Life, 1905-09-21 · page 16 of 26
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This page is primarily a book review section discussing recent literary works, not a political cartoon. The only illustration is titled "An Awful Moment" and depicts a domestic scene where a woman (Elsie) confronts a man about infidelity. The caption shows her demanding honesty, with his defensive response: "Honest, I was only foolin'. I thought you could run faster." The humor is a crude domestic joke playing on the man's fabricated excuse—he claims he was merely "testing" her running ability, an obviously absurd justification for suspicious behavior. This reflects early-20th-century attitudes toward marital drama and male infidelity treated as comedic material. The page otherwise reviews novels by contemporary authors including Frank Lewis Nason and Anne Douglas Sedgwick, discussing their literary merits and subject matter ranging from California irrigation stories to character psychology. There is no political satire present.
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346 NE does not often meet these days so various and so varied a company as fill the pages of Talks in a Library with Laurence Hutton; pages wherein reminiscence, anecdote, er, current com- impses of chara ment and curious information tumble none another's heels ina t edicy. The bookisone that can mpt- be opened at any page with equal relevance and closed at the end of ny paragraph with equal finality, the stream of monologue, if never Pri tarns again and again to drift on its Iternately interested and never stagnant, and one re- current, ed. amu: Two of this summer's sto: On Tybee Knoll, by and A Lynde, ¢ mes B. Connolly ‘oot for Love, by Francis 1 with the a young contra ainst unscru- ject of which Calumet K was one he carliest, as s one of the best treatments. Mr. Connolly's book tells of the log- ging venture 0 tain young tug in Savannah waters, and Mr. Lynde’s “cl of a right-of-way war in the Colorado foot-hills between a railway magnate and the civil engincer of a rival road. Both stories are readable, but both heroes are too h > for their jobs, and the success of cach is as uncc vincing as it is unearned Sturmsce, by the anonymous author of Calmire, t least two thi © usually better avoided both writers and readers, being a tel for one, and for another a di- jactic and controversial treatise in a cloak of fiction But it is seldom that any writer, with as broad and balanced an interest in the abstract sophy of life, possesses also so cile a creative gift’ and so enter- taining a power of narration, and the story of Carl Sturmsce contains too good a quality f fiction and too ics of discussions to interestin ig a condemned because these elements are mixed Calmire, which appeared a number of years ago and dealt with the subject of religion, attracted con- “Ly LF Es siderable attention and has continued to command a steady, although an popularit y unobtrusiv rmsee deals in a similar manner with the relations of man with his fellows and cs, and will doubtless re- a similar reception Frank Lewis Nason, the author of several novels, including The Vision of Elijah Berl, lately the scene of whose stories has been the mountains of California Becl's “vision” feasi- bility of irrigation in the oran belt, and the story of the vision's was th fillment shows rather tantaliz- ing fictional and dramatic possibilities, for Mr Nason, in the literary field, isa bet- 4") ter prospector than mincr. He knows auriferous gravel when he sces it, but much the dust is lost in the process of panning rQ Paths of Jud; Anne Douglas Sed, an excellent’ example of nent, by wick, is AN AWFUL MOMENT. n, a novel literary vivisee ° Elsie: Now ¥ ; Rent g CAUGHT SUE, ARK —AKE YOU REALLY GOING whose characters live in. deed, t their t ating table: their actions detailed, not that we may follow them, but that we may id motor-centers which control ONEST, | WAS ONLY FOOLS" I-1 THOUGHT You COULD KUN YASTEK nN Upc ne Oper- hich, like lite stories of coondom, their predecessors, have the two en and « ent merits of being well wri being real coon—a touch o ment, a touch of pathos, occasionally their story, for there the history of the case In 1 touch ef monkey ; st cts of this FICS selves the sub: are scarcely worthy of such time careful on, but the the operator is sufficient to excite d hold the <ittention clinic Matte Pr Talks ina Library with Lauren Recorded by Isabel Moore. (G. P Sons.) On Tybee Knoll. By J Barnes and Company. A Foot for Love bs- Merrill Compan: the interest of her audience ram's A number of essays upon various ses of American life and character mes Ii, Connolly, (A. S. p' ppear in a volume called American Francie Lynde. (The Thumb Prints; a volume which makes us regret the abandonment cf the — Sturmuce, Man and Man. Calmire. (The Macmitlan Company. The Vision of Elijah Bert. Nas $1.50.) Paths of Judy wick, (The Ce American Thumb Prints, By Kate Stephens, (The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia 94-30.) The Second Wooing of Salina Sue. Vy Ruth McEnery Stuart. (Harper and Brothers. $1.25.) y the author of aconate pamphlet, that literary d y Frank Lewi which so fitly interposed between the lay-readership of the magazine article (Little, Brown and Company, Boston and the full orders of board covers ; a volume which is not unworthy of passing sojourn on the library tabl but with scanty claims to shelf room The contains six of Ruth Mc By Anne Douglas Sedg- $1.50.) Salina Sue ery Stuart's Second Wooing of Pe, comicbooks.com