Life — December 19, 1907 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Dept. 11, Wilda Tobacco Co., Chatham, Va. PLAYING CARDS A Patented Playing with a handsome reproduction ct @ hremsthiched linen handkerchief on the tack. Colors—Red, live. een, Brown. 2§ cents, Gold eige ag ernis. Of all dealers or the manutacturcrs Radcliffe & Co., New York, 144 Pearl St., &London. E.C. Mackaye’s rare gi ing in the un- literary atmosphere of Cornish, yet stead- fast in the pursuit of an ideal—should see a year’s labor lost, largely through the in- competence of ‘actors unschooled in the utterance of verse. For Mr. Mackaye, let it be understood, is not satisfied to write a book drama, and sees only failure in its failure as an acted play. * * HE poetic play has, of late, given prom- ise of a renaissance. Was that promise premature, and must it be, once more, confined to the closet? We have our own opinions, but it is not for us to usurp the functions of dramatic criticism, which has delivered its verdict somewhat copiously. ‘The advantage of prose over verse as a medium of intellectual communication with the public is strikingly shown in the New York correspondence of the Washing- ton Times, apropos of the subject in hand. We must content ourselves with a too brief excerpt: We can believe nearly anything—even this poct’s tale—of Sappho’s capacity for passion. But is it what we want? Is it what ¢ are looking for? Docs it satisfy? No. It isa beautiful picture. And it is archaic. The theatre of to-day can do more than that. Kalich can pulsate with more vital matters that will teach us about life and how to live. This is a fable that makes you feel, some way, that the whole mythical idea has whiskers on it, A Burning Question HE circulating library as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge has in- vited repressive measures from a modern Sir Anthony Absolute—Deacon John Han- lon, of the t Baptist Church, of Nor- walk, Conn. Deacon John has been de- feated, says a news report, in his endeavor to prohibit the Norwalk Public Library from purchasing novels for a period of one year, on the ground that trashy “litera- ture” is perverting the minds of youth. ‘The good deacon has a better case than Sir Anthony, in the England of his day, could have presented from the evidence at hand. He seems, moreover, to have recog: nized that, as all American novelists, at st, are born free and equal, it would be unconstitutional to exercise a discrimina- ting taste in the purchase of our chief literary product—a process of selective exclusion would never do. * * ® HAT such reasoning is by no means purely academic, we can testify on the strength of our private information; it has come to us, from first-hand sources, that one of the foremost librarians of this coun- try seriously questions his right to deny any book not actually vicious to the readers whose taxes go to support the library. We were rather inclined to join hands 140, growing under the very brow of snow-capped mountains, while the seashore, the picturesque forestsand valleys presentall the joys of summer. The journey to this beautiful coast- land is most pleasant on The Overland Limited of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. 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