Life — October 21, 1909 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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548 The Man of the Great White Way (Long After Barry Cornwall) HE Great White W: The Great White Way! The bright, the swift, the ever gay! Without a bound, It runneth a mile of light and sound. It plays with the fools, it mocks the wise, And like a lavish creature buys. wall, without a I'm on the Way! I'm on the Way! I am where | could ever play, With the stars above and the stars below And Pleasure wheresoc’er I go. If a storm should come up unaware, What matter? I'd drop in anywhere I love, oh, how I love to glide With the swift and rushing human tide; Where every man is as good as the rest Who lives with fervor and spends with zest And tells his fellows, with hearty glee, “New York is good enough for me!’ I never was at the dull sea-shore, But I love the old town more and more; And backward flew to its busy drive, Like a homing bee to its swarming hive (And a hive it was, and is, I say, For I was stung on the Great Way!) White I've lived in Manhattan's whirl and strife Full fifty winters—a lively life— With wealth to spend on its fun and fraud, And I never have cared to go abroad. And Death, whenever he comes to stay, Shall come for me on the Great White Way. Oscar Llewellyn. Dangerous Doctrine HE announcement comes from Paris that M. Santos-Dumont is making no effort to protect the patents on his aero- planes: that his patents and models are “held at the disposition of all comers, with the sole purpose of advancing and popularizing the art of flying.”’ It is to be sincerely hoped that spirit of altruism, approaching the most dangerous limits of: socialism, will not get a foothold here. Our country is built upon the enduring principle of grabbing everything in sight and holding to it with bulldog tenacity. To give anything away simply for the love of humanity and progress amounts almost to pusil- lanimity. this HERE ignorance of one's own homeliness is bliss, ‘tis folly to be beautiful. *L-PFE.* Life’s Literary Trust OME of our alleged competitors, chagrined, no doubt, because we considered them too insignificant to absorb, have spread the report that our trust was merely a stock- jobbing scheme and that we are not going to do any publishing at all. We have already put detectives on the trail of these competitors, with full power to act. As addi- tional refutation, but in no sense an apology, we offer the following list of books which are now ready: Complete Work rpurgated, by Hamilton Wright Mabie. This is handsomely bound in crushed straw- berry foulard with a dainty bow of the same shade on each volume. Posthumous Works of Rudyard ling (two volumes). Very rare Shakespeare Revised, by Bernard Shaw. Well done Dooley in English, This transla- tion has been accomplished under our direct supervision to meet a pop ular demand. Frenzied Finance, Revised Ver- sion, by Chancellor Day. This work contains a full and complete apology for every crime known to modern finance Divine George F. Financial Baer. to the Afflatus, by s is a compan. ion work It is expected that the two t ther will occupy the center table in many homes where the Bible is considered out of date above. Explorer Bug: THEY CAN CALL COOK A YAKER AND PEARY A FOURFLUSHER, BUNCH OY DOUBTERS WON'T IAVE ANYTHING ON ME. I'M GOING TO TAKE MY PROOF HOME with Me. Bur THAT “ar ouwire’s SHAY: “M'DEAK. BROUGHT ¥" SOM C’SATH’MUMS—cHRYSTHUMS— CURASYTHUMS—MANG IT! WiSIt I'D GoT ROSES.” How I Discovered the North Pole, by James Gordon Bennett Love Among the Artists, by Ferdinand Pinney Earle. This is especially recom mended to gilded youths and sirls Why I Am a Suffraget, by Mrs. O. H P. Belmont, This is recommended to philosophers who are searching for the summum bonum, Doctors | Have Met, by Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy. No error of mortal mind ever made the hit that this book has. Buy it and know the truth. The Girl in Lower Five, by a former contortionist, now a traveling book agent This is a delightful tale of how the au thor got into her sheath gown in a sleeping car without the aid of pro fanity. Other pared. In reply to numerous requests for our de luxe edition of President Roosevelt's Messages, in four hundred volumes, we wish to announce that only two sets were printed. These were quickly snapped up by Senator Lodge and Loeb. All those persons who have not yet sent us money for stock are expected to do so at once. chorus books are rapidly being pre comicbooks.com