Life, 1906-11-29 · page 24 of 28
Life — November 29, 1906 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and literary gossip**, not political satire. The main content concerns **Edward Vance Cook**, a Cleveland writer whose poetry was used without attribution by humorist **Bill Nye**. Cook wrote a pointed but genteel letter confronting Nye about the plagiarism, essentially shaming him into proper credit. This reflects late 19th/early 20th-century concerns about literary theft and professional courtesy. A secondary item attacks **Elbert Hubbard**, editor of *The Philistine* magazine, using harsh mockery ("Goliath of Fast Aurora") for his self-promotional writing and pretentiousness—a common target of *Life's* satire during this era. The page otherwise consists of advertisements for John Jameson whiskey, the Golden State Limited train, a speedometer, and writing instruments—typical of the magazine's mixed editorial-advertising format.
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, Meets the demand |! | for aT something better ‘Sole Agents W A. Taylor & Co ' New York au Mcnally Golden State imited ooo eC alifornia The time spent on this royal train en route to the Golden State is ever so short, delightful and interesting. There is something new to see in every mile—there is a pleasure in every minute, The Golden State Limited is equipped entirely new this season. Drawing-room and Compartment Pullmans, Buffet-Library-Observa- tion Car and new Mission-style Diner. Barber, library, stock market reports by wire, magazines and daily papers. Commencing early in December it runs daily from Chicago, St. Louisand Kansas City to Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Francisco over the Southern, lowest altitude route. Send name and address for beautiful de- seriptive booklet of the train. JOHN SEBASTIAN Passenger Traffic Manager CHICAGO Roc Island (imefe (ur Tena EL RYP f2004 HAVE. always wanted to know, says a curious person in the Times, who really wrote— This life’s a hollow bubble, Don’ 1 you know ‘inted pi t you know ? of trouble, “e come to carth to ewy, ow oldeh, and we sigh, Oldeh still, and then we d Don’t you know ? and now I have found him. He is named Edward Vance Cook, and is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. He has been a free lance in the matter of his lit work, and has never had any regular conne with any newspaper or periodical. He has made a reputation for himself as a writer of verse and short articles. He is still young, only thirty-six, but he began to write at a ve e. Once Mr. Cook wrote this quatrain: To deftly do what many think, To fund a fecling for the world to borrow; To turn a tear to printer's ink, To make a sonnet of a sorrow, This Bill Nye, in one of his newspaper letters, used without giving credit to the author, whereupon Mr. Cook, holding his indignation in check, wrote the following Dear Mr. Nye: As an admirer of American literature, I have been interested in your young and promising carcer. and pleased | at the richly deserved recognition it has been accorded. I note that you drop occasionally into verss, also that a few days ago opped into some of mine. I felt fattered yet troubled 1 said, Lam interested in your youthful efforts and de terary life blighted in its bad. Are you not, in using my verses without blaming yourself open to the awful danger cf being accused of writing them yourself? fot Want (o see your for them, laying DITOR WIN Teonoclast, has been sassing at and saying scemingly harsh things yout one Mother Hubbard, the same tha sides at the Philistine. The Iconoclast artic long and sultry, so we make room but for a few sentences from it, commending it all to readers who like that sort of thing. S; the Windle: GOLIATH OF FAST AURORA Elbert Hubbard, chief pencil pusher on the, Philsstine, a reriodical of patridity, perpetrated monthly.and “printed every fittie stile. for the ‘mistaformation of pinheads, isa. hypo al humbug. He is the greedy, gaping gobo. who gabbles to gumptionless galoots at so much a gab. and gobbles the gold cqmed by the gezabos who tun his Roycroft piping peddlcr of putrescent platitud th Potential Profesor of buncology: ted, bamosious, hickering old blatherskite has deluged t ntry with more hogwash than any living man. ‘As @ fatuous faker and professional flim-flammer, ke is in a class by himself, Compared with Hubbard, Dowie, whose black art excited the admiration cf the devil, is the soul of sincerity and sanctity. As a lurid liar, be makes Ananias look like a novice. plete satisfaction of every enemy of the maker of tbe ol lest ex- isting fadazine. MONTH or two ago the Bookman called atten- tion to the very startling title under which the ‘ench publishers had presented Mr. Upton Sin- clair’s “The Jungle.” A recent issue of T. P.'s Weekly calls attention to a number of similar humors of translation. For fnstance, Victor Hugo always translated the Firth of Forth as “the First of the Fourth,” and swore that he was right, tog, while Disraeli noted with amusement the French render- | ing of the adjective “woebe va-t-en.” An early translator of Scott's “ Bride of amermoor” had it as La Bride de Lammermoor, 3 and the same man rendered “Welsh rabbit” by Lapin du Pd Galles. The case of La Derniere Chemise del Amour the second word meaning “bridle be one best This instrument is the pioneer speed indicator. It recently re- ceived the A. C. G. B. & I. Gold Medal award. for its remarkable durability, pos- itive accuracy and absolutely perfect performance: @ Why at have dhe accepted standard—and by actual test the most Reliable Speedometer in the world. Gold Medal literature free. We exhibit at Grand Central Palace, December Ist to 8th, and Madison Square Garden, January 12th to 19th. JONES SPEEDOMETER 104 W. 32d St.,N. 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