Life, 1905-02-02 · page 9 of 40
Life — February 2, 1905 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page is **primarily an advertisement**, not political satire. The main content is a full-page ad for the "Angelus" piano attachment manufactured by Wilcox & White Co. of Meriden, Connecticut (established 1876). The ad explains how this mechanical device allows people to play piano "with the aid of the Angelus" — essentially an early player piano system using push-buttons and levers operated by the left hand. The advertisement emphasizes convenience and mastery without traditional skill. The left column contains "Books Received," a standard Life magazine feature listing newly published volumes. There is **no political cartoon or satire** visible on this page — it's a straightforward product advertisement marketed to early 20th-century consumers interested in affordable mechanical music performance.
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rth he he n- Ie e Books Received. H NRY WILLIAM ELSON’S //istory of the| ed States, a comprehensive work in ore | ompact volume of nine hundred pages (The Macmillan Chmpony. $1.75). A series of historical sketches by , Spaniards in| Willian) Henry Johnson, called 7% y merica (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, $ ud How America Became a Nation, by ke Ginn and Company). Among books for boys. 1 story of Kobert E. Lee by James Rarnes, 1 Son of Light Horse Harry (Marper and $1.25), a tale of adventure in New Mexico t tin Charles A. Curtis, U . called Cap- he Navajos (Marper and Brothers. $1.50), Mississippi tale called Runuing the River by ( Cary t ton (A, S. Barnes and Company). Abin Farwell Brown publishes a volume of stories for I alled The Flower Princess (Houghton, Mif- A Company. $1.00}, and S. R. Crockett one of t ries from Scott’s novels called Red Cap Tales (The Macmitlan Company, $2.00). In the realm of ‘ Asalim, by Mark Ashton, is another tale of Jules in the days of Jezebel and Elijah (L. C. Pag pany. $1.50). The Sign of Triumph, by rd Si story of the Children’s Crusade Page and Company. $1.50). Uther and kk by Warwick Deeping, a romance of the legemlary times of King Arthur (The Outlook Com- pans! and The Story of King Sylvain and Queen vens, is ti an idyl in quaint English, by Margaret Sher- woo! (fhe Macmillan Company). Demetrius C, Boul- ef has written a volume upon Belgian Life in Town 3. P. Putnam's Sons, $1.20), Sarah E. True- snd writes of Toms and Tabbies in Cats by the Way 1B, Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. $1.25), fie Micmac, by $, Carlton, is a nature-book story Nova Scotia swamps (Henry Holt and Company. $ Among the poets Wilbur D, Nesbit has a new © of his verses of childhood, called The Trait to / (The Robbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis). or the series on Our European Neigh- Thomas Hardy, a satire on bombastic drama, called Lie Dynasts,@ Drama of the Napoleonic Wars (The Marmillan Company. $1.50), and Holman F, Day, Pine Tree Ballads, a new collection of Maine | vr and character verses called Av O' Ktaadn | ul, Maynard and Company), Harry Graham's representative Men (Fox, Duffield and Company. Simi has some good laughs in it, The purveyor of we have always with us, There is The Mother's val, by Emelyn 1. Coolidge, M.D. (A, S. Barnes mpany. $1.00). Business Education and sancy, by the late Charles Waldo Haskins (Harper rothers, $2.00). Conguering Success, a collec: talks by William Matthews, LL. D., author of ¢ Along in the World (Houghton, Miflin and iny. $1.5¢), and The Blue Grass Cook Book, by rie C. Fox (Fox, Duffield and Company. $1.50) Nd Maid’s Corner is a little volume of pleasant unent and soliloquy by Lillie Hamilton French = 1,00), and The Shape of a W, Peat: Macmillan Company). Crozier’s General Ar= ster of American f. by William Armstrong Crozier, FR. eference book whose silences are eloquent (Fox, nd Company. $3.00) Century r, a little book of ghost stories, by F milies entitled to bear | OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. Poems of William Morris, Edited by Percy R. Col- (Thomas Y. Crowell and Company. $2.00.) Civics, By Frank David Boynton. (Gina and Company. $1.10.) crea Santa Claus? By Jacob A. Riis. (The Mace in Company. 75¢.) foentures of Pinocchio. From the Italian of C, Collodi. (Gina and Company.) Developments, By Edmund Robertson and A. Wollaston. (Brentano's. $1.25.) = Your Piano -LIFE- = How You CanPl ed with the aid of the See how conveniently everything is arranged for the natural position of the two hands when the performer is seated at the instrument No. 1—The little PUSH-BUTTONS operated by the left hand, for softening the Bass or the Treble of the piano independently of each other, (Patented.) No. 2 is the ACCENT LEVER, to render EMPILASIS to melody notes as occasion demands. (Patented.) No: :-ROLL LEVER, to return the music sheet. The INDICA- to set to the proper Time to play the music sheet as indicated. No. 5 is the Lever for operating the LOUD PEDAL of the piano, No. 6 is the wonderful Phrasing Tablet. (Vatented.) ‘This Phrasing Lever is invaluable, and the most effective device ever placed upon an instrument of this eh r, Complete control and mastery of the piano is obtained by the above de Notched Parallel Uprights permit raising or lowering of horizontal row of d Fingers—chus exactly meeting, ight of any piano keyboard ‘The Angelus is responsive to every shade of feeling or expression, yet it is built to stand years of service, like the piano it so completely masters for you. The Angelus is the pioneer of all piano-playing devices. Purchased by Ko; y and the World's Greatest Musicians, Send for (free) handsome det and mam mearest agen THE WILCOX & WHITE CoO. MANUFACTURE ESTABLISHED 1876 MERIDEN, CONN,., U.S.A, Motor and Metal Tubes ividual keys, Pedals (partly cat off) to transmit air pressure to the q Venknttibebicire te Her Wits, Epigrams edited by G. F. Grammar Schoot Arithmetic (H. M, Caldwell.) Ph.D. (Ginn and ackerounds of Literature. By Hamilton W, Mabie Elementary Woodworking. Vy Edwin W, Foster. (Gina New edition, (The Macmillan Company, $2.00.) and Company. 754 1 Cynic’s Meditaté Publishing Company.) Phases, Mazes and Crazes of Antrim. (George W. Jacobs and Company, Philadelphia.) ! Guide to Parsifal. Wy Richard Aldrich. (Oliver Dit- son Company. $1.00.) Lessons in Music Form, By Percy Goetschins, (Oliver Ditson Company. $1.25.) The Symphony Since Beethoven. By Felix Weingartner. William Shakespeare, Poet, Dramatist end Man, By (Oliver Ditson Company. $1.00.) Hamilton W, Mabie, New edition. (The Macmillan Com- The Greck Pocts, an Anthology. By Nathan Haskell pany. $1.00.) Dole. (T. ¥. Crowell and Company. $2.00.) Hy David Eugene Smith, mpany.) (The Dod, Elements of Botany, Wy Joseph Y. Rergen, (Ginn and us. By Walter Pulitze pany. $1.30) Wagner Lyrics, For tenor or soprano. (Oliver Ditson any, Boston. $1.50 each.) Ten Hungarian Rhapsodies. By Franz Liss, (Oliver Ditson Company. $1.50.) Parables of Life. By Hamilton W. Mabie, New illus: trated edition, (The Macmillan Company. $1.50.) By Minna Thomas comicbooks.com