Life, 1910-06-23 · page 32 of 40
Life — June 23, 1910 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **no political cartoons**—it's primarily book reviews and advertisements from an early 1900s issue of Life magazine. The main content includes: **"Dr. Thorne's Idea"** — a book review by J.A. Mitchell praising a novel by John Ames Mitchell about criminals, ministers, and a circus, noting its literary merit and individual storytelling style. **"The Literary Zoo"** — a literary essay discussing Herman Melville's overlooked status. The writer argues Melville was a better storyteller than poet, and notes that *Typee* and *Moby Dick*—written by a man who actually lived among South Sea peoples—remain readable decades later. The piece wonders which contemporary "lesser novelists" will still be read fifty years hence. **Advertisements** include Old Overholt Rye whiskey and the July issue of *Recreation* magazine, promoting outdoor activities like fishing, hunting, and camping. The page reflects early 20th-century literary culture and leisure pursuits rather than political satire.
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LIFE: “+ — and Caught the Outstretched Hands" Dr. THORNE’S IDEA By J. A. MITCHELL Author of The Last American, Amos Judd, The Pines of Lory, ete., etc. One Dollar, Net Like R. L. 8.’s worl, “Dr. Thorne’s Idea * (George H. Doran & Co., $1) is quite “full of a number of things." ‘There are criminals and their crimes and their victims, and a very human and humanly wise minister, and a bishop, whose lecs, like those of Sir Willoughby Patterne, are entirely in character, and a circus, both before and be- hind the scenes, and a boy with honest eyes and a criminal heredity and a loyal-souled little girl with a dissipated doll and a ring that—but are too many to name them all, and, besides, & mere list can give no idea with what {nterest the Euthur, ohn ‘Ames Bitchell hue clothed all of ‘More than most noveis, it has individual them. ¥, Times, ity in the manner of the telling.—4. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPA: 17 West 31st Street, New York MAN asitore! "Pictures with Interesting History Done tn full color by the leading artist of Coaching ant Sporting scenes. Twelve subjects in the set. Old Philadeiphi® Taverns Each print breathes a tale of Colonlal times. Un" equalled for Hall and Biliiard Room decoration. Size of each Ix 14 Inches per net. Send 4 cents for a full set in miniature and story of each famous location. The Robert Smith Company, 25th & Poplar Sts., Philadelphia. The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 1154) aged to suggest when he sang of great guns. Neither Dana nor Bryant include Melville in their anthologies. He was, we think, a better story teller than a poet; and it is interesting to observe that though a “lesser novelist” of a past generation (he was born in New York in 1819), the most interesting of his tales are as readable as ever. The Evening Sun 1s been running “Typee” as its daily serial story. It is what some of our publishers would probably call a “fact novel,” as dis- tinguished from the more or less obso- lete tale of pure imagination; and we can fancy how the posters would flare to-day with announcements of a fresh story by a vivid writer who had actual- ly lived among the cannibals of the South Seas. “Typee” and “ Moby Dick” are the work of a man who really followed the and saw what he described. Both are good fare for the commuter. We should like to know who among our “lesser novel- ists” of to-day will be read, serially, fifty years hence by the Manhattan commuter borne to the Adirondacks on that miraculous monorail which is to make our “lightning expresses” seem so old-fashioned. WoT. Le OLD OVERHOLT whiskey of the very finest quality, mild and mellow as | RECREATION | The Round-up Number 'HAT is what the newsdealers cali the July number of RECREATION. There really are no cattle in it — thot plenty of skylarking couboys and pO ae Tt contains ION’S 1910 Yound-up of information for vacationists ; a mighty big round-up, too. From salmon fishing in Labra- dor to quail shooting in the San Domingo valley, ’way down in Lower California, and from mountain climb- ing in| Alaska to touring around Lake Champlain ii ina roadcart, is a grown-up, man’s size “circle,” as the cowboys say. No matter where you live or how you purpose spending your vacation—or even if you will have no vacation—you will be ped if you buy a copy of this splendid und-Up Number. Special articles on Camping, Canoeing, Tramping, Boating, Fishing, "Hunting, Ama: teur Exploration, Mountain Climb- ing, Horseback Trips, etc., ctc. ‘Timely irformation concerning where to Bi how to go and what to take. L of i of iesparaton, bound to help you have time — the jolliest, cheeriest, 4 oe companion just now. All news-stands — a quarter, Ask for RECREATION FOR JULY Critics HE late H. C. Bunner, whose least considered trifles did not lack the literary touch, once complained in a public letter that’ our drama critics were too severe. contrasted their asperity with the polite pronouncements of !i' erary reviewers, and seemed to thick that the reporters of stage perfor (Continued on page 1161) comicbooks.com