Life — July 20, 1905 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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88 is summer again in the book world: the season of the y dog-star, when the news-agent in the parlor car distributes pale pink stories bound in shades of green. Booth , The Beautiful Lady, is a bit of confectionery which will thoroughly please such rkington’s summer stor palates as incline to pure sugar, pink tinged and flavored with ah of bitter almond It covers the adventures, the love and the renunciation of an Italian gentleman of t sappy soul, who tells } ate English, and makes the tender-hearted want to ad and say “ good de a somewhal xis own story in Italian- ie. , The Ga ly order. We say div- nestic economy of our ck London's summer vol ne, is also, dis: ngly enough, on the cs ly because in the ary kitchen we cannot afford to have one of the meat taffy. The Gany istrated into novel size, It consists of a good ¢ cooks pulli is a short story extra- scrip- tion of a prize-fight, and an introduction and an ending th. is barely poss‘ would commend it to Sunday-school librarians. It gle that Mr. London wrote it, nc it was in him and had to come out, but because he ht it might sell. because thor J. Storer Clouston, the author of the amusing Adven- tures of M. d'Haricot, has spun another web of fun and of The Lunatic at Large, wherein an nonsense in f s story sufferin: from a temporary loss of memory, is confined in an asylur a phy to have taken him abroad. Mr. Clousto: Englishmar sician wh ) Was supposed is a clever farceur who knows how to make the personalities of his ers cover the absurdities of their actions. ara ames A The informal history of the Jay B. Scherer has written under the titleof Yo: new and very happy popular handling of the subject, quite free from conventional dates and details, but givin excellent notion of the successive influences which ts legend- anese which J ng Japan isa have gone to the education of the race nder the tute ge ary childhood, its adolescence of China and its later course in Western learning Curly, Tale of the Arizona Desert, by Roger Pocock, differs from the penny dreadful of boy- hood’s beloved memory much as an apartment differs from a flat spirited half-tone rly b san art nouveau cove illustrations, the best of print and paper, yet the cruel red man, the boy heroine, the gentlemanly bandit and the pervasive villain arranged on the old familiar plan. Curl novel de luxe and recalls the happy days when Ra tlesnake Liz lived on Pizen Spider Creek re is a di The short stori which Rex E. B very diverting reading, perhaps less on account of the stories themselves than because of the wonder- s—mining and Al skan yarns CA. “WHAT'S YOUR PULL NAME, “GPORGE HENRY PERCY DAVID WENTERSMITH, “ONL L GUESS THAT'S WHY YOU WEIGH MORE'S 1 bO, FOUGHT YOURE LITTLER.” GEORGIE 2” ful vocabulary, the brceziness and the originality in the line of metaphor of Bill Joyce, who tells some of the best ter than his yarns, but together of them Bill is really be} they are good company peal toa quieter taste. They are by Car- es is another collection of short stories which te Goodloe, and represent the gleanings of the author froma summer spent at an outpost of the Canadian North- gleanings which she knows how to present in effect- J entertaining form. J.B. Kerjoot. By Booth Tarkington, (McCl Company.) The Game, By Jack Lo! Macmillan Company. $1.50.) don. (Th Verse Japan. Vy James A $4.50.) Lurdners, Vy Rex E. Reich, (McClure, Phil aston, (Brenta Scherer, Ph.D, (The J. B. Lippincott Company, Phi ny, Boston. $1.50.) and Company. $4.50.) 1 the Foot af the Kockies, My Carter Goodloe, Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50 Outcast Dog: TiS WORLD 18 TOO MUCH FOR ME. I'M LOOKING FOR ach publishes in Pardners are 4 quiet rLAce To DIR, Outcast Cat wi y DON'T YOU GO OVER ON THE STEPS OF THE 5. P. BUILDING? NO ONE WILL NOTICE YOU THERE. 4