Life — March 10, 1910 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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“GREAT SCOTT! WITERE ARE YOU GOING WITH THAT mREAD? “MUSH—IM GOING TO THE BALL GUISED AS A CHICKEN SANDWICH.” MAUPASSANT Only $3.69; 8 Vols. Size 41-2 x7 inches. Ilustrated pis- 226 COMPLETE STORIES and PEARSON’S ear YEAR Delivered FREE Most Exceptional Offer, simply to get more people acquainted with our great National Magazine, which every month contains seven of the greatest lories money can buy, besides ex- austive articles on timely subjects. RENCH authors have written many lively tales which, because of false conventional modesty, have been, until recent tran; s. unknown to those who read’ only English. Prudish modesty and unfair prejudice have deprived us of the merriest and liveliest tales ever written. Maui was the one man in France who could write truly th of REAL PARISIAN LIFE so fasc rivet your attention to his merry tales, of everything else eter Guy de Maupassant's eventful career gave him ideas, ions and local color for his unsurpassed stories. Strong in imagination, overflowing with nat- ural enthusiasm and passion in his study of human Ife and phases of human conduct, things really ‘hap; pening—not as we imagine they might or as we would —BUT THE REAL DOINGS OF LIFE—is what Maupavant always gives us. 9 His dramatic ine tact. his situations and his climaxes are over- ‘wheiming. He always fixes upon the one thing ‘of most’ human-soul interest and makes it as vivid as any stage scene. 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As stimulants “in cases” are ob- viously beyond the beck of impecuni- ous genius, Dr. Smalley’s gencraliza- tion sheds no light on the impulses governing the bibulous school of poe- try. This leaves to the literary sta- tistician a field still fallow—but we forbear. * 2 8 It may be objected, moreover, that in relying on the sterile data of sta- tistics, Dr. Smalley does not sufficiently take into account the personal potation. In our own casual observations of the phenomena underlying thirst we have been led to hold, tentatively, the opin- ion that it may be variously excited or subdued, according to the special in- dividual impulse by the mere perusal of poetry. Thus on some persons— Mr. Gilbert Chesterton, for example-— Omar's advertisement of wine operates deterrently, a temperance tract; others—possibly including Mr. G. B. Shaw—find in this adulation of the grape a constant and irresistible re- minder that it is time to take another Persian highball. Lyric celebration of alcoholic beverages may appease a lat- ent thirst or fling wide to it the side- door of imagination. To palates sus- ceptible to the more refined titillations of song, insidious and compel'ing in- vitation lurks in the luscious lines of Keats: O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippo- crene, 484 With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stainéd mouth, Sing again, sing again, Nightingale! Few of us come to man’s estate would lightly part with such a heaven-sent thirst. Lucullus, had he known it, and its source, would straightway have joined the Audubon society. 8 Bacchanal songs may ,moisten the glands of the sons of Belial, easily se- (Continued on page 4535) SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN AND WHILE THE WORLD SHALL LAST MANKIND WILL NEED A GENTLE STIMULANT FROM TIME TO TIME HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE IS THE PERFECTION OF PURITY, AND AS A TONIC ITS HIGH QUALITY AND GEN- ERAL EXCELLENCE IS UNSURPASSED Sold at all frutcclana cafes ard ay f WM.'LANAHAN & SON, Daltiser comicbooks.com