Life, 1905-12-07 · page 13 of 60
Life — December 7, 1905 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and book promotions** rather than political satire. The dominant visual element is a caricatured face labeled "Have you Lost the Key?" promoting James Montgomery Flagg's book *"If: a Guide to Bad Manners"* (75 cents). The exaggerated facial features and crude drawing style appear to mock someone, though the specific target is unclear from the image alone. The rest of the page advertises holiday books from publishers Moffat, Yard & Company, Life Publishing Company, and J.B. Lippincott Company. These include *A Corner in Women* by Tom Masso (Life's managing editor), Aesop's Fables, The Christy Book, and various other titles with brief promotional quotes. The page functions as a **book advertisement section** rather than editorial satire.
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-LIFE:- > feet MOFFAT. YARD — «UWDENIABLY THE HIT OF THE SEASON"? MOFFAT. YARD & COMPANY & COMPANY oun- a 1 A 5 “Any time you want a roaring good time, The whole volume is a delight to the eye read this book.”"—Watchman, Boston. and the mind.”—Washington Star. 4 ° A philosopher who in many ways, now with “ A tonic good to take at any time and in any placid sarcasm, now with bustling burlesque, zed doses.” —St. Louis Republic parody and extravaganza, now with grave-seem- ing narrative, sets forth a sound and kind but “This is the kind of nonsense book that is unhackneyed way of looking at things and e worth having.”"—New York Tribune. people. He is a scholar as well as a wit.”—New a4 ork Sun. “| By TOM MASSON, LIFE ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BROOKS PUBLISHED IN YEARS. The cover design and frontispiece by CHARLES DANA GIBSON, zo illustrations by Gibson, Gilbert, Crosby, Clay, Kemble, Flagg, Blashfield, Hanna and others, i net. (Postage 19 cents.) sign - — —— — the THE EDITION OF THE PR T AND THE “THE GREAT ART BOOK OF THE SEASON" FICTION ne ns THE CHRISTY BOOK STORK'S NEST 3 gee ‘ By J. BRECKENRIDGE ELLIS SOP'S FABLES Dravngin Back ant Wie Re eee (MODERN EI N) ; SHARDLER'C , thoro: original as "Stor ee 8 , By HOWARD: CHANDLER CHRISTY Intern adver tags and the sonchosioa ia very dramatic ® Illustrated in color and line by Containing, in addition to many others, 17| Ilustrated by Elizabeth Taghe 315007 ex J. M. Condé drawings never before published anywhere. THE LARKINS WEDDING “No other will compare with this."—Pittsburgh “Shows Christy at his best. It isone of the choicest volumes of "A Setighidar Recrto ereey te Chronicle. any sort that the holiday season will have to offer." —Chicago Record | ligencer. all EXAMINE IT! Hees. “SHfumor, humacity, cheery optimism and sound sense."—Chicage Daily ) $2.00 net. (Postage 16 cents) | A Distinee Hit! Boxed, $3.50 net. (Expressage extra) 24 Illustrations, $1.00 can @ _ sen ‘ aa } sat - HOLIDAY BOOKS Newport An Orchard Princess kel Our Social Capital By Rate Henry Barsour - Mas, Jous Kix Van Rensseare This new love-story of Mr. Barbour's has all the charm, cleverness and origi- one sumptuous volume embodies not nality that made Kitty of the Roses” aly acareful narrative of a famous +0 successful. torical city, but it constitutes the first <'Ti is besposatble be deearibe li cobaee: fashionable metropolis, ia its most bril- eroine this pleasant author delights in Nathese ts only one Newport in the | ‘Teating.”"—Anenita Herald. world, and this book presente its varied Mlustrated in color, with page designs Sea eeyasoeces wish thes hi in tint, by Jastss Moxtcomeny Fracc. Inerary and artiste skill. | With feonti Bound in cloth, with portrait cover, in e piece in color by Henry Hutt, many ornamental box, $2.00. Mlustrations in photogravure and double- tone and from drawings by Edward ses Stratton Holloway. ted on Arnold's hand-made paper, especially made for this edition. Boun in two shades of genuine English buck- ram, with design in gold, Quarto, Pet £0) ‘oo net iPRab Reegars Per copy, $50.00 net. Miss Cherry-Blossom of Tokyo By Jons Lutner Loxe Have you — An especially beautiful edition of this popular novel of a popular writer and Lost the Mey? Don't you care—get somebody to give you a copy of “IF: a Guide to Bad Manners—that will bust the padlock. It's by James Montgomery Flagg. and it's 75c. LiFe PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West S1sr Sraccr, New York AN IDEAL GIFT Saddle and Song A collection of the best verse about the horse, by noted writers in the Eng- lish language, besides many | poe which should’ be just as well known. An appropriate present for any one who has a fondness for horses or for good poetry. Illustrated. 12 mo. Cloth. $1.50 net. Postage 13 cents extra. J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA co-author of the famous Japanese play, She Darling of the Gods? On each page ofthe book, (rom corer to cover, are Japanese pictures printed in the tints of ald Japan. Nine full-page illustrations in colors and tints, lining papers of cherry blossoms, a cover of es- pecially characteristic design, and an ornamental box with cover printed in colors, complete one of the handsomest and most artistic holiday books of the year. Mlustrated. Ornamental Cloth, $2.50. comicbooks.com