Life — June 15, 1905 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Novels for Your Vacation Bag Just Ready Each, $1.50 Jack London’s The Game vivid, and, like ‘The Call of the Wild,” appealing to the primitive passions. Foxeroft Davis’s Mrs. Darrell It seems to be a man’s knowledge and e: 's method of narration, but it isa womd rd edition. rience and a 's love-story.”” Miss Robinsis A Dark Lantern y, London, seems to find in it “the influence son of love in the case a woman more than steady, sensible, and well-bred, when thrown into of a Real Man.” Robert Herrick’s The Memoirs of an American Citizen Human, alive and sincere, by far the best and most intere: ng 1 yet written by the author of * The Common trations. Barbara’s At the Sign of the Fox isa novel of the same type as her delightful * {a Commuter’s Wife,” John Heigh’s The House of Cards is described by the Eventing Post as “* the most successful of the recent attempts to put on paper the personality of the modern business buccaneer.” The Garden now in its cleventh edition All are published by The Macmillan Company, 66 5th Ave., N.Y. Of the making of many books there is no end Life has done well. therefore, to select from the mass of books issued during the past twelve months, a list of fifty for the guidance of its readers. We take pride in bringing this list to your attention (see page 712 of this issue), for out of the fifty books the following six (6) are published by us: Religion, A Criticism and Forecast Little Citizens The Picaroons The Mountains The Silent Places Cabbages and Kings This unsought tribute is the best possible recommendation for McClure books and the McClure policy. There is one book on our list published too late to be in- cluded in Life’s selection, that you should not fail to get for your summer reading. This is Booth Tarkington’s new romantic novelette in the vein of "Monsieur Beaucaire," The Beautiful Lady This exquisite little romance, the scene of which is laid in Paris, Naples and Venice of to-day, is a thing of positive beauty. It is a very attractive book, too, in the making. Seven illustrations by Blendon Campbell. Cloth, 12mo, $1.25. 44 East. 23d St. New York McClure, Phillips COMPLETE IN TEN SUPEAD VOLUMES © I’ you are a lover of Nature in any form— bird life, forest life, animal life, water life, or insect, flower or fungus—we should like to send you without charge, an elaborate booklet descriptive of “The Nature Library” with sam- ple photographic color-plates, specimen _ text pages, etc., & full particulars of bindings, prices, terms, etc. Please write very plainly. Your name in full spatieaursareneaeemees ess Your mail address with t number... cece ee eees a ind state. . Then tear out this page and forward to us, or drop u Uoning Lirr,and we will send you, postage fully pre 1¢ booklet here described postal men- d, the hand- DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO, 133 East 16th Street New York City i|Henry Holt & Company, Noteworthy Recent Fiction Colton’s BELTED SEAS A remarkable, humorous tale. Lije says the charac to whom the Captain tells his yarn are “worthy of Dick *“What Jacobs has done for the done for the Y: $1.50 anza (just published). <-footer, proprictor of a mush- | room farm in the ¢: of Kentucky, and an unsophis- ticated Venus, who is an heiress and lives on a nearby da to these a clandestine correspondence, who hold weird meetings in the mushroom dashing city girl as dea ex machina, hall a d important and amusing char. .and Pap, Pup and | Pete, and you have thejelements of this vi very unique book, original, ¥ | Robert, Bridges (forn Weekly or-atudied desi gn. of life itself. She has . Profoundly true... . The wi J. B. Kerfoot, pre Literary novel, rich in beauty and interest. the tragic the soul of a real poet. . an almost lyric prose.” Williamson's PRINCESS PASSES Boston Transcript : “The authors have duplicated their suc: cess with ‘The Lightning Conductor.’ . . unusually absorbing.” 29 West 234 St. Now York, comicbooks.com~