Life, 1907-03-28 · page 21 of 24
Life — March 28, 1907 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** with a brief editorial commentary about German literature and translation. The main content discusses how German novels represent life authentically without artificial plot devices, unlike American publications constrained by commercial and theatrical prudery. The text notes that translation is difficult—translators must understand both languages while maintaining profundity. A small anecdote appears about a courtroom joke circulating from an obscure magazine, highlighting how Life's editors occasionally reprint stories without full attribution. The page features **two product advertisements**: Murad Cigarettes (marketed as "the metropolitan standard" for superior Turkish tobacco blending) and Cascade Whisky from Tennessee. There is **no political cartoon** on this page—it's primarily editorial discussion alongside commercial advertisements typical of early 20th-century American magazines.
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Zo. German Novels RMAN novels illustrate queer no- s of art. They hold, as ’twere, the up to nature. They introduce us to is and events, but persons as they d events as they happen, nothing garbled or sophisticated to suit the exi- gencics of a tortured plot. Of course, this will never do, and so it is that German e subjected to the process called on, ation is a delicate business. Not nce can translate, only now and a dunce. For not only must he under- stand neither German nor English, but he must Le able to make pifile of profundity, without fail, and these be no common y that American prudery has no , but that is simply because they . jooked for it in the right place, You cant compare . the imagination of commercial Y jishers and theatre managers. / the flavor of the Murad i STUS MILES FORMAN, who makes (yd, with that of any other cigarette, iis home:in New York, is booked to a because the Murad flavor is distinctive— ail, in ar future, for Spain, a country ted before. ‘Thence he goes to { original—incomparable. the south coast of the Black Sea, and prob- ably will not return to this country till the / fall Such Is “Life!” i aced to see old friends appreciated once in Ic.” The following joke, which the clipping editor , if bas culled from an unknown magazine called 4), Bug. has been earning one of the biggest if n** Artah-na-Pogue” ever since Dion Boucicault forty-odd years ago sige of asauftand fatten, se OM Ee represent the highest skill in the blending of rich Turkish guilly or not guilty?” asked the clerk when hel reading the charge, 10 which’ the ped tobaccos—a smooth, mild, mellow smoke which gratifies the eet can fell until T hear the evidence?” ! taste of every smoker and which has established the Murad as 3, im the Evening Sun. k. DAVIES is evidently an attentive reader of Lire. He might have “THE METROPOLITAN STANDARD” arther than this. Almost every week, F its extracts from other papers, ( ‘eins old stories, the rule eae Ke 10 for 15 cents if they are exceptionally good their age not necessarily matter. Besides, in | §. ANARGYROS, Manufacturer, 111 Fifth Ave. New York a wealth of material as is constantly in upon us, it is unavoidable that should occasionally slip through, ito the body of the original text. All of experience recognize that such 8 are bound to occur, and no editor hold himself above reproach. Every once and awhile the Evening Sun does the same thing. Not long ago it re- From Sunny Tennessee. Printed, crediting it to the Ladies’ Pictorial, of London, a verse which had appeared A perfect old-fashioned sour mash, copper-distilled a few weeks previous in Lire. whisky. Mild and mellow. Aged by time alone. D SzAitriner-clase moves, GEO. A. DICKEL & CO., Distillers, Nashville, Tenn, GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER comicbooks.com