Life — November 28, 1907 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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big by eal She ae Hawthorne Had Been Better Fed HE Times Saturday Review accuses Professor Harry Muntin Peck of presenting Nathaniel Hawthorne as an erfectly nourished gentleman . . . hose work was marked by low vitality led lack of physical and _ intellectual it seems, thinks Poe cald have done better with Hawthorne’s ions than Hawthorne did scandalized—justly, no vabt—at Mr. Peck, and yet it in in- ting matter for speculation what thorne, with his extraordinary. en- ments, might have done if he had been mperly fed. It is quite true—if his tographers are to be trusted—that he was rfectly nourished for long periods of roductive literary life. He is our ‘est novelist so far, but Mr. Birrell, Seother day, put him among novelists of second rank, and not among the five ett, Scott, Thackeray and Di S. ps if he had been better nourished the time he left Bowdoin College cil he went to Liverpool Mr. Birrell right have rated him a peg higher. But can say? Food and exercise might fave turned him away from writing al- Publishers’ Notes R. HAROLD HIGHFALUTI whose short stories have made a hit magazine editors because he never ds _ anybody, will collaborate in a Lloyd Skreamer, who writes isements for Mr. High- Mr. Highfalutin’s imagination, which en- thes him t to write fluently of things and eple he knows nothing about; but in the *gons of pure romance and invention it S thought that Mr. Skreamer has him saten to a pulp. Ra Ambidexter, the best-selling nove- &, always counts one hundred slowly ‘Wore each five thousand words of his &}’s work. He does not believe in writing Mr. Allgain, the founder of the optimistic ‘Sool of literature, is learning to write "th his left hand. It comes handier, he plains, as he always writes with his fan’ blood. Willing the stuttering baritone Gantz, When asked by the chorister Rastz, Said “Td jj j.jump at the chants." —Lippincett’s Magazine. While Rock. “The World’s Best Table Water” 1883 1908 ‘LIFE Twentyp-fifth Hirthday umber DATED January Second, Nineteen Hundred and Eight WILL CONTAIN, IN ADDITION TO THE RECULAR PAGES OF TEXT, A REPRODUCTION OF THE TEXT OF THE FIRST NUMBER OF LIFE Advertising forms close December Eighteenth MAGAZINE COPY 60 cents per Agate Line Magazine page $134.40 Magazine % page. . 67.20 Magazine 'f page. . 33.60 LIFE COPY One page, 8x10 . . . $250.00 4x10 ye LTO. 128.00 4 “4x 5... 62.50 ADDRESS COMMUNICATIONS RELATIVE TO ADVERTISING TO JOSIAH JUDSON HAZEN, Advertising Manager, 17 West 31st Street NEW YORK BURTON R. FREER, Western Manager, 1204 Marquette Building, Chicago THE THEATRE MAGAZINE $4.50 VALUE FOR $3.00 THE THEATRE MAGAZINE brings the New York Theatres to your home each month—a sumptuous maga- zine replete with interesting text, exclusive portraits, splendid illustrations, and authoritative criticisms of the plays and players people are talking about—admittedly the next best thing to seeing the play itself. $4.50 Value for $3.00 For $3.00, the regular subscription price to THE THEATRE MAGAZINE, we will enter your naineas a subscriber for the next twelve months and send you at once absolutely free the new and (regular price $1.50, bound in silk cloth, illustrated with 24 exclusive photos, vividly interesting narrative of Miss Adams's life by Ada Patterson). THIS OFFER 15 LIMITED, SEND AT ONCE THE THEATRE MAGAZINE, 22 W. 33d Street, New York City with THE THEATRE MAGAZINE, send ws twenty five cents for Our ‘Aeing three wusnbers bound together. one hundred pages of text. ‘ene hundred and fifty slustrations, three colored plated CALIFORNIA —OUR DAYs FROM NEW YORK By NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES comicbooks.com