Life, 1905-02-09 · page 14 of 22
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This is a book review section from *Life* magazine discussing recent fiction and literary works. The main cartoon, captioned "EDDA: WHAT DID DR. DIN MEAN WHEN HE SPOKE OF THAT 'VAST WASTE OF HUMANITY'?" with response "BACHELORS, OF COURSE, DEAR," is a contemporary joke about unmarried men—playing on the era's social anxiety about bachelorhood as wasteful or socially undesirable. The reviews discuss popular novels of the period, including works set during the French Revolution and stories about American widows abroad. The text references literary critics like James Huneker and W.J. Henderson, discussing their musical and literary commentary. The overall tone is satirical—typical of *Life*'s editorial voice—gently mocking both contemporary literature and social conventions of the day. The page reflects early 20th-century attitudes toward marriage, literature, and respectability.
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TE LATEST COOKS) WEN JOUNSON’S romance of the Reign of Terror, /1 (He of Liberty, is as rit and dramatic int ume ry of considerable intrins but, except to a generation that has he Faubourg St. Antone never enterec with Charles Dickens, it is a second steeping of the tea whose strength and fragrance have been distilled into an- other cup. Nicolle, indeed, is a most an little heroine, and the touch of eynie realism with which the story 1 effes hu tive, ends is intensely modern le of Mr. Johnson's tum- the rum brils awakens other me: ies, and how oh arge and he ve known Madame De- nant, The Ven- can we, Ww lieut geance, shudder at his pallid Louisen, ughter of the Guillot orchestra of the local critics Huneker is the clarinet a Mr. W. J. Henderson the tuba, and these who read and enjoyed Mr, Hune- ker's Overtones last spring should not miss Mr, Henderson's Modern Musical Drift, if only for mate of Richard Strauss therein pub- lish To Mr. Hur melodious interpretation, wh sake of the esti- eker's soarin: moment en least musical reader to sense the imaginative pars Henderson fur dise of the elect, M nishes the vom-pak accompaniment that brings us back to earth The young American widow, rejoi er freedom and determined to ing i exploit it abroad, is now a popular nd has furnished an entertaining basis for subject with the writers of fictio and clever stories. The several ligh latest of these and, next tod Woman’ Ill, one of the most readable, is by Emily Post, and is called The F7/ of a Moth, It gives some very tt life pictures of French, German glish hospitality. 1. Cleveland, Jr., in A Néght with Alessandro, has done with historical von Li Per well-known formula, two teaspoonful equal one ox, has at last been paral- leled, No Gentleman of France s romance what He ebig does with the live stock o! and the dling in The House the Red Robe ever killed so many — son, isa book which should make any braves, rescuce foilec cued and foiled by this « one ny \ new edition of Edward Everett -LIFE- so many villains as are killed, ress and healthy nt in the Florence Wolf Under — the United $ th tes, Edward Kirk Raw. y hasa huge boy happy. The average be ite for facts, for nd for the sea, and Professor iny maidens, ¢ appe hero in this courage the Medici, Rawson's book is packed full of the all three 1 aye wherewithal to satisfy es. . B. Kerfoot. Hale's Memories of a Hundred Years, *°8* J.B. Kerf with several additional chapters, is a (The Century Company, $1.50 be worth calling the attention of Modern Musical Drift, Wy W, J, Henderse whe those t from the harvest field of the p sometimes more meaningful than the 4,1 dfs’ bound sheaves « dir will fi ) such personal gleani ny scattered ears, remind- agmans, Green and Company. $4.20.) The Flight of a Moth. Wy Emily Post. (Dodd, aastare Me ICompany. $1.0.) 1 Night with Aletsandro. By T. Cleveland, y Holt and Company. $1.25.) history. Here they Uemories of a Hundred Ye By F Everett Hale. (The Macmillan Company The First Stone. Wy W.T, Washburn ers of other days and older standards, — Fenno and Company.) of hopes long since re habit to tolerance. The First Stone is a volume of short. stories by W. T. Washburn, which may safely be left 1. For unr while honors id nin may be s to bee the series of catch-as- eatch-can encounters between the uthor and > tricky opponents, the mixed metaphor and the in- volved sen- tence, the struggle is not in itself sufficiently exciting to ake the lume worth while. y Twenty Famous Na- val Rattles, by the super- intendent of the naval records of T ttles, By Edward and Company wenty Fame Kirk Rawson, lized and turned nd hatreds long since turned — $3.00) ——_ ps = agora Edna: WHAT DIN DR. DIX MEAN WHEN HE SPOKE OF THAT "VAST WASTE OF HUMANITY" ? Maud : BACMELORS, OF COURSE, DEAR. comicbooks.com