Life, 1907-01-03 · page 40 of 44
Life — January 3, 1907 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page is predominantly **advertising**, with some editorial content. The main items are: **Advertisements** occupy most of the page—food products (Huyler's cocoa and biscuits, Alvord's corn relish), luxury goods (Park & Tilford tea), and financial services (Morton Trust Company, Jenner & Company real estate). **Editorial content** includes: - Literary commentary defending Rudyard Kipling against American critics who resented his unflattering remarks about America. The passage quotes Kipling bitterly saying Americans "never forgiven me for not having died" during his 1899 illness—suggesting they wish he hadn't survived. - A brief account of a dinner honoring Henry M. Alden (likely editor of Harper's Magazine), attended by prominent literary figures like Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Howells. - A publisher's correction regarding Maxim Gorky's novel *Mother*, clarifying it concerns Russian Revolution peasants, not anti-American sentiment. The page reflects *Life*'s role as a venue for both consumer marketing and literary-cultural commentary aimed at affluent, educated readers.
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Corbizre, Vice Pres. waren Ae Coaat, Pretcrer, rioaly Capita, - - - President to, Vice-Pres. Charles H. Allen, Vice-Pres. Yau! D. Cravat EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Paul D. Cravath Ivan G.G, Maven Allen James N, Jarvie Berwind ‘ Jacob H. Schitt Marry Payne Whitney rles Edward J not especially bright, he is often turned down, he generally smokes, and he frequently goes out at night.—Anon. In most men there is a dead poct whom the man Sainte-Beauve. A gentleman is a man who looks and acts like a gentleman even when he isn’t dressed like a gentle- —From Sovereign Woman versus Mere Man, THERE was nothing original, but something exceedingly cruel, in the remarks of a Yale essor a few weeks ago to the effect that Mr. $ great mistake was that he did not die of pneumonia when he was ill in New York seven or cight years ago, says the Bookman. It is not often that people go to the length of bluntly, ex- pressing this opinion, but it is the underlying keynote of all the criticism hostile to the new Kip- ling—the criticism which does not like ‘‘Kim,” which abhors “Stalky and Company” and which is impatient with the dilution of Henry James that is to be found in so many of his later stories. Mr. Kipling himself is keenly conscious of this senti- ment, and it pains him. Not very long ago he said bitterly to a friend: “The American people have never forgiven me for not having died the time that I was ill in New York.” A\ SPECIAL correspondent of the Los Angeles press has given an account of the recent dinner to Henry M. Alden in these paragraphs: It was a notable assembly. Men as widely asunder as Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Hayden Carruth were there, and women with as little in common, except their love for Alden, as Margaret Deland and Caro- lyn Wells. Mr. Alden looked well—hale as he was twenty year pocts of all degrees of John Kendrick Bangs. as only a man could wh handsome, halcyon Verses were read by nius, from Mr, Howells to Iden bore the infliction d been seasoned by There was not one of the rhy would have admitted to the columns of Harper's Magazine. E HAVE received the following from Messrs. Appleton: TOR OF “ Lire,’? New York Crry. Dear Sir: In your issue of December 20, page 707, you refer to “Gorky's much-advertised new book called ‘Mother, in which he sets down his impres- sions, unfavorable, of course, of America. May we beg you to correct this injustice to a very noble work?“ Mother” is the title of a novel of the Russian Revolution of to-day. It is concerned with a peasant mother and her son in the toils of persecu- tion. It has nothing to do with America, except that it was written in this country and is having its first publication in A ppleton's Magazine. If Gorky has been a somewhat caustic critic of America, it must be remembered that “we began on him first,” and that,as in the case of Charles Dickens, one can be a very wonderful novelist without being necessarily fond of American manners. Yours very truly, D. ArpLeton & Co. The comment in question was taken from a dispatch to the London Times, which should have taken the trouble to become more correctly informed. Lire is glad to make the correction in favor of M. Gor! THe Dee. 19, 1906. nearly four decades of experience with versifiers. | ————= ned offerings that he ISABOTTLED DELIGHT Most Americans are connoisseurs in Cocktails—and a connoisseur's taste demands uniformity in the flavor, trength and mixing of his favorite d There's only one kind of uniformly good cocktail—CLUB COCKTAILS. Bar cocktails are slap-dash guess- work — good by accident, bad by rule— but never smooth or uniform to a cultivated taste. 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