Life, 1904-12-01 · page 14 of 64
Life — December 1, 1904 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire or commentary. It's a publisher's catalog promoting Macmillan Company books for the holiday season, organized into three categories: illustrated books, juvenile literature, and novels. The only historical figure explicitly referenced is **Thomas Nast**, the famous 19th-century political cartoonist. The advertisement notes his symbolic creations—particularly "the tiger of Tammany" (referring to Tammany Hall, NYC's corrupt Democratic machine)—demonstrating his significant influence on American politics, even though contemporaries underestimated his power. Other notable authors advertised include Jack London (*The Sea-Wolf*), Winston Churchill (the novelist, not the future Prime Minister), and F. Marion Crawford. The page reflects early 1900s literary tastes and publishing practices, with prices ranging from $1.50 to $6.00 and detailed postage costs. There is **no cartoon or satire present**—this is straightforward commercial advertising.
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The Macmillan Holiday Book List NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Mr. Maurice Hewlett’s The Road in Tuscany A genial, leisurely book of travel by the author of ‘The Queen's Quair,"’ ‘The Forest Lovers,” etc. ; a riot of color and charm and fragrance. With over 200 illustrations by Mr. Joseph Pennell. ~ In two volumes. Cloth. $6.00 inet Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, by G. B.-J. A charmingly informal and intimate account of the life and the Pictures of the most famous and also the best-loved artist of his day. Ulustrated with over go photogravures. In two volumes. $6.00 net. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures, by Albert Bigelow Paine This life is from materials largely supplied by Nast himself. Few who laugh over his creations, which still live in such symbols as the tiger of Tammany, realize the power in national politics of the unassuming artist. In general interest it is one of the richest of the season's books. Illustrated with hundreds of reproductions of his famous cartoons. Cloth. 8vo, $5.00 net, Mr. Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan: -An Attempt at Interpretation “throws more light on Japanese character than all the books put together that foreigners have written about the land.""—N_Y. Sua, Cloth. $2.00 net (postage 1 3c.). Mrs. Roger A. Pryor’s Reminiscences of Peace and War “ Everybody who likes to read at all will enjoy this book. It has all the attractiveness of clever fiction, yet it will be prized by historians no less than by the entertainment-seeker,"’ says the Record-Herald, Chicago. With six portraits, Cloth. Cr, 8vo. $2.00 net (postage 21¢,), Mr. Daniel Gregory Mason’s Beethoven and His Forerunners An untechnical account of the development of instrumental music up to its first great culmination in the work of Beethoven Cloth, $2.00 net (postage 14¢.). THE BEST NEW JUVENILES Mr. S. R. Crockett’s Red Cap Tales Srovex prom tie Treasure Cuest or THE Wizarp or THE NortH The brilliant novelist, himself a born story-teller, reproduces some of the ** Waverley "’ tales to draw children into a love for Scott. Illustrated in colors, Cloth, $2.00 net (postage 17¢.). Mr. Edwyn Sandys's Sportsman Joe “So well written and so full of intimacy with the wilds and the love of them that no one can read it without profit and pleasure.” —Philadelphia Press. loth. 12mo. $1.50. Miss Georgiana Goddard King’s Comedies and Legends for Marionettes is a timely book on the present fad for making toy theatres and besides stimulates the healthy child's love for constructing his own toys. Illustrated, Cloth, $1.50 net (postage ric.). THE BEST NEW NOVELS Mr. Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf “Reading it through at a sitting, we have found it poignantly interesting. No one who cares for a faithful study of sea life, painted with strength and insight, can afford to leave ‘The Sea-Wolf’ unread.""—New York Tribune, By the author of ** The Call of the Wild.” Cloth, $1.50. F. Marion Crawford’s Whosoever Shall Offend is described as ‘'a breezy, straightforward, vigorous and masterful tale of Italy’; in short, as the New York Sun say Here we have the old Crawford at his best and every lover of a good story will rejoice.” Tilustrated. Cloth. $1.50. Robert Herrick’s The Common Lot “It is full of action, of actual human characters. It grips the reader tremendously . . . the finest study of human motive that has appeared for many a day.""—The World To-day. Cloth. $1.50. Winston Churchill's The Crossing “is the most engrossing tale the season has brought us," says Cleveland Leader—" beyond a doubt the most important novel of the year.”’ Cloth, $1.50. Maurice Hewlett’s The Queen's Quair “ An enthralling work... profoundly absorbing . . . of consummate art."—New York Tritune, Cloth. $1.50. Stephen Phillips’ new poem The Sin of David is a deeply dramatic rendering of the theme of David and Uriah in types of Cromwell's time. “It is of even greater dramatic power and beauty than his ‘Ulysses’ which is said to be ‘the most strikingly imagin: production the present generation has witnessed.’ ""—London Daily Express. Cloth, 16 mo. $1.25 net (postage 7 Published The Macmillan Company “° Fifth Ave comicbooks.com