Life, 1904-12-01 · page 10 of 64
Life — December 1, 1904 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising for books and pictures**, not political satire. The upper section promotes new publications by Stewart Edward White, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Anthony Hope, and others—typical literary offerings of 1904. The lower half advertises **Life Publishing Company's pictures** for home decoration. The heartfelt romantic illustration titled "A Heat Full of Affection" and photographs like "Somebody on the Wire" and "By Appointment" were marketed as affordable ($1 each) art prints to help readers furnish homes tastefully. There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page. It represents Life magazine's business model: combining literary reviews with merchandise sales to middle-class readers seeking cultural refinement.
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MYRA KELLY’S LITTLE CITIZENS HUMORS OF SCHOOL LIFE nore piquant, more delicious set of small in modern fiction.” Louisville Post. “The charm of the stories ties in this delicate blending of humor and pathos . . . the appreciative reader finds his voice cat g with a sob . as he looks into the inner lives of these dear Inttle people and their sweet womanly teacher." A Reader. Cloth, 12mo. Illustrated by W. D. Stevens $1.50 FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT CLOSED ROOM “* As the study of the heart of a child, it is doubrful if ‘Inthe Closed Room " has ever been surpassed” Chicago Tribune. “In material make-up the book 1s a gem, cloth edge go, bor- dered page, superbly illustrated.” A/Aany Express. Eight Mlustrations in Color by Jessie Witcox SMitn. Cloth, large r2mo, Decorated through- $1.50 NEW BOOKS BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE BLAZED TRAIL STORIES “Full of go and vim ure convincingly “Of the younger American writers, few deserve THE MOUNTAINS ‘To the ordinary book of travel and adventure, the life of the great Northwest timber tracts, so well the recognition extended to them as Stewart what an ascent of Pike's Peak is to a trip in the : OS futiburgh Gazette Edward White.” Cloth, r2mo Frontispiece in color $1.50 Subway.” New York Tribune. The Bookman. Cloth, ge 12mo. I}ustrated Postpaid, $1.62 ; net, $t.s0 ANTHONY HOPE’S GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN RIDER HAGGARD’S STUDY OF MATRIMONY THE HOUSE Author of Emmy Lou Romance of the Crusade OF FULFILMENT [ 7 yf — BRETHREN Double Harness * May be classed witht Emmy Lou' in this respect that “* A fine oovel, a brilliant and entertaining statement | it aims at the universa of a human problem which the distinguished author has wef " answered wisely."" Boston Times, t has the Cloth, 12mo. $1.50 Cloth. 12m0 art, that it touches with sensi- “Right royally does its outhor vindicate his dain tive finger the pulse of life itself.” Louisville Post. to rank among the foremost of the many writers who Breath of real life, scales the peaks and have sought to re-create the spiritand the scenes of Gays sounds the depths of love and death.” long gone by.” Parlade(phia North American. Pittsburgh Gazette. $1.50 ® McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. .. BOOTH TARKINGTON .-. Cloth, 12mo. Illustrated, — $1.50 JOSEPH CONRAD .. 44 EAST 23d ST.. NEW YORK Copyright, 1904, Lire. ARE YOU Copyright. 1904. Lire. FURNISHING A HOUSE OR DEC- ORATING A ROOM? HAVE YOU WALL SPACES OR SPOTS WHICH YOU WISH TO MAKE ARTISTIC- ALLY EFFECTIVE AT A SMALL COST ? “A Heart Full of Affection” “Developing and Pricting” LIFE’S PICTURES ARE PARTICULARLY APPROPRIATE, AS THEY LEND AN AIR OF REFINF~*ENT TO ANY HOME. Copyright, 1904, Lire. 1904) Live $1.00 Each LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West Thirty-first Street NEW YORK ™ Somebody on the Wire “By Appointment” comicbooks.com