Life — November 29, 1906 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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F Ty Tee (OTT {LT PO erat RY P [zoo a - & > for “Love's Last Shift,” is classic, and when the farce “ Hit or Miss” was billed as Frappe ou Mademoiselle. That delight- fal piece, in which Toole was at his. funniest, Wa'ker, London,” was referred to in a French newspaper as Londres qui se Promene; the be ansl. could do for the “Stickit Minister” was Le Ministre Assassine. Surprising, but none the kss true, is the version of that line of Goldsmith's “Deserted Village,” “As ocean sweeps the labored mole awa which appeared as Comme la mer déruit les travaux de la taupe, the last word s i the small, burrowing creature we all kno time ago a French writer addressed, or wrote of, the gishop of Sodor and Man as Monseigneur P° & Syphon d’ Homme. EN Kipling was a tw r-old his father him on a sca voyage, and as Kipling esior suffered badly from seasickness, he left the toy to his own devices. Presently a tremendous notion was heard and the boatswain dashed » Mr. Kipling’s cabin, shouting at the top of his nice: “Mr, Kipling, your boy has crawled out on be yard-arm! If he lets go he'll drown to a cer- ity!” “Yes,” said the suficrer, falling back on low, “ but he won't let go!" —Argonaut. T! ipless novel has arrived, declares the New York Sun. It has come, like many another uguc, gradually and without observation. First we had the book review, cleverly giving away ot of the novel, so it could be skipped entirely. , which was so brief you a’ttempted to skip. Now we have the novelette 1 down into the short story, and if you skip a lc syllable it’s all up with you. y characters; scene shifting from Bombay Sorrento, from Sorrento to Cape Town, from own to Purgatory, with stops at way stations purposes of digression; time covering forty s, beginning with grandfather Billingsgate’s nd winding up with Miss Ethel Billingsgate’s ntic clopement; the whole a three-decker J to a sonderklasse yacht; material for two d thousand words crammed into ten pages or :! ver,” laments a writer in the Boston Tran- “have I felt more insistently called upon to ail. After years of fuss and trouble trying to c skill in skipping, I find myself trained to an te craft.” & posthumous novel of John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie)—“The Dream and the Busi- —is almost as full of epigrams as anything she It is, however, one of her more serious ics, and is written to show that the Noncon- mist conscience is not always best guide in ging up a family of twentienth-century children. Peteam's Monthly gives a fe epigrams from the bok to show their quali ome of them are, I ather witty than wise or true: “ho look before they leap—leap, neverthe- * The choice of a career and the choice of a the most important steps in a man’s life—are Scilents always. You may pride yourself on th questions out, but your thinking will us—so far as your fate is concerned. the merely cold or the merely emotional can influence a man’s life, but the If-control; which, in its highest form, on, I spend a lifetime quarreling with his was done into French it almost | | Touring Car CONTENTMENT © It Must Have Quality Two years on the market and the second largest seller in America. Maxwell history has been an endless chain of enthu- siastic endorsement passed on from owner to prospec- tive buyer. Not advertising but solid worth has placed the Maxwell where it stands today. IT SURELY MUST BE WORTH YOUR WHILE TO GET THE FACTS ABOUT THIS CAR BEFORE YOU BUY The Maxwell Catalogue is more than a book of specifications. It isa complete treatise on the com- parative merits of the various systems of automobile construction. Sent free if you write Dept. 23 MAXWELL-BRISCOE MOTOR CO. __ BEACH STREET, TARRYTOWN,N.Y. AGENTS LN ALL Laney c1TIns Exhibit only at the A. C. A. Show; December Ist to 8th, Grand Central Palace, New York. Look for the largest space. 20 H. P. $1450 “ OT and rebel- lious liquors in my blood I. never would tolerate, but at my meals did feast | THE on EVANS’ ALE. Knox Therefore my age is HAT as a lusty winter, Il cistGcbdslly:Fecogatecd’es the Staadaaa by c 3 which all others are judged. frosty but kindly. 452 Sth Av.,cor. 40th St. 194 Sth Av., Sth Av. Hotel 189 Beoadway, near Dey = ———— ——} comicbooks.com