Life — June 30, 1910 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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elle ee The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 1202) She has disquieting eyes. She must in jeweled prose-poems or play the greater Cho- pin or love to listen to the ululating Debussy. Perhaps Ferdinand Sinzig dripped. on the Keyboard Ravel's“ Mirroirs"” as she posed for Steichen! Perhaps Sinzig did drip. It is not A for us to say, since even with Mr. Liqueur Huncker it is mere surmise. But Pe : while. We, do. inal -preiende tae ape res BUILDERS Paris Sid havesniever cin Secale Ch artreux OF THE BES —GREEN AND YELLOW— beauty show, we do know what we like, and—well, tastes in “exotic AUTOMOBILE BODIES beauty,” as in humor and other things, continue to differ. Homer liked ’em ox-eyed. There is quite an unac- countable rage for the Christy girl. The French—connoisseurs in all things THE CLIMAX WA .J2 MV ?: 509-15 West 56th Street NEW YORK feminine—admire la nug c OF EPICUREAN ENJOYMENT dril curls do cluster. we—until the girl turned ar we realized it was neck or noth So, with all respect to the lady of * Lotus Screen,” if the truth must be told, we took her for a gentleman a certain self-made poct apacity for giving us infinite pains is exceeded by no other indus- trious genius However, we Mr. Huneker, th able, i: the most versatile, of critics. May he long continue to take the air, re- cordir pressions as he goes. i ¢ lies in his never be F ncompatible with ton’s “own idea and work,” as Mr Owen Wister has pointed out and John Jay had already testitied enwraps our ‘ ; ; Lire had occasion once before to set d literary Solons with all the dee : aright this misapprehension concerning Washington's literary ability, which, as the Letters show, w: gh order. We reec end th Washington's Letters Springfield Republican, which, apropos of Mr. Taft, remarks somewhat ob- ID George Washington write his D Be ae mw : securely: “Alexander Hamilton wrote own “Farewell Address"? Of oe : : ss President George Washington's fare- well address, but that fact makes it no less George Washington's.” Some day—if Prof. Charles William Wallace's industry in grubbing for old documents does not slacken—it may nity and formal embrace of a wet IManket IW. T. Larned. urse he did, as any one can sce for himself by looking up the Letters— long mutilated, but at last assembled in their true form and order, in four- teen volumes, by Worthington Chaun- cey Ford. There will be found the ewios “ike : Address, drafted and criticised by evelop ‘that _ Shakespeare's) ‘cles STRAWS SHOW WHICIE WAY THE WIND Fi Pe “wrote” the plays, the poet merely ied | Hamilton, yet nevertheless Washing- oN Y bLows providing the scenario, at second-hand, from certain French and Italian novels. EY NS Already Half a Million People Read and Enjoy But while breath remains we shall Current Literature Magazine — Se ar A Review of the World fully revised by the sonneteer’s secre- tary, or vice versa. As well suppose that Mr. Roosevelt’s remarks at the Sorbonne were—but let your own imagination work. W.T.L “All the Magazines in One’ 0 WHY DON'T YOU READ IT, TOOT Well guarantee it will please you If you're reader of “LIFE.” We review a whole wor'dtul| Also: Tour Spatn. Sicily. ttaly (Christmas in Rom) of magazines and newspapers for you and aave you a lot of time—make it interesting, too. Sample copy and special subscription | De POTTER TOURS Giz) 82 Broad offer on request. 140 West 29th Street, New York City. year) NEW YOI comicbooks.com