Life, 1910-01-13 · page 28 of 36
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This page is primarily advertising, featuring several product and publication advertisements typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. The main content piece is a literary critique titled "Literary Zoo" (continued from page 103), discussing what appears to be Mr. Pollard's critical work. The author laments that serious literary criticism cannot compete against commercial puffery in a nation that produces little quality poetry or essays and fails to recognize genuine talent like Ambrose Bierce. The piece criticizes both the cultural environment and Pollard's own writing style as "amateurish and flabby." A separate note titled "The Doom of the Novel" references historian Hilaire Belloc's London lecture arguing that the novel as a literary form is becoming outdated and will be replaced by other media. The advertisements include Burpee's seeds, Abbott's Bitters, cruise line offers, and prominently, Scientific American magazine—which positions itself as essential for staying informed about world progress and scientific advancement.
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You will be satisfied with the products of Burpee’s “Seeds that Grow” Shall we mail you our New Complete Catalog? W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Burpee Building, Philadelphia. The Doom of the Novel Mr. Hilaire Belloc who often goe cab riding with Mr. G. K. Cheste but who is nevertheless better as an historian, has been deli lecture in London in which he hazard; the opinion that the novel as a form of easing aromatic for all beverages. ater, Atwine merchants’ and druggists’. Makes the best cocktail. Aids digestion, A literary expression is outworn, ané that at no distant day the author wil spirit an employ some other medium. A delightful tonic and invigor- ze (Continued om page 105) Important to see that it is Abbott's, ABBOTTS Literary Zco (Continued from page 103) of compromise has moved him one inch from an intrenchment fortified by le taste, resolute opinion and It will be seen impe: serene self-conlidence. that his influence must have been con- siderable, despite occasional breaks in the continuity of his service as critic. Yet what can one man do unaided in the face of a press everywhere given over to puffery and the advertisement of commerce? What can one man do in a country which produces no poetry, no essays, no critics of the first calibre ?—a country too ignorant to ac- claim Mr. Ambrose Bierce as the peer of Poe and Hawthorne and Maupas- sant. Is it strange that Mr. Pollard is oppressed by a sense of isolation? The “Case” as he puts it seems to us quite hopeless. Our critics are be- neath contempt. our writers no longer practice an art, but follow a trade. Nothing for a true critic to praise. and nobody on the job were it otherwise. Behold the dyer’s hand subdued to what it works in; Mr. Pollard’s own sytle amateurish and flabby. his method crude, his self-conceit absurd, his ar- gument overdrawn and propped with trivialities. In swimming against the obvious tide of medocrity we fear he has remained too long in the water. WT. L Some Excellent Rooms still on Sale for CLARK'S CRUISE OF THE “CLEVELAND” 18,000 TONS, BRAND NEW, AND SUPERBLY FITTED. Rounb tit WorLD FROM SAN FRANCISCO, FEB.5, 1910. | One Steamer for the Entire Cruise ‘neo, Java, Burma, unusual chance to ANnual! ORIENT CRUISE February Grosser Kurfuerst," 73 days, in- cluding 2% Palestine, $400 up, Including FRANK C. CLARK, Times Bldg. New York | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN is a mirror that once a week every interesting item of the world’s progress, No paper is so broad in its scope; none so valuable to the a who would be well informed and conversant with the world’s affairs, You may read dozens of periodicals but they will not jive the reliable information and entertainment found in the SCIENTIFIC ICAN. It stands alone in its field. It is not a dry, technical jours, dealing in uninteresting facts and figures—it is news, live, wide awake, interesting, entertaining. Everything new in science and art; every new discovery and inveo- 3 the latest information of industrial development and scientific research—all ae told in a bright, interesting and untechnical way. ie bt The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN searches = of ite earth for news that is interesting to everyone who wants to be in touc! the world’s progress. correspondents are in all the leading countries of the world. $1,000 would not pay the tubscription price of the papers that contribute a part of the information you get in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Subscription price, $3.00 per year ‘The Scientific American Reference Book FE R E E With One Year’s Subscription This book is entirely different from anything of its kind ever published. It is better— more complete—more reliable. ‘Compiled after 50 years’ experience with the wants of others. Contains 500 pages of the most recent and useful information ; 50,000 facts, often accompanied by unique diagrams and comparisons, Revised by eminent statisticians and forernment officials, A book for every-day reference—more useful than an encyclopedia ause you find what you want in an instant in a more condensed form. This book i handsomely bound and sells for $1.50, but you get it free while it lats wih a year’ subscription to the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Send $3.00 to-day and get this and the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN every week for one year. Detailed prospectus and sample copy of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN on request. Address Subscription Department No. F. MUNN & CO., Inc., Publishers, 361 Broadway, New York comicbooks.com