Life — April 18, 1907 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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¥ rary)/Z0o J Ors and not an ancient Roman,” remarked the Burlington philosopher. “The Roman clothes seem to have been comfortable enough, and they had a bully good time in the baths. But what a confounded nui- sance it would be to have to talk in blank verse all the time.”” A Dangerous Experiment by Mr. Connolly M* JAMES B. CONNOLLY, spinner of deep sea narratives, is back on terra firma, having received honorable dis- charge from the United States Navy, wherein he has been rounding out and presumably salting down various miscel- laneous material for future stories. Mr. Connolly neither concealed his identity nor his intentions, It speaks well for him that he can now report that his occupation made no perceptible difference in his relations with the “real thing” on shipboard—per- haps, because of his own personality, or, possibly, because authors, like sparrows, are nowadays too numerous to attract special attention anywhere. From a commercial point of view it is to be feared, however, that our author has handicapped himself. He reports the seamen with whom he has been associated as a fine body of men and the discipline of the service as highly efficient. There is no hint in his conversation of anybody being ed” in an intoxicated condition ; hint of the brutal, but surprisingly highly cultivated taskmaster in the shape of a superior officer ; no renegade Japanese with a proclivity for startling feats of jiu- jitsu; in fact, the future of this once promising writer bids fair to disappoint the entire body of American youth that has learned to look for these simple ingredients in its tales of seafaring. Editors may even decide that his work is literary. Mr. Connolly’s imagination may be able to surmount this handicap. But he has ap- parently gone forth secking truth and thisis a parlous enterprise, just at the time when it is so much easier toscek truth than to sell it. HATEVER the merits or demerits of books like “The Wonders of the Colorado Desert” and “On the Great American Plateau,” they may at least serve the purpose of correcting the East- emer's queer notions of Westem geog- raphy. It was a New York dramatic critic who, apropos of an Augustin ‘Thomas play, referred to Missouri as “the Occi- dent”; it was a New York evening news- paper that confused the Yosemite with the Yellowstone National Park; and only the other day we opened a popular encyclo- pedia published in these parts, and read with thrilling interest this definition: “The Great Divide—a popular designation for a certain stretch of Western country in the United States.” Melody Buttons, permittin the ANGELUS, For sale in all the principal cities Established 1876 vidual accentus It is peculiarly fitting that the originators of the piano-player and the genius and skill responsible for its continuous development and improve- ment, should crown those accomplishments by the creation of the MELODANT to be an exclusive feature of the ANGELUS In every composition there runs a vein of melody called the ‘* air,’” frequently lying wholly in the treble, often interwoven with the accompaniment or wholly hidden by ormmamentation. It is the province of the MELODANT automatically to pick out and accent this melody, giving to each note its proper value as previously determined in an authentic interpretation. The musical value of this new device is inestimable and when coupled with personal manipulation of the i in of notes or runs at will, and with the Ph i mastering time, and the Diaphragm Pneumatics, giving the Human Touch of the ANGELUS, you have supremely under your own control every known device contributing to a musically correct performance. Yet these features are exclusive with the Great ANGELUS, and thus is it made indispensable that in the selection of a piano-player by every person of discriminating musical taite first consideration must be given rasing Lever, ‘The ANGELUS in cabinet form, the KNABE-ANGELUS PIANO, the EMERSON-ANGELUS PIANO,—all are equipped with the MELOUDANT Di tive literature upon request THE WILCOX & WHITE CO. MERIDEN, CONN. FRY 22 est because theyhave optically perfect lenses arranged to give ex- MOTOR Wesicg OGGLES mene i range of vision. £2.00 10 $4.00. Write for illustrated circular G. GLORE OPTICAL COMPANY, ~~ Boston, Mass. SPENCERIAN Fee pens, differ- sent to any address upon receipt of six cents in postage. SPENCERIAN PEN CO. - 349Broadway, NEW YORK Bards | a 1874 Rare Plants City | and N.E. Cor. 44th St. 7 | Landscape Madison Ave., N.Y. | Gardening comicbooks.com