Life — December 5, 1907 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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“EEF E « that town, but possesses the journalistic instinct so essential to the conduct of a great modern magazine. It was a San Francisco newspaper that in one feat eclipsed all former achievements in enter- prise by announcing: “As we go to press, aman is being run over in the Southern Pacific railway yards.” So Mr. Bierce’s “beat” in going to press with the “only great poem written in America,” con- taining lines more lyrical than the best of Coleridge’s and Keats's, and printed hard upon the heels of Mr. Bryce’s slander of our poetry, was entirely characteristic. * * * We HAVE followed more or less at- tentively the ensuing symposium on the subject in the Cosmopolitan’s daily edition, the New York Evening Journal, to which Mr. Arthur Brisbane, better known to Journal readers under the pseudonym of William Randolph Hearst, has invited the critical collaboration of our most brilliant creative minds. It is not for us to take issue with Mr. Bierce on the merits—shall we say the immortality ?— of Mr. George Sterling’s “A Wine of Wizardy.” Mr. Bierce is not only “a VERY great critic,” as Mr. Brisbane- Hearst capitally remarks, but is, as he himself admits, one of the six or seven persons in this country qualified to recognize poetry when it is put up to them. The name of Keats “was writ in water.” The pity of it! Had he lived to mect Mr. Brisbane Randolph Bierce, he might have seen it printed in pica—a little below that of George Sterling. WT. L. : Where in thunder did you get Biurree: That wine, sir, has been in my cellar for twenty-five years. “It does you credit, sir, to have kept it there so long.” —Cleveland Leader. THE SONNY SIDE THE ANGELUS PIANO A Christmas Gift for Every Day in the Year HOOSE what you will, no gift within your power of giving can add one half so much to the joys of the coming Christmas as the ANGELUS PIANO. ' For all the household, young and old, on Christmas Day and every day pe be the year, the ANGELUS PIANO heralds a new era of enjoyment in your home. Any one—musician or non-musician—can play the ANGELUS PIANO. It is an upright piano of the first grade with the world-famous Angelus piano-player incor- porated within its case. The musician can play it by hand the same as any other piano, or, if you are unfamiliar with the technique of music, you can play as well or even better by means of the Angelus. Remember, the ANGELUS PIANO is the only instrument in the world equipped with the patented expression de ie wonderful MELODANT and the famous Phrasing Lever, The MELODANT emphasizes the melody notes so that they come out clear and distinct above the accompaniment, ‘The Phrasing Lever provides you with absolute and instantaneous control of the time so that your music will not sound humdrum or mechanical. Before investing in a piano—FIRST SEE AND HEAR THE ANGELUS PIANO, It can nowbe had on very essy terms in every important city in America, Write us fo-day for descriptive literature and namie of representative in your locality, THE WILCOX & WHITE COMPANY Whitman Saddles KNOWN THE WORLD OVER E are the sole manufacturers of the celebrated Whitman Saddles and Specialties. We im- port and manufacture everything for the saddle horse, from ** saddle to spur."* Every man and woman interested in horse- back riding should have our book. - WE MAIL IT FREE The Mehlbach Saddle Co. —- 108 Chambers St. New York YOU WOULDN'T TAKE A COUNTERFEIT DOLLAR Knowingly. Isn't the man who imitates another man’s trade-mark as bad as the counterfeiter? If you want eatisfaction and your money's worth, your chances are better if you GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR comicbooks.com