Life — June 13, 1907 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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16% he meeNiso > 1S peo eZ od habit of reading essays. His ‘Upton Letters,” “From a College Window” and “Beside Still Waters” have followed in ‘ succession, and have gained him a wide hearing in this country. He is nothing ot anonymous, and the admission that The Gate of Death” is also from his pen recalls to us that Punch has gravely attrib- uted to him the authorship of the “Apoc- rypha.”. Even Marie Corelli reads him * * * RTHUR CHRISTOPHER is the second son of Dr. Benson, the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and, like his two younger brothers, is a. bachelor. “Dodo” (Edward Frederic) is the worldly one of the trio. In the race for fame, he passed Arthur Christopher in 1893 with the naughty novel that has given him his nickname; but though he has managed to turn out a book each year since that date, few American readers will recall their title: The youngest of the brothers, the Rev. Robert Hugh Benson, is assistant priest at the Catholic Church in Cambridge. He was a convert, of course, and he, too, has written novels—five of them, in addition to he whole, an uncommon showing for an Archbishop, who, in leaving novel- g to his sons, missed a great oppor- tunity to be advertised as the author of the Archbishop of Canterbury Tales. Australia OT since rabbits threatened to overrun Australia have the industries of that sizable island been so menaced as by the appearance of a pest diagnosed as cacoethes scribendi, According to the author of “The Real Australia,” no home is safe from its ravages. The exalted single-taxer and the humbled cattle baron are equally its victims. But more especially, “Every second dwell- ing of the middle cla cumbered with un- finished and unpublished manuscripts ” After all, the danger seems exaggerated. Here, in the United States, the manuscripts are published Gone Before Life HE Cleveland Leader informed its readers that: The /ate Bolton Hall was a good man who did good deeds, but was a bit ahead of his time. He was something of a visionary. Still, he had his practical side, and this was displayed in his advocacy of farming for the poor of citi Apropos of which Mr. Bolton Hall tells us, in a recent note: “You will be sorry to see by the enclosed that Iam dead! We shall miss me very much, . “But it is too bad to call me ‘the late Bolton Hall’ when I am so far ‘ahead of my time’ that I died ahead of it. “T suppose it’s worse to be a visionary than a ghost!” | Aang the Rockies Entrance to the Rockies | The fairyland of cafions and gey- sers, the wonderland of America— The Pioneer Limited on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway leaving Chicago daily at 6.30 p. m. for St. Paul and Minneapolis, furnishes an accompaniment of home elegancies that has made it a train of world-wide distinction. Electric lighted —com- modious berths with reading lamps — beautiful library cars— perfect dining service. Choice of two other excellent routes—via Omaha and via Kansas City. Special Summer Rates: Tos; Tickets sold June 20 to July 12—$54.00 i Ratara, Retura limit, September. To Seattle, Tacoma. Spokane, Portland, Victoria and Vancouver, Tickeis sold June zo to July 12—$62.50 and Return Return limit, September ts. Via California, $12.80 additional. To Yellowstone Round trip rate to and through Yel- Park and Return lowstone National park, $67.50; with accommodationsat the park hotels for five and a half days, $93.00. Many other low rates West, Northwest and Southwest. Information and interesting literature supplied by F. A. MILLER W. S. HOWELL General Passenger Agent General Eastern Agent Chicago Are you furnishing a House or Life’s Pictures Decorating a Room? = Have you wall spaces or spots Particularly which you wish to make artistically Appropriate effective at small cost? A dainty catalogue showing in miniature reproductions many of Life’s Prints will be sent to any address upon request. LIFE PUBLISHING CO., 17 West 3lst St, NEW YORK comicbooks.com