Life — May 27, 1909 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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“NESTOR” “IMPORTED” “ROYAL NESTOR” : The Eternal Boy. Owen Johnson. Dodd, Mead & Co, New York. 1909. There is but one word that adequately de- | scribes this libel upon American school-boy life: that is, “low.” There is neither humor nor erates lying, stealing and cheating through their school days, apparently untouched by a decent instinct or an echo of such school-boy ideals as honor, courage, pluck. The masters fare little better than the boys at the author's hands, and to feel the disgrace of any such picture of Amer- ican school life one need only set it beside Eden | | htful and humorous volume, “ T! port's deli The Pulse of Life, by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. Dodd, | | Mead & Co. 1909. ° | It is a great pleasure to run across as w constructed and well-written a novel as this one by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. It is full of the sense of life and motion. The canvas, which offers us London of to-day, is crowded with many figures drawn from life—a Russian grand duke, a conservative, old-time, grand lady, the Margravine of Moravia; Anne Leycester, of Sanctuary House, who has the gift of healing Rose Hassal, the newly arrived daughter of millionaire, and a sprinkling of interesting men. Mrs. Lowndes has long been in a position to know cosmopolitan society, and she has turned her advantages to good account. Her novel is a serious, craftsmanlike piece of work, and has || a real value as a picture of London life at the || end of the nineteenth century. We disbelieve in everything about “ Destiny and Desire, Poems Passionate and Perverse,”’ by Maryland Watson. We don’t believe in Mary- land, whose name is signed under the picture that is the frontispiece. We think she is a myth, her picture a fake, her poems probably the work of some rounder, who can relieve his mind more easily when disguised as a woman. | But if Maryland really is a woman, she had | better see a doctor. Her frame of mind is far from healthy The Little Brown Brother, by Stanley Portal Hyatt truth in the picture of a group of young degen- || He Holt & Co. Mr. Hyatt was a war-correspondent during the Filipino revolt of 1904-1905, and lost a brother in the cause, His narrative is interesting and his characters well-drawn, but the book is chiefly le by reason of the pictures of life and conditions in the Philippines. The book is frank- ly critical of American methods and shows the evils and dangers of political corruption in a savage land AEs of Fight, by Emerson Hough. Bobbs Merrill. This story of ladies hitherto unknown to his- tory who added to the map of the United States very implausible, Not so do diplomats pull BRS; not so are adventurers of use. 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The chapter which ae describes the emigration to Oregon has real emo- verse which will make your friend popular on shipboard, because it deals with types familiar in every ship-load and will keep every one laughing. Send your remittance and enclosures to BRIARCLIFF LODGE ated. tion, not entirely uncommun Brancuiry Maxon. N.Y. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, A Resort Hotel of High Quality 17 West Thirty-first Street, Sone for thse hundred cutee Lacteaees denne at furnished under exclusive orders for lease engagement, Tome . DAVID B. PLUMER, Manager New York CIty. | Represented at ty bast eth st york. "Phone 785th, 741 comicbooks.com