Life, 1905-01-05 · page 32 of 36
Life — January 5, 1905 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and book review page** from Life magazine's early 1900s era, with limited satirical content. The page features three product advertisements using period conventions: *Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen* (center), positioned as a prestigious gift for the New Year; *Cailler's Swiss Milk Chocolate* (lower left), emphasizing European luxury and nutritional superiority; and *Stuyler's Cocoa and Candies* (right). The sole satirical element is "**The Woman of Refinement**" (top left), which mocks upper-class affectations—showing a woman of exaggerated pretension with a caption suggesting that careful stationery selection indicates social standing. This reflects Life's typical mockery of bourgeois status-consciousness. The bulk of the page comprises a "Books Received" section listing newly published titles across history, education, and literature, reflecting Life's role as a cultural arbiter for educated American readers circa 1904-1905.
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Art of Lever Writing. ne of YOUF stationer, Earoy-Hencact Pare Co., Pittsfield, Mass, For 19057? unless you hare @ v0 faithful, none Ne to pen troubles, Treat It rightand it’s allwrite. Did Christmas! If the pen it your band you can ex- change it at any dealers or at our store. L. E. WATERMAN CO., 173 8040May What can bo better than a bound vol- ume of LIFE, with its miscollany of high class, artisticand satirical pictures andtext? We can supply any of the more recent volumes of LIFE durably bound in cloth at $4.00 per volume, postpaid. An allowance of $2.00 is made if the loose copies are returned. GENUINE SWISS MILK CHOCOLATE appreciated after you've tried the ordinary chocolates. Among Swiss Milk Chocolates—long rec- ognized as superi —Cailler’s stands without a rival for richne: ness, palatability and nutritive proj Cailler’s Chocolate is made wholly of cocoa beans, pure sugar and unskimmed milk from the finest pasturage district in the world ‘ailler's Chocolate is pure, wholesome, delicious—a most accep substitute for the busy man’s midday lunch; a delightful substitute for candy any time of day, deli- cious for dainty luncheons, dinners, etc, FREE ON REQUEST—Send your address for sample pact es of both: eating «nd drinking chocolates, Address Dept. D J. M. FREYMANN, 861 Broadway, N. Y. Agent for the United States aper. New d in profusion en write¢, Whitings| Books Received. OHN W. FOSTER, the veteran American diplomat, has con Arbitration and The Hague . Mifflin and Company. $1.00), and volume of interpretation and analy- ration of Independence (The Macmil- lan Company. $2.00). The concluding portion of Philip Van Ness Myers's Medieval and Modern History, ie Modern Company. $1.25), and the fifth volume of mes Ford Rhodes's /fistory of the United States, covering 1864-66 (The Macmillan Company. $2.50) have ap- Also the first v Keadings in European History by James Harvey Robinson, of Columbia Univer- sity (Ginn and Ci $1.65), and A Short Mistery of land, by Edward P, Cheney (Ginn and Company. $1.55). Upon the t al side of things educational, we have a Education, by Age (Gian peare lame of g ompany. $1.50), ¢ of Self-Culture, by Mugh Black (The 5). Information is to be had on ww to Make Pottery, by Mary White, d Work and How to Make Baskets Company. $1.00), down to //ow to William H. Fleming (Doubled: and $1.09), and in such handsome publi as T 4, by N. Hudso: A. Stokes Company. $5.00), and The ug Book, by Mary . with over one hundred and fifty illustra. color (Frederick A. Stokes Company). In udies in Put s illustrations by Peter Newell, is fanny, ry by Ernest r'sSons. $1.25). ay ss author of /or (Doubleday, P: Study Shakesp Moore (Frederick ure craze departacat Miss Myrtle Reed's ral histor nam's Sons), wi and prepares one for Monarch, the Big ‘Thompson Seton (Charles Se Garden and How It Grew, by Frances Duncan (The Cen- tury Company. $1.25), is a nature book for y verts, and Ked Hu and Brothers) is a novelty, bein stories by Charles A. Eastman, a native Sioux. In the pocts’ corner we come across a collection of Poems and Verses, by Mary Mapes Dodge (The Century Company. $1.20); Sem- and Other Plays ford Dargan (Bren- Lyrics of Jey, by Frank Dempster Sherman n, Mifflin and Company. $1.00); The Florentines, Maurice V. Samuels (Brentano's); The Kubai of a Persian Kitten, containing some of Oliver Herford’s cleverest whimsicalities (Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.00); The Garden of Years and Other Poems, being a final collec- Mary's tion of Guy Wetmore Carryl's verse (G. P. Putnam's Sons), (Continued on second page following.) Can You Shave? Rud a litt ‘3in One"* on your razor strop wll leather becomes soft and lable ; draw razor blade tween thumb and finger molstened with “31n One"; then strop. The razor cuts § times as easy and clean; holds the edge longer. “A Razor Saver for" Every Shaver” which gives the scientific reasons, and a f generous trial bottle sent ree, Write to-day. @. W, COLE Co, ig2Weshiegten tile Bite, ew York.