Life, 1906-06-21 · page 18 of 28
Life — June 21, 1906 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily a **book recommendation list**, not a political cartoon. It's Life magazine's curated summer reading selections organized by category: Novels, Lighter Reading, Short Stories, and Works of History/Criticism. The decorative header features cherubs and clouds—standard turn-of-the-century ornamental design. The introductory text uses gentle self-mockery: the editors compare themselves to an old-fashioned lady who insists on quality ("literary cream") over modern mass-produced bestsellers, acknowledging they're "unprogressive" but defending their taste against commercially-driven literature separated from "mere literature by the centrifugal separators of department store statistics." The books listed are contemporary works by authors like Frances Hodgson Burnett, Owen Wister, and H.G. Wells—popular Edwardian literature. The satire is subtle: Life positions itself as a curator of refined taste against crass commercialism, a common pose for elite publications of this era.
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IIE, time has aga old-fashioned fo skimming-spoon and go into the literary dairy. Please don’t laugh at us for our Incss for letting the cream rise before skimming it. We know that the method is out of date; that we live in a dl by hot air, cream extracted by machinery and the best sellers differentiated from mere literature by the But we are unprogressive. We are like the dear lady who could never qui d of kerosene. We like the literary cream that gathers quietly, in cool leisure, credited influence of the mental at! tion of gravitat The following li: st twelve months and conts combine to suit your individual digestions. a rae ae ma WH NOVELS Betcnasmer, by Howard Sturgis. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) A Dark LANTERN, by Elizabeth Robins. (The Macmillan Company.) ‘Tue Destor, by Mary E. Wilkins Free- man. (Harper and Brothers.) ‘Tue Foot Errant, by Maurice lett. (The Macmillan Compan Tue House or Mirtn, by ton. (Charles Scribner's Sons.) Tur Ipters, by Morley Roberts. (1. C. Page and Compa Tue Lake, by Georg Appleton ayd Company.) Tue Moras or Marcus OrpDEYNE, by William J. Locke. (Sohn Lane.) ‘THe MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, by Robert Herrick. (The Macmillan Com pany.) Tur NoxcHatante, by Stanley Olm- stead. (Henry Holt and Company.) Tur Secret Wostax, by Eden pots. (The Macmillan Company.) A Servant or THE Pustic, by Anthony Hope. (Frederick A. Stokes Company.) Tue Wixe Press, by Anna Robeson Brown. (D. Appleton and Company.) =a — ——— LUGHTER READING ALL Tiat Was Possinte, by Howard Overing Sturgis. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) Tur Bettep S y Arthur Colton (Henry Holt and Company.) THe Conquest oF CANAAN, by Booth Tarkington. (Harper and Brothers.) Tue CLaumer, by William John Hop- kins. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) v Sy rare Overing Hew- ith Whar- Moore. (D. Phill- Sr Tue Dawn or a Frances Hodgson Burnett Tomorrow, by (Charles Scrib- ners Sons.) Tux Epcr or Crrcumsraxce, by Edward Noble. (Dodd, Mead and Cor ue Girt or THE MorNinG Star, by nistead C. Gordon. (Funk and Wag- nalls Com pany.) Tur GoupeN Fioon, by Edwin Lefevre. (McClure, Phillips and Company.) love, by Robert W. Chambers. (D. \ppleton and Company.) Lapy Battimore, by Owen Wister (The Macmillan Company.) Tue Missourtax, by Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. (Doubleday, Page and Company.) A Maker or History, by E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Little, Brown and Company.) No. 1o1, by Wymond Carey. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) Tue Rep Cravat, by Alfred Tresidder Sheppard. (The Macmillan Company.) Tue Spotters, by Rex E. Beach. (Harper and Brothers.) Srrry, by John Luther Bobbs-Merrill Compa Tue Sack Brosit Parson, by A. B Ward. (Little, Brown and Company.) Tue Sunset Tra, by Alfred’ Henry Lewis. (A. S. Barnes and Company.) Touay Carteret, by Justus Miles Forman, (Doubleday, Page and Company.) Tue Venus or Capiz, AN EXTRAVA- GaNza, by Richard Fisguill. (Henry Holt and Company.) Long. (The a SHORT STORIES Carratss Att, by W. W. (Charles Scribner's Sons.) ‘Tue Mountain or Frans, by Henry C. Rowland. (A. S. Barnes and Company.) Jacobs. is gathered from the publications some proteids, some albumenoids and some sugars which it is intended that you should J. B. Kerfoot. Tweive Stortes AND A Dream, by IH G. Wells. (Charles Scribner's Sons.) The Trrumpns oF EUGENE VALMONT, by Robert Barr. (D. Appleton and Company.) WORKS OF HISTORY, CRITICISM AND CONTROVERSY Tue Birver Cry or THE CHILDREN, a sociological investigation by John Spargo. (The Macmillan Company.) Curistian Ortctns, by Otto Pficiderer, of the University of Berlin. (H. B Huebsch.) Epwarp_ Frrzc critical bi- ography by A.C. Benson. (The Macmillan Company.) GovERNMENT REGULATION OF RAILWAY discussion by Hugo Richard millan Com pan al essays by Gilbert K. Chesterton. (John Lane.) How to Stupy Pictures, by Charles H. Caffin. (The Century Company.) A History oF THE INQUISITION OF SPAIN, by Henry Charles Lea. (The Macmillan Company.) Tur Jewisu Spectre, an_ historical a i George H. Warner. (Double- nd Company.) : JUNGLE, a sociological novel by Upton Sinclair. (Doubleday, Page and Company.) Tue Lone Davy, the anonymous story of New York working girl. (The Century Company.) Tue Le F. Holder. pany.) RELIGION, A CRITICISM AND A FORECAST, by G. Lowes Dickinson, (McClure, Phil- lips and Company.) LER, by Charles (Houghton, Mifflin and Com- comicbooks.com