Life — November 7, 1907 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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MIDWINTER GATEWAY TO THE LAND WHERE ITS SUMMER ALL WINTER JASSING through a country of balmy climatic conditions, with continual scenic surprises and places of interest to the tourist at every point—all the way from New Orleans to the Pacific Coast — traveling in trains of superior equipment, latest sleepers, diners, chair, library, buffet, observation cars—clean motive power, oil burning locomotives, allowing car win- dows to be open the entire trip. The Southern Pacific Sunset Route Offers you the natural midwinter route to CALIFORNIA and all points in Louisiana, Texas, Mexico, Arizona Elegant new steamers between NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS add an agreeable variety to a transcontinental trip. F. E. Batturs, G.P.A. L. H. Nutting, G.E.P.A. 349 Broadway MODEL SLED FREE. Write for cardboard model thawing Just how it works ; sent free es. Philadelphia, Pa, | BWA colored Christmas booklet, S. L. ALLEN @ CO., Box 1102X Patentecs and Manutacterers. Yhe “The Grave of Our Dreams” ‘OR us who send and send in vain, Till weary of the strife, ‘The much-repeated, old refrain Is often labeled LIFE Popular Writers and Their Methods Part I its contempt which many of us profess to entertain for the gossip concerned with the ways of authors is not wholly sincere. It arises, often, from the abuse of anecdote and the emphasis of the unim- portant. There are certain banalities, not wholly unrelated to the exigencies of ad- vertising, which were better unexpressed. ‘There are people who take authors too seriously, and authors who obtrude their personalities disproportionately to their performance. There is a kind of tittle- tattle, neither amusing nor informing, that affords no clue to mental processes and sheds no light on the relation of the writer to his work and to the public We grant all this, yet we cannot deny the legitimate interest that attaches to the methods of the popular writer. At this late day we like to know that George Sand wrote without heeding the children who romped around her—that she “let her pen trot” through those copious romances which so few of us still read. That Renan sat waiting an hour for the right word, that Scott was a sloven when it came to style, that Dumas turned out romance at white heat, and Zola realism at the rate of 500 words a day—these things stick in the memory. eg & AP so, if in less degree, we are in- terested in the processes and output of our humbler contemporaries. Is it true that they write too much, in response to public’s and publisher's demand? Are they too greatly concerned with matter and too lite with manner? Have the stenog- rapher, the typewriting machine and the phonograph in some measure superseded the pen? Does their choice of surroundings indicate any marked concession to the modern strain on the nervous system? We have been making some personal in- quiries along these lines, and we cannot say that the disclosures are in any sense alarming. Some of the facts thus elicited which seem to have a passing interest are here assembled. + 8 “6 R a good many years,” writes George Ade from his Hazelden Farm at Brook, Ind., “‘I did my so-called ‘literary 30 The first Derby made in America was a C. & K. Hats for Men NAPP-FELT hats are forthe discriminating 7 —those for V4 whom the best is none too good. | Knapp-Felt DeLuxe—the best hats made—are Six Dollars Knapp-Felts—the next best— are ‘Four Dollars Write for “The Hatman” THE CroruT & KNAPP Co. BROADWAY. AT THIRTEENTH ST.. NEW YORK The host who heeds his guests’ pleasure won't give them soiled or shabby cards to play with. A new, clean, white pack of Bicycle e Playing Cards will make the game a success. 25c. per pack. Thin and flexible. Full of life. Large readable U.S. Playlog Card Co, Court, eM? JACKETS For Heating and Outing, All wool. seam Jess and elastic. Cut shows No. $r—euas . all peices. Geo, ¥. Webber, Hi. Sta. 7, Detrelt, Heb, comicbooks.com pr in fix en sc