opinion wer twelve hundred of them in the past three y », but now it would call attention to s ich no space could be found in its regular columns, is the study of nature which has led to the | ipathy with the young so marked in the new chil- | 1's books, Atany rate, it is good to find working huis field such writers as Gwendolen Overton, with | Captain's Daughter, a story of her beloved We Stewart Edward Whit hor of The Blazed uit, with The Magie Forest (The Macmillan Com- yi. Then there are Johuute, a memory of boy- 1, by E, O, Laughlin (The Bobbs-Merrill Com- M. E. Waller's Greea Mountain Tale, 4 of the Rich (Little, Brown and Company), | Evelyn Sharp's The Children Who Ran Atay © Macmillan Company). For the seriously minded, Allen Dinsmore’s Aids to the Study of Dante| ston, Mifflin and Company) is an excellent addi- oan already colossal literature, For devotees of peripatetic school of hero worship, there are The mance of Old New England Churches, by Mary C. asford (L, C, Page and Company); Among the uf Masters of the Drama, by Walter Rowlands (Dana Estes and Company), and Some Famous Amer i 1 Schools, by Oscar Fay Adams (Dana Estes and company), For those who en ing through the nions of erudition without getting much for'arder, re is Laura May Evans's treatise on Afusic én Art, C. Page and Company), There is good advice, and episcopal, for The Young Woman in tern Life, by Beverley Warner, D.D. (Dodd, Mead There is a representative collection ures and addresses by Henry Watterson, entitled Compromises of Life (Fox, Duffield and Com- pany), and a composite volume upon The Ship of State by Those at the Hem, written by such men as Presi- T h e A N G E L U S cent Roosevelt, Thomas B, Reed, Henry Cabot Lodge J others (Ginn and Company), For the giddy, there | ure laughs in May Isabel Fisk’s Afonofogues (Harper | 1 Brothers), and Joe Ullman’s stories of the race racks, Whar's the Odds ? (Metropolitan Printing Com- ). Jacob A. Riis publishes Zhe Children of the Tenements, a collection of tales reprinted from the magazines (The Macmillan Company), and Laura E, Richards, who wrote Caplain January, a book of {ables called The Golden Window: le, Brown and Company). Gorko, by Charles K. Gaines, is a romance I’ is worth while for anyone interested in piano music to know why The ov ancient Athens by a professor of Greck. | Zetadiak || B+ 4 noelus enables performers to obtain such brilliant results. Our book- 1, by Dr. S. Paige Johnson (Broadway Pub- & " lishing Company), is a gleaning from the Darv¢|IJet, mailed tree on request, explaining about the Phrasing Lever, tells why. /arum crop. Lovers of involuted and hydra-headed a satire may enjoy Tie Literary Guillotine, by John Purchased by Royalty and the world’s greatest musicians Lane's * unknow and, finally, //< Handbook of P lamentary Usage (Hinds and Noble) is a most usefil and tngeaiolis pocket reference book, The Wilcox & Wh ite Co. Font ate) on CAMBRIDGE bedmaker once told a certain don for whom she worked that very kind to her, and that she was grateful. ‘The don looked pl -, pray for you every night, sir,” said the MOTOR BOATS “Tt is very good of you to think of me, Mrs. Ast Lavaca Stee ee RTT EUS nt ; Lor’, si replied the bedmaker affably, ¥ he spenpers Dears bulk ‘Agencies in all principal cities Write to “it ain't a mossel of trouble to put your = 8try RACINE BOAT MFG."CO., Box 102, Muskegon, Mich, name in along of all the others."—London “ Globe. EVERYWHERE comicbooks.com