Life — June 6, 1907 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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1g st Pibhotiag hl Sn S ie SS Vis nro eg The answer was ‘a grunted, stinted, unsupplemented ‘No.’” Mr. James as- cribes its character to ingrained discour- tesy. He even sees in the conductor’s momentary hesitation a discriminating choice between contemptuous silence and monosyllabic snubbing; and this, too, has “enriched his notes” with the worth of a page. But we ourselves are inclined to a more charitable construction. When Mr. James spoke up from his “ pew,” was his colloquial query as affected as the sentence we have reproduced? If so, perhaps that conductor simply thought the passenger was guying him. London AFTER some delay, which enabled him to take a long trip through Ne- vada and down through Death Valley, Jack London is sailing the Pacific seas in the “Snark.” He has practically no itinerary. When the custom house people at San Francisco were making out the yacht papers, they asked him his desti- nation, and he answered, ‘San Francisco.” For that, in fact, is the only definite port for which he intended sailing—traveling all the way around the world to get there. Plans he has none. ‘‘ Wherever I happen to be,” says Mr. London, “I shall stay as long as I like it; and the instant I do not like a place any longer, I shall move on to some other place. And the place I move on to will be the place that calls to me the loudest at that particular moment.” * * # CORRESPONDENT of Mr. Lon- don recently ventured to suggest that no novelist had persistently attempted the commingling of romantic fiction with the analytic exposition of human character and conduct; that Stevenson—of all men the best equipped for it—had barely skirted the field in “The Ebb Tide,” pre- ferring, as he did, his pirates to the more serious task of ‘“‘tearing out the human heart and, holding it up all bloody and vibrating,” and that he himself (London) had disclosed in “The Sea Wolf” an ex- traordinary aptitude for such adventure. * * * “TT SEEMS to me,” wrote Mr. London, by way of answer, “that Joseph Con- rad, one of the foremost of the masters, has done that very thing. I look upon him as the greatest sea-writer the world has yet produced. To me the most characteristic thing of Corrad’s writings is that he gives the psycholozy of the romance of the sea. Joseph Conrad does not write sea-adven- ture in which the sea comes in chunks, the adventure comes in chunks and the exposi- tion of human character comes in chunks: with him, all three are fused together in the consistent whole. With Conrad, the sea is never the sea, per se. He gives us thenew Reming- ton and compet- AUTOLOADING RIFLE} vets: enough for the biggest game." _Hammerless, with a solid breech—it Is absolutely safe. It takes down to pack in your suit case. Made for rimless cartridges .30-30, .32 and .35 Remington. The Remington Autoloading Shot Gun operates on the same principle and ts. the game gun. New illastrated catalogues tree. Write Dept. 8, N.Y. REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY, Ilion, N. Y. Agency, 315 Broadway, New York City Sales Office, 515 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. REMINGTON | 2: “A Hundred Golden Hours at Sea” ‘I never was on the dull tame shore, Bat I loved the great sea more and more."* You should read this delightful story, handsomely illustrated, descriptive of the pleasures of a trip on the magnificent new 10,000-ton ships of the Southern Pacific Steamship Line be ween NEW YORK and NEW ORLEANS Superb » accommodations. Suites of parlor, bedroom and private bath. Handsome staterooms, spacious decks, cuisine ut AN IDEAL VACATION TRIP Send 10c. in stamps for copy of book moving New York, 349-1 Broadway, Syracuse, 212 W. Washington St. PRiADELruta, 632 Chestnut St. Boston, 170 Washington St. Battmore, 29 W. Baltimore St. |= New Orirans, Magazine and Natchez Sts. POSITION UNRIVALLED IN LONDON, ENGLAND ose LANGHAM HOTEL Portland Place & Regent St., London, W. FAMILY HOTEL OF THE HIGHEST ORDER IN FASHIONABLE AND HEALTHY LOCALITY BESh 2 ee 177 BROADWAY 686 BROADWAY 723 SIXTH AVENUE TO BE HAD ONLY AT OUR STORES WARDROBE TRUNKS comicbooks.com