Life — August 31, 1905 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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“LF E> + Bat” Masterson, when he was Sheriff of Dodge and before, and if a somewhat bloody, is none the less a thoroughly engrossing volume, The actiol rest hort story may center either upon character, upon of upon tie more or less skillful play with a situation in itself eitt and the nineteen stories which aprobadle or impossible W.S. Gidley publishes in A Dicker im Souls belong to the latter order, Most of them are based upon a potentially effective idea, but 9 y is so great between the indicated horse-power of these ly deve ped that one doubts if the collection will © go." A short stery which does not work out well, however, has the nded cna advamtage that it is soon done with, whereas a novel { fantastic idea which mis s fire isa serious matter to readers with conse tious scruples against turning back from the literary plow. The Storm of London is a story which such steadfast persons will do weil not to begin, It seems to have been suggested by Carlyle’ say ing that *‘clothes have Je men of us; they are threatening to nly s or might be make clothes screens of us," and d ribes London society sudd: deprived of clothing, a subject which might be humore risqué, but which IL, Dicksberry has made dull, ‘The underlying spirit of Black Ring, thing for which most of us have an occasional relish, A story of a is that of good, wholesome, old-fashioned melodrama, a ded valley in the ** Dutch belt” of shin placesa tritl althe customs, the book is both a vivid picture and an entertaining story, | L. Pattee’s novel, 7he House of the | nsylvania, well written, | | ned to introduce descriptions of local Heretofore, as the author of Good Form sor Men feelingly points out, “the great majority of books upon social convention have been BUT LET US KNC 1y YOU'RE OUT OF IDRAS HOW TO ENTERTAIN FRIENDS, Tht LOOKING POR SOMETHING TH NOVEL AND AMAKT, GIVE A LUNCH ON A TROLLEY CAK PENDER, ET no nirer of Maurice Hewlett miss the lat nd in many tful of his writi 1 thee ary Italy with lovable Francis Strelley and V hers and most innocent he most de /Errant, To wander on the op: gh eightee Quixotic, bung! f phil inia, f the worldly fom of their f which one is v cs Swinburn Cross Curr ed in the tion 5 for while fa set of fi of English, a situ often capit ed by hi ciently tangled and cobwe a watery characters alreai by ist upby th sofold L told by correspondence, and the realistic ¢ us ly Midhurst’s letters will t the patience of more than the 1 grandsons to whom they ldressed. Mr. Alfred Henry Lew has command upon occasion of a style at once controlledly lurid and effectively rough-hewn, a style which is ‘YOUR HONOR, I WILL DEPOSIT A FEW HUNDRED DOLLAR MILLS ideal for the treatment of such matter as he has todeal within 7he FOR FINES. MY CHAUFFEUR CAN'T RUN LESS THAN FIFTY MIL Sunset Trail, ‘This isa series of incidents taken from the career of AN HOUR, AND IT’S A BEASTLY ANNOYANCE TO COME HEAI EVERY that equally lurid, ro gh-hewn and effective American citizen, Mr. TIME WE'RE ARRESTED.” comicbooks.com