Life — June 17, 1909 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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| | iL Ies2 Hox Fullot Fat spark: Wil standeodlem jarring ted} ete a A Contribution to Current Literary Criticism s seems to be a suitable time to report on stion which I have long had under investi- ». The question is: Who wrote Mark in’s works? first sight it might scem a perfectly simple r to answer this query. So it is, if one is ug childishly to accept everything at its face But the more we consider the difficulties ore improbable it becomes that that whole row of books, bound in red buckram, and 1g every subject below the skies—history, m, propaganda, fiction (Christian) science jumping frogs to Joan of Arc, was ever n by any one man. Then, when we look at the current superstition, that this one man is the old chap in the pajamas, Mr. Clemens, in the improbability immediately takes on the air of impossibility. Also a color of absurdity. ct, it is the biggest joke in the whole set rty_ volumes. Here is a man who has never been to Harvard or Cornell or Michigan or any other college, has never used a college yell or an examination pony, who has had no education in law, theology, lit- erory or agricultural pursuits, and yet we are ashed to believe that he wrote all that miscel- lancous library in red buckram. Why, it is three sas much as Shakespeare wrote, it covers a much more diverse line of subjects, and some of it is better than the worst of Shakespeare's stuff, and yet many people think that Shakespeare’s works had a dubious parentage. \ detailed examination of these books marked the Mark Twain pseudonym very soon vs that they were written by several different It is apparent, even to the densest mind, these various pseudonymous anonymous works were brought together by an enterprising lisher and put out under a good-selling nom- © earlier works, including Innocents Abroad and Roughing It, were written by Mr. Clemens binself. That's They have his. style. They correspond with his experience. They show what he can do, and so indicate clearly that many ° other productions are from other hands. Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Life on the Tor those who want {fo Know et ory famosa Apple Bat A scarred and mud splashed car, checking in with a clean score at the end of an endur- ance contest tells a story of tire superiority more convincing than pages of technical description. Tire troubles mean delays which mus: be made up in the running time, thus putting an extra strain on tires, driver and car..., With poor tires the best car built cannot escape penalization. In the big Endurance Contests of 1909, as in the years before GOODRICH TIRES have been the equipment of the majority of the winners. The detailed story of their performance in the Pike's Peak Climb; the Pittsburg, Harrisburg and Detroit Endurance Runs and other events under rigorous conditions of road and weather, is your assurance that Goodrich Tires give the best service in the world. In the Detrolt Run, Goodrich Tires equipped 7of 17 starters and 6 of the 7 clean score finishers! Two of the cars came through without so much as a puncture in the 4days grind. The Press car suffered 4 blow-outs the firct day and 2the second on two sets of different makes until they changed to Goodrich Tires when they had no trouble. For instance, in the Harrisburg run 25 Goodrich Tires started 25 finished. They carried the only car that ame through without tire change, equipped the winner and suffered noblow-outs as against 9 blow-outs of other kes. Three times as many punctures were recorded alnst otner makes as against Goodrich Tires. You may not be interested in the reasons for these results;-in the peculiarly tough composition of the Goodrich White Tread; the shock-resisting qualities of the Good- rich Specially Treated Fabric, or the strength cf Goodrich Integral Construction....But a Road Record which includes four Glidden Tours and the most gruelling contests of recent years is an adequate measure of merit - which he who rides may Ih The B. F. GOODRICH Co., Akron, Ohio. Largest inthe World. Branches in Principal Cities. ‘Rin tmnt ecm i ‘capresso bine Ser we It’s Your lamina! for an Outing Ott Ou ay ~N right met “MOUNTAIN AND LAKE RESORTS” / Book shows where to go rates, of road, 110 pages beautifully illustrated. ‘Seat Free for 10 cents te sarge postage. Address General Passenger Lackawanna Railroad Bor ih 9 We Set. \ "ous ether half Mississippi. are evidently drawn also from the experience of Mr. Clemens; but the literary style indicates the collaboration of some better trained writer. I have tried hard to uncover the identity of this collaborator; but as yet I have only cer- tain surmises, which I will not report without confirmation. The next group we may consider includes The Connecticut Yankee, Prince and Pauper, etc. These were evidently written by some New Eng- land author and not by any Nevada miner or ¢ Mississippi boatman. I am inclined to believe “s. > that the late Mr. Charles Dudley Warner was the aaa 4 r veritable man; but it is well known that Mr. Warner was greatly averse to any puzzles or (Continued on page 860) comicbooks.com