Life — November 3, 1910 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Dr. Carver (Noted Wing Shot) Banishes Burglar Fear. This is part of a letter from Dr. Carver, the greatest wing shot in the world: «Please make me three Savage Automatic Pistols, 32 caliber, highly engraved, pearl handles, gold plated. Make them as artistic as *wssible, as I desire to present them to lady friends who have lived in perfect horror of burglars all their lives. “1 would like to say to you, gentlemen, that in all my shooting experience I never had so much downright pleasure with any weapos as I have had with the Savage Automatic. I have shot it by the hour."* The New Savage Automatic is quick as light and aims easy as pointing your forefinger. ‘The man or woman with the positive working, positively safe (guaranteed) Ten-Shot Savage Automatic can rely on instinct to shoot straight in the dark. That's why the burglar has no chance even when a woman is aiming it. That's why Dr. Carver, expert judge of weapons, ordered three for three women. The ex-Sheriff of Dodge, Kan. ‘‘ Bat’? Masterson, wrote “The Tenderfoot’s Tum.’ For your dealer's name we'll send the book free, also a handsome book about the New Savage Rifles. THE NEW SAVAGE automatic SAVAGE ARMS CO., 8811 Savage Avenue, | Paintings of Old Masters The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 741) American world is not a mad world, and so it yields no Dantes. Far more seriously than has hitherto been deemed expedient must we henceforth ask, “ Who's loony now?” A Coming Novelist A recent work with the name of President Taft upon the title page as its author is made up entirely of his speeches and letters, The next book by President Taft ought to be a novel. He has the genius for narrative. Think of his midnight meeting with Vice-President Sherman prior to the short-lived triumph of that statesman over Theodore Roosevelt. How con- summately Mr. Taft told the story in his letter to Griscom! 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Personality and Fiction Nearly every novelist of note in Fngland has said his word in the fierce controversy over the length of novels. Should they be long or should they be short? Locke, Hichens, Wells —these and others involved themselves in a discussion that proved sterile. They all took a wrong point of view because they all neglected the personal equation. It depends upon who writes the novel. The fictions of Maric Corelli ought to be very short, indeed. Shaw said he would like to sell his novels by the pound instead of by the size. It would pay him better. But can his fiction be as heavy as all that? Hichens suspects that novels ought to be long when he writes them. Doubt- ae less—but should they not have been made shorter by the time we sit down te read them? Awful To think that the fiction of Mrs, Edith Wharton is demoralizing enough to be translated into the Revue de Paris! 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