Life — December 7, 1905 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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“A NECESSITY TO MODERN MEN ANDO WOMEN” THE CENTUR Readers of LIFE will be interested especially in the following features of THE CENTURY for 1906: REALLY, IF books should be wiped out of existence, would not Christmas have to be given up? For books, for countless thousands, young and old, are the ideal gift, satisfying equally pride and taste and sentiment. And never has choice been so wide nor so delightful as now. [, Yes, do send | Me mea book... Not a bargain book, bought from a haber- © beautiful book, a book to cares peculiar, book that hath first caught your eye and fancy, written By an G Mrs. Humphry Ward’s strong novel, “ Fenwick’s author with a ten- : s Career,’’ began in November. i dasher, but a Hive, individual: then pleased your der whim, all right Oe Ne ord Would you make an ina letter to dge.| addition to home or ned Taare library of en- during value, what better than a standard biog- raphy? Andrew D. White's Autobiography is verhaps the most notable biographical work of the c nd old find it inspiring and delight- ‘0 the short life of Lincoln, y from the great ten- d Hay. @Mr. Frederick Trevor Hill’s articles on “Lin- travelers,—he can do up CHRISTMAS NUMBER The Most Superb Issue of The Century Ever Made A Christmas Gift-Book in Itself Pictures in Color Nine Complete Stories Beginning ‘Lincoln the Lawyer’? NEW SUBSCRIBERS to The Century may begin their subscriptions with January, 1906, and they will receives free of char se, on request, the December, 1995, numbers, thu volume and ig first ch Humphry Ward's novel_and Lawyer.” This offer in effect after December 1 1995. To use a subscri a Christmas gift let us send free numbers and a handsome cer Bilt. These you give at Christmas—future aumbers go direct Remit by check, draft, money-order ex- pressorder. Price $4.00 THE CENTURY CO. Union Square NEW YORK two picture galleries and coln the Lawyer,” pre- acathedral in a morning istance of pared with thea Gg “*A Diplomatic Adven- ture,” a short novel by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and one of the best that he | many eminent lawyers and old friends of Mr. Lincoln Especially happy selections for the friend who has ¢ Edith Wharton's * Italian Villas dens” and James Eugene Farmer's Versailles and the Court Under Louis XIV." Most ne fifty illustrations that beautify * Italian C ‘oduced in the colors of the laxfield Parrish. p, too, is this new record of Versai blue cloth, with seventy illustrations in tint k less pretentious in form but rich in meat Charles H. Caffin's How to Study Pictures,” just what the title would indicate. The friend who loves pictures could have no more acceptable gift. A new side of Lincoln's character, entertainingly as ever written described. GHoward Chandler Christy’s pictures, in color, of The American Girl. paintings by GA humorous serial story, “Seeing France with Uncle John,” by | the author of the “Susan @The article on Benja- miu Franklin, by John Hay, which will te printed For a man there could be no more admirable Clegg’? stories. “ Uncle Christmas remembrance than Theodore Roosevelt's s, The Strenuous Life,” and “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail” the latter an unusually Jsome book, with ninety-four illustrations by ngto: | John” is a character who will be enjoyed by all in the January Century. ederic Ren These are only a few of the many good things Of a beauty and value ou 0] jor : : : : shane Con are a deligpttal Bele Thucrbonis bound which THE CENTURY will bring you in 1906. leathe The new issues include Charles Inckens’s ‘The Chime: id Mrs. Browning's “Sonnets from the Portugu > but there are -seven others to make from, among 2 ** Poor Richard's he Rubsiy.t,” Marcus Aurelius, etc. ST. 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