Life — June 30, 1910 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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1190 waters of unconventional in dividualism in| which Mr Locke angled for 1 odd fish, Marcus Ordeyne, from the depths of which he drew his Beloved Vagabond and in the shallower reaches of which he caught his Septi- mus. It might indeed be argued from the appearance of his string that this par- ticular pond was by the way of being fished out. But, fisherman knows, that ash argument every would be His very a whopper. Simon is a to be b next cast m, And nwhile pan-fish by no sniffed at. He nber of Par pros- raise me: means is a young Mei political position liament with and a account, pects, soc comfortable bank being condemned to an who, early death by the medical profession, determines upon a six months’ orgy of altru- ism, and ends by upsetting not only the calculations of his physicians but his own HERE are two kinds of qui- LIVPE order of existence. makes, and we enjoy, quaintances; and over all ous working out of the plot shines the oblique humor of the au thor's appreciative observation. In short, Simon the Jester is that much sought for In the process he queer ac the semi-seri not unobvious tle ture. some nan : ze sness te menich the state: seldom come upon thing, an eph- incredibly make good the cause of a spit So-and.so has published a new CMCFal Story of quality—the product of a fire heroine against the arms and sover hook nay toute us. The fret Kindly talent's relaxation and not the — cign of Castile. In its sly mimicry of : Lind—the ‘Kind induced, for stfenwous achievement of unrelaxing in- archaic pompousness, in its smooth blend instavce, byake announcement, UST! of rodomontade and romance, in its mix 4 of a new novel by W. J. Locke—is made ing of satire and sincerity and its rol of a healthy, Oliver Twistish desire for J. C. SNAITH, tee oe tons) of ch acter, the more of what we have alre had and whose Broke of Co wakic. aH itl he shales ply en a comfortable confidence, born of expe wuden, wade; vubtly 27) Coacubtely tise é Rech ee rience, that we are about to get it. The or wrongly, so. ps ‘ee eo i daen sttam hay eee other kind—the kind fostered, for ex suasive a picture of ine te one mever knooa What ample, by news of a new story by J. C Puritan Englan hesmoments-eteniesmorencenin iota, Snaith—is compounded of curio: as and whose ceca ua Ge that it will Saad or con to which way a totally unpredictable cat cent Araminta, executing a ce incident in the:current iiterature Lis ‘N is going to jump and a lively belief, also startling face, landed us laughi 5 7039; based on experience, that it will land on and innocently cynical a shrewdly dis. all fours, The simultaneous appearan torted modern London, has transported T is on to state at the of Mr. Locke's Simon the Jester John us, in Fortune, into regions of pure ro J forefront of this paragraph th Lane, $1.50) and of Mr. Snaith's For ons nm which he is very much AG it is addressed to lovers of tune (Moffat, Yard, $1.50) offer us our and with the spirit of which b ad i not to lovers of books. Also pick of these literary gambits, and it will is sympathetically enamored, but where at there be many who profess perhaps prove to be the part of wisdom — he yet manages to confront us wit and call themselves dog lovers to choose both twinkle in his eve and with an a who, except in their own igno finger now and then laid hintingly 3 rance, scant claim to. the Simon the Jester is easily the least side his nose, The story is the partial “Do you." I once heard one of ( hefty of Mr. Locke's later fictions. autobiography of Miguel Jesus Maria de atter ask a friend of mine—“ do yc Compared to its immediate predecessors Sarda y Boegas. a naive sprig of Spanish — keep a do *“Well,"" said my friend, its plane is nearer by many units of — chivalry who, during a not too minutely “Hobo and I live together, if that is measurement to the surface of those specified crisis in his country’s history, what yo ea If you are this kind Drew, edited by Bouk White from fra: he crude oil of American finance The Diamond Master, by Jacques Futrelle. “A thrilling story of a flurry ip the jewel market written for the silly season. he F Mrs. Halton, by E. F. Benson. Homeopathic pellet plot moistened with dialogue by J.C. Snaith. See above. Essays on Modern Novelists, by William Lyon Ph of Yale University. Interesting critical ‘papers from the point of view of a liberal and progressive Puritanism The Book of Dai ments of an original diary The History of Mr. Polly, by UH. G. Wells. Mow a round peg escaped from a square hole. ‘A delightful bit of serious fun, The Isle of Whispers, by E. Lawrence Dudley. A wild-eyed tale of adventitious adventure. Lady Merton, Colonist, by Mrs. Humphry Ward. The romantic souvenir of a visit to Canada The Master Girl, by Ashton Hilliers. A new woman of the Stone Age. A highly entertaining yar Men and Dogs, by Henry C. Merwin, See My Friend the Indian, by James McLaughlin. The interesting recollections of the one-time head of ihe Standing Rock Agency of the leisurely atts. A long, Ohio. Whitman. The istic novel of the An excellent re New York life by George Cary Eggleston. 1 Recollections of a Varied Lift teresting literary Sali ences, ple Thurston. The inside history Thurston's best work : Bishop, by E. by W. J. Locke. See above. oof Red Butic Western, by ncis Lynde, A mix polite melodrama iden, Phillpotts, A study in sets out in search of ennobling adven Pendragon, Nullepa the heart to laugh at both of th To him are gathered Sir Richard a gargantuan English gen of fortune, and the Marquis de t,a French knight errant, with appreciate and the wit to m; and together they of a dog lover get Henry C | Merwin's Dogs and Men (Houghton Mifilin, 60 cents) id it. It is (reprinted on the h influence that the mals have on cach other, the author knows dogs loves them, and, as they say | in the country, “you two to krow each other."* J. B. Kerfoot and re: only an from the nizing Atlantic) two a wat | and ought ORIGIN OF WOMAN A SPARE RID" comicbooks.com