Life — March 21, 1907 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Khe-CopleuNrints choice gifts,—also unsurpassed as pictures for decorating one’s own walls. Long recognized, even by artists, as the best art reproductions made in America. At Art Stores, or sent On Approval. Fifty cents to Twenty dollars. ILLUS- S ATALOGUE (its Two Hundred illustrations including works by Abbey, Alexander, Burne-Jones, Sargent, i Vedder, and so on) sent upon receipt of Twenty-five cents (stamps), which charge may be deducted from a subsequent purchase of the Prints them- selves. The above picture, “ ANGEL,” by Abbott H. Thayer, copyright 1903 by Curtis & Cameron 22 Pics, 84 Boston Knox HAT is universally recognized as the Standard by which all others are judged. 452 Sth Av., coe. 40th St, 194 5th Av. Sth Av. Hotel 189 Broadway, neat Dey St of a series of articles on contemporary France by Professor Barrett Wendell. It tells about the French educational system, and is very lively and informing. We hope the succeeding articles will be as good and will be widely read, for we Americans as a group do not know nearly as much about the French people as we should. Indeed, we don’t know nearly as much as we ought to know about any of the other civilized folks in the world. What we read, hear and discuss about them are mostly super- and gossip. France is a most important country. Its. people and its civilization, their merits and defects, are all important and eminently worthy to be studied and understood by people like us, who are busy trying to work out our own problems of civilization. But Americans, as a rule, know ridiculously little about France and the French, outside of the shops and boulevards of Paris and the improprieties of yellow-covered French literature and comic papers. Some of our friends can tell us about Nice and who was there, and how far it is from Monte Carlo. Others can tell us about the state of the roads in the chateaux country, and we can get good points about the shops, hotels and pleasure places of Paris. But very few Americans penetrate at all into French life. Professor Wendell did. He went to France to deliver lectures in the French universities, and that errand carried him into very intelligent and interesting French society in all parts of the Republic, and kept him there for nearly a year. He isa good observer and a good writer and is himself a cultivated man of energetic mind, so that his reports, judging from the article published, are going to be valuable. MES HUNEKER, author, is once more James Huneker, critic. Perce tive readers of the Sur (the adjective perhaps tautological) have not failed to recognize his adroit hand of late in the elaborate art reviews on the editorial page —and, recognizi it, to rejoice. Mr. Huneker’s musi ms for the Sun linger melodiously in the memory; his dramatic column for that journal was ever diverting. As an art critic—well, you can see for yourself. HE ‘call of the city” has been an- swered by another Westerner, Stewart Zdward White, who has abandoned the simple life of his bungalow in California for the hurly-burly of New York. Hamlin Garland, on the other hand, sees little to attract him in the “Great White Way,” and, after mature consideration, has de cided to take the main-traveled road for Chicago, American home of Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor. The Standard of Corset Fashion The most shapely and beautiful models of this or any pre vious season including the newest high-bust shapes. Approved by medist { Unquestionably the dnest high-grade corsets sold, comfortable and correct. The attachment of the URITY” Rubber Button Hose Supporters completes the garment and assists in securing perfect fit. Sold at all good shops at from $15.00 down to $3.50, according to al ‘The Warner Brothers Cou? ago, San Francisco. le carema little daly attentionmand a little ee the woman who cares MILKWEED CREAM Isa skin food with tonic pe S'pleasure Soli by all druggists at go cents and 00 te comicbooks.com