Life — April 6, 1905 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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SASH ALIF EGR by Samuel M. Gardenhire, isa remark- ably complex drama of present-day # New York life, thought out and fitted to- gether with much skill, Plots, it is true, are rather out of fashion, yet which deserves praise, and one whose many characters are substantial and indie vidual enough to make it their story in- stead of being its pu enjoy these excellences entails much delving, Nevertheless, to for Mr. Gardenhire has a way of burying his subject in his comments on it, and, like many another user of words, is only at his best when he forgets his mediu! Asalmost every one knows, Sherlock Holmes as come back. The thirteen additional ad- ventures which have been chronicled by Sir Conan Doyle and are now collected in The Return of Sherlock Holmes are authoritatively declared to be a final appearance, but Author= ity is a lady and sometimes chan ges her mind, However, the stories hold out far better than t be expected, and Sherlock 1 s youth and hi s both powers as an entertainer. Morley Roberts is ra satility. he followed his collection of sea tales, The lly proving his ver- It was something of a surprise wh Promotion of the Admiral, with that striki social study, Rache! Marr. serious Now hie follows work Lady ety comedy-extravaganza of lly described It is true th with s*“sparkling with epigram, tthe text of this skit is so bright that it is hard to keep one’ t on the story, but then as the story is excuse for the text, this is really an advanta The Girl of La Gloria ist tale by titleof a Texan with a little tragedy as old as migration and conq that of a child c is loved by ama Clara Driscoll, dealing mixed blood who loves and The n of the dominant race. fact that the story necessarily “ends badly, joined to the fact that t even her comma author's skill and dof English are limited, holds out little hope for the novel, 1c Wedding of the Lady of Lovell, by Una L, Silberad, is a volume of such short stories asone is not surprised to find written by the author of The Lady of Dreams, They blend a certain old-world romance with a vivid handling of actualities, and the result—short stories with much of the ft of le; ling and quality ends—is unusual and pleasant. One seldom meets with ghost stories nowa- They went out of fashion when the occult became a fad, and since Mr, Kipling days, wrote They, it is the height of bad form for any author to say what he means in treating of the supernatural, M, R. James's Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, however, are the old-fashioned article, the kind that people read aloud evenings to scare the children and then feel creepy going up the stairs. ‘Thecrisp, dashing and effective stories of the New York Fire Department, which Harvey J. O'Higgins publishes in The Smoke Eaters, is another example of the good things which come out of the Nazareth of journalism, There is a long line of such work by Riis, Davis, Duncan and others, from which, some day, one hopes to see made an eclectic collec- tion of Metropolitan sketches. Among the Spring books one of the most at least from the outside, isa treatise by the celedrated German historian, Karl Lamprecht, called Ivi2¢ Zs History? But the layman, although he be of an inquiring mind alluring, and indifferently serious, willdo well to keep such ideas of historical scienceas he may have rather than risk losing them in whelming and Teutonic abstruseness of the the over- professor's analysis, Sitence of Mrs, Harr Gardenhire, (Harper and Brothers. Doyle. (McClure, Phi nd Compan: By A. Conan Morley Re $1.50.) By Clara Driscoll. (G. % By Una . Silberad. pany. Ry MR. ard Arnold, London, England, gents) Harvey J. O'Hi $1.50.) Lamprecht Long- (The OUR ADVICE COLUMN. of my best girl refuse to allow her dt is surrounded by all What can I d your case isa sad without hope. Th best way is to take one, but it ‘our courage in ly alto- Start right in to make love as If you do this in the rest of the family that t your hands and ignore the fam gether. if no one was about the right way will get so Il have to quit Tam making love to a beautiful young lady who is living with her married sister. Last night it was dark in the hall, and by mistake I kissed the ma: Do you think that it is my duty to go frankly to the husband and tell him my mistake? I want to do the right thing, Don’t let a little thing like that dis- turb you. If the lady you kissed is as pretty as her sister, her husband probably wouldn't like to be told you had kissed her. If she isn't pretty, he would think you were an ass to make a mistake like that, even in the dark, and then tell about it again. The best thing you can do is to go to the lady you kissed, and when alone with her, ask her But too homely to get any good advice from, advice. if she is then go to her sister and make up for lost time. My parents, who have just come to live with us, ing my tworyear-old baby. 1 don’t want dyer Tam at a loss how to act. What would you suggest ? to offend them Go to some reliable foundlings’ hos- pital and hire another baby. It is the special prerogative of every grandma and grandpa to spoil at least ong baby, and almost any kind of a baby, except your own, will answer the purpose. It may cost you something, but it will yin the en We Say It Again. IFE has tried to make it clear that in criticising @ Jew, or a collec- tion of Jews, it was not criticising Ae Jews asa race. The writer of the fol- lowing inquiry does not appear to have grasped that fact. If you were fighting a Baptist, w depict him diving head first into a buck you always. of water? In reply to this query, we would answer emphatically, Yes! if there were no more graphic way of portray- ing a band of Baptists who were in- juring the public and attempting to suppress dramatic criticism in Lire. The Theatrical Trust happens to be composed exclusively of Jews. If our correspondent will show us any more graphic way of typifying them than with the worst racial and facial char- acteristics of the worst members of the Jewish race, we shall be glad to act on i If, in the same w. any American is offended because we portray Uncle Yankee face, and will suggest any better way of representing him, we shall also be glad toact on that sugges- tion. And we shall also be glad to receive any other suggestions which may be improvements upon the con- ventional depiction of various types. s suggestion. Sam with the sharp comicbooks.com