Life — June 8, 1905 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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684 Wanted. T° the weary, careworn traveler, on the Life, ns the philanthropic sign-board with its remedies for strif “up grade” known as re are Vim and Force and Health Flakes; there are Kush and Crush and Zest— But the one we're really wail isa brain food known as Rest, suffering and strangely willing to be imposed upon, lone of the things that seem to support the charge is the uncomplaining manner in which dollar and fifty. cc being defrauded of seventy-five cents’ worth of the pur- Why, one isinclined to ask, chould we jail the man who steals our purse, and leave at liberty him who filches our ideals ?- Take, for instance, Th 4 j © of dialogue de societée 2 Anthony Hope, conceivably calculated to delight the rising generation. Why, just as the young and rc tinue to pay a for current fiction, and submit to chased ilusion by the illustrations der is beginning to believe in the prettiness of Pol the jauntiness of Jack, should a heartless artist be mitted to blurt out the deplorable truth ? The publication, as 1 Diary jrom Dixie, of the journa Mrs. Mary Boykin Chestnut. is an addition of some va tu the contemporary comment of Civil War times. Of continued narrative quality, the diary has small nd cach day is so wholly concerned with its own n and its own interests as to quite preclude continuous read- ing; but it is written by a bright woman in the whirl of things social and political, and offers rich browsing to th seeker after local color, corroborative historical detail or romantic suggestion. Andy Adams, author of The Log of a Cowboy, and later of a more imaginative, but less satisfactory piece of fiction, A Texas Matchmaker, has rather to his steers, for as a good cattleman he »horical connection with returned to his muttons—or would doubtless disclaim even a me sheep. His new volume, The Outict, iike his first, is a splendid description of a cattle drive, vivid, well written, and, despite its similarity of theme, encroaching not at all upon the trail of the former story The experiences of Doctor Tom in reforming a moon- mountains are recommended The story is ral of the minor characters are well shine county in the Tennesse to seckers for novel sensations in fiction. crisply told, and se presented, but the hero is a wonderful combination of Sunday-school exemplar and dime-novel terror, and the heroine was made for him. The tale, in short, is a play, in which the supers are interesting and the tragedians funny Lee In the half dozen stories which E. S in The Courtship of a Carejul Man, we are privileged to look at some of the unconsidered incidents of Metropolitan fe through the spectacles of a humorously discriminating ptimist. So wholly the manner and the mental attitude of the author, that Martin publishes indeed, does their flavor depend upon “stories " is something of a misnomer for these papers, which are rather quizzical commentaries on the philosophy of living, delightfully whimsical inconsequences that are yet consequent romance of Russian Alaska under Alexander Baranof in eginning of the nineteenth century, The Way oj the North, did it depend cither upon the author's presentation of the local conditions, or on his Warren Cheney's handling of historical material, would be wholly colorless. But while one is never ve conscious of Alaska, and chiefly reminded of the Russian occupation by the cobble- stone pavement quality of the names, one likes the mem- bers of the little Sitka group, and enjoys following their fortunes Edward Z. Corporations Pools and ch of which Ripley's volume upon Trusts, contains cighteen chapters, presents, by means of articles by authoritative writers, public documents or court decisions, the facts in a specific case illustrative of one of the various forms of combina- tempted during os, legal or illegal, which have been the commercial struggle for monopolistic book is intended as one of a series of text-boo! economics, but it makes most informing reading for anyone interested in the very live question with which it deals. JB. Kerjoot Company. $1.50.) sof Polly, My elen Rowland, (The B d Taylor 1 Diary from Dixie. My Mary Boysin Chestnut. Edited by Isabella D, Martin and Myrta L. Avary.D. nd Company. $2.50.) The Ou Ry Andy Adams ghton, Mi Min and Company, $t.g0.) Tom. By John Williams Streeter. (The Macmillan Company. Courtship of a Careful Man, My FE. S, Martin, (Harper and Brothers, $2.25.) The Way of the North Com Ry Warren Cheney, (Doubleday, Page and Ry Edward Z. Ripley. {Gina and Company Frightened Away. RS. VON BLUMER: We can’t get any guests to stay here with that new butie: Vow Biumer: Way, I thought he wa “He is. That's the trouble. tip of less than ten dollars.”* s magnificent. No one dares give hima Intuition. H My gracious! If you are so certain that the boat you bet on is going to be beaten, why don’t you hedge? Sue: Ob! If I did that, she'd win. comicbooks.com