Life — March 25, 1909 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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This ball is in a hole. Secoxp Youne Lavy (looking over a book of The Hotel instructions) : Let—me—see. 1 presume you will The long resounding marble corridors, the shin- have to take a stick of the right shape to get it ing parlors with shining women in them: out. The Frerch room, with its gilt and garlands First Youne Lavy: Oh, yes, of course. See und: plump little tumbling painted loves. if you c&n find one like a dustpan and brush.— The Turhish room, with its jumble of many car- pe!s and its stiffly squared un-Turkish chairs. The En)ich room, all heavy crimson and gold, ® reading palms lifted high in round grecn tubs. eleciiic lights in twos and threes and hun- dreds, made into festoons and spirals and araly ues, a maze and magic of bright per- sisteni radiance people sitting in corners by twos and threes, anc cooing together under the glare. Jon; rows of silent people in chairs, watch- ing sul eyes that see not while the patient band tangles the air with music. lell-boys marching in with cards, and shout- ing names over and over into ears that do not heed stout and gorgeous dowagers in lacy white and Wilac, bedizened with many jewels, with smart little scarlet or azure hats on their xray-streaked hair. KING business men in trim and spotless suits, who ° walk in and out with eager steps, or sit at be Short Stety sks and tables, or watch the shining Dana Gibson's latest drawing “ABSE FRIENDS! Canadian Subscriptions, $5 82. 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Wonderful Critical Preface by Paul Bourget, of the French Academy. raph tickers sounding their perpetual c t-chitechit from the uttermost ends of TALES OF REALISM—RARE ORIENTAL AND PARISIAN STUDIES the earth De Maupassant wrote with the conviction that in life there could be no phase so noble or so mean. s0 honorable waiters, jn black swallow:tails: aed white ‘of $0 contemptible. so lofty or so low as to be unworthy of chronicling—no groove of human virtue of fault, success Terons: pasiiug here ad’ tec with’ (rave of failure, wisdom ‘or folly that did not possess its own peculiar psychological aspect and therefore demanded of boitles and glasses peobust in imagination and fred with natural passion. his, psychological curiosity kept him true to human quietiand:eumpt are i oli hature, while at the same time bis mental eye when fixed upon the most ordinary phases of human conduct, could oe i raeabicg bar:room, with purplish See some new motive or aspect of things hitherto unnoticed by the careless crowd. men softly drinking in little aleoves, while His dramatic instinct was supremely powerful. He seems to select uncrringly the one thing in which the soul bar-keeper mixing bright liquors, is of the scene is prisoned, and, making that his keynote. gives a picture in words which haunts the memory like a rapidly plying his bottles. steala, of music, Jnt, delicious storles should be ‘ The great bedecked and: gilded caié; wiih ite glit ese marvelous quaint. delicious storics should be a part of every library. Here are given tales of travel and F ecked and gilded café, with its glit- adventure. of mystery and dread. of strange medical experiences. of love and lust, of comedy, and pathos that hovers ter of a thousand mirrors, with its little upon the borders of comedy. and of tragedy. Te ciaes, bearing flutonous dishes Hf MORE REALISTIC THAN BALZAC. MORE ENTERTAINING THAN THE ARABIAN NIGHTS flicker daintily back and forth. y = 55 ed, immaculate kitchen, with many * Mavpassant was round blue fires, where white-clad fualry to Cowes: Sg Fo — are’ making spiced and’ flavored Ses B= a = =| 3 g | Wine sae coo) cellars filled with meats and fruits, or ayercl with sealed and bottled wines mel- lowins softly in the darkness. 327 Stories. Nearly 6000 Pages. invisivie stories of furnaces and machines, Actu: burrowing deep down into the earth, where frimy workmen are heavily laboring. many windowed stories of little homes and sheliers and sleeping-places, reaching up igh ee some miracalous, high- SEVENTEEN BEAUTIFUL VOLUMES | QUR GUARANTEE: 2% <o5,comniet cation » inside of the cell—the stuffs, the OF DELIGHTFUL READING erature bey poend ne rach etre ew. 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