Life, 1910-07-07 · page 40 of 48
Life — July 7, 1910 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **literary and advertising content**, not political satire. The top features a **Brighton Garter advertisement** for men's suspenders, showing four styles (Flat Clasp, Feather Weight, Lace Grip, Double Grip) with technical descriptions—standard product marketing of the era. The main editorial content is "The Literary Zoo," discussing poetry and sonnets, referencing **Tolstoy, Browning, Keats, Chapman, and Longfellow**—literary criticism about whether obvious versus obscure poetry works better. The centerpiece advertises **"The Wild Olive,"** a novel by the author of "The Inner Shrine," reporting it's the best-selling novel in America. Publishers highlight its superiority over the previous work through favorable reviews. Lower sections include ads for **Brentano's book boxes** and **Harper & Brothers** publishing. There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page—it's a typical early 20th-century magazine blend of literature discussion and period advertising.
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the giant, on the other hand, was sel. dom or never obvious. Poetry, ia other words, is concerned with the at. tempt to voice the inarticulate; the only intelligible poet is the one whe writes jingles on Eternity. So far, we believe, Professor Saints. bury would agree with us. We wist we could be as sure of his support an sympathy in the painful confession of our limitations which we are about make public. Avowing as we do ov belief that a certain obscurity is ip fl Yields and clings as you move, separable from true song, we are bet eens plexed by a metrical problem presented in the May Scribner's. In a series of a Sey 14 lines beginning with capitals, anf Sees ‘more: solid races wear more “Satis ¥ bs. Pht otherwise technically set forth as i slong ‘wear silk, in plain or fancy effects; t very ligt t sonnet, Mr. Edwin Arlington Robinsog very flat, and heavily nickeled 10. prevent rust.” SH by dealers Everywh ere— undertakes to adumbrate an_ incides ‘sample pairs prepaid’ on receink of price. . Ras of manifest tragic import, and to te us “ How Annandale Went Out.” Mz Robinson, who was long ago officia approved by Mr. Theodore Rooscve as a poet of parts, was evidently in # wrote—and he did write heaps of it— was of the obvious sort. Browning, (Continued on page 41) athe remarkable new novet by the author of “The anner Shrine’’ The Secret of a Sonnet liked most in poetry we should probably say “the obvious.” We do not go so far as Tolstoy, who objects to pretty This week—four day = than a early all t the eral ground month since it was published—** The shat Uhesfucts- could’ be cove aucezictl? Wild Olive” is reported the best sell- reli dagetechala sana italy panied ing novel in the United States. This stated in prose. Poetry, indeed, as we is the verdict from country-wide understand it, ceases to be such when sources of trade information. ‘* The Wild Olive’’ is the best and its success e - ° e. F ve2 is greater than ‘*The Inner Shrine"’ be uttered otherwise. Forswear the because the story is greater—better, metrical form, and language limps in finer. “The Wild Olive” has a er futility when the soul strives to broader basis of plot, a nobler concep- Tolstoy, it seems likely, read | tion of character, a higher idealism. Tennyson in a translation; and no one It is—above all else—a remarkably human story. has ever really translated poetry. Keats pretended that Chapman had | The Promise of * The laser Shrine’ : done it for Homer; but—well, just ask more than borne out second novel Andrew Lang what he thinks of ii doen’ turn out tobe the book of the year we shall miss our guess—but we don’t think we shall.” —New York Press, the song or sentiment it clothes can worst poetry that Longfellow ‘Tt is assured of a success not inferior to that of ‘The Inner Shrine.’ Of the two novels we place * The Wild Olive’ first.” BRENTANO’S —New Orleans Pleayune. BON VOYAGE | Splendidly Illustrated by Radically different in For Steamer Gifts. ¢ Lucius Hircucock, treatment, it is even more dra and other Gift « the other story. From the opeaisg $2.60, $6.00, $7.60, $10.00 Post 8vo. — Cloth, $1.50. it seizes the reader's attention, and 2 DEN 1G 6th Ave & #7tb St. isn’t released until the last word is BRENTANO'S ™ 820 $04 HARPER & BROTHERS ~ San Franatsce Cl 7) comicbooks.com