Life — March 7, 1907 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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» | @fhelireraryfoow Is THEIR characteristically reticent an- nouncements, the publishers of “ 1S day, the 13th,” which is about to issue w piping hot from the press, do its modest 3 author an injustice. ‘This novel is not Mr. ‘Thomas W. Lawson’s first essay in fiction, 1 and to proclaim it as such is so obviously 1 unfair to that decorative literary artist that ( we hasten to anticipate the protests that are sure to be made against such a slander. Since Mr. Lawson put himself in the fore- of front of the new-journalists-who-do-things, f ff along with Mr. Arthur Brisbane, and C planted his pen on the battlements of the d ten-cent magazines, the owls and bats of Ss literature have attempted to discredit his e claims to originality. They say that r like certain men of action who have en- 1 tered the literary ranks through the med- it ium of the great 35-cent periodicals, his ec style is not all his own; that, like Louis 1s, Stevenson, in his revelation of Yoshida- mt Torajiro, it was “but his hand that held 7 the pen.” It is a privilege to assure the Is public, on unquestioned authority, that n such rumors are but the emanations of h envy, and that Mr. Lawson’s power of \- vivid characterization is the outward sign 1 of an inward temperament. His service in behalf of the Adjective alone—a part of - speech endangered to the point of desue- ° | tude—entitles him to the gratitude of all \- literary tinkers; while Rhetoric—which d had languished till its restoration by Mr. y John Brisben Walker in the Cosmopolitan t curriculum—must ever reverberate with ° 5 vor ul his praise. The keeper of the lions’ cage LEADS IN IMPORTATIONS d | in the Literary Zoo will please open the n | gate with a slam. Mr. Lawson is once e | more lashing the air, and it isn’t safe to ied cecKanicdd exc G According to the Official Records at the Custom endurance contests, its unequall House, more new “ FIAT" automobiles have been - cellence, its absolute reliability, and the fac that imported into this country during 1906 than any behind T™ car, 1 keep him in the arena. e | o . * ind state- . if UITE a delightful tale is told of the other made. € Three yeas ago there were only two meat and behind every quitantes has beta The | late Walter Pater’s failure to give “FIAT” machines in this country. QTodayit leads. HOL-TAN Company, whose high reputation and s | marks to certain essays for the final grading This remarkable showing has been made posible standing are generally secognieed. "FIAT cars d pf’atidents and his eaeoe- for failure 46 by its wonderfully consistent record in all speed and appeal to those who want the best. | mect the obligation. Pater, being one of a ° committee to pass upon examination es- THE HOL-T. ‘AN co. | says, professed when it came to the giving { of an account to be wholly unable to say anything at all, shaking his head wearily at y reiterated questions, and asseverating, ‘No, nothing struck me; nothing struck me at all; all the essays were very much alike.” Finally, his colleagues suggested that if they read aloud the names of the men who had submitted the essays he might be able to some opinion. He submitted, finally, brightening visibly at the name ‘Sanctu- ary,” and saying, with soft glee: ‘Ah, yes, I remember. Give him a first. I liked his name so much.” The tales of his BROADWAY AND. 56th STREET, NEW YORK SOLE AMERICAN IMPORTERS. Licensed Importers under Selden Patent. Agencies: HARRY FOSDICK CO., Boston. DALLEY & BARROWS, Phila. F.G. MINER, San Francisco. ALOX by its wonderful property of liber ating Oxygen, cleanses the teeth, keeps them white, or whitens them if discolored, pre- vents decay, cs sensitiveness, heals and hardens the gums, purifics the breath, pre- vents formation of tartar and recession of the gums, neutralizes acid secretions, destroys infectious germs, removes all odors and keeps The Only OXYGEN : special tolerance toward the pranks of undergraduates, too, are delightful. Being consulted upon measures to be taken against students who persisted in bonfires in the squad, he objected that, on the other hand, “they do light up the tower of St. Mary’s beautifully.”—Bellman, Tooth Powder the whole mouth clean. Of all druggists, 25 cents Send for free sample and booklet Guaranteed absolutely pure under the Food and Drug Act June 30, 1906 McKesson & Robbins, 91-97 Fulton St., New York comicbooks.com