Life — November 3, 1910 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Mrs. nough ne de lived ing it The Literary Zoo. (Continued from page 742) than a fresh emotion is precipitated by the revelation that another of her fictions is ponderous enough to appear in the Revue des Deux Mondes. Yet all really great women possess this versatility. Cleopatra, having rioted through the streets of Alexandria with Mark Antony all night, sat upon the throne of Egypt with impeccable ma- jesty by day. : Automatic It was the ambition of the late Mark Twain to have an edition of his works in every American home, and the Harpers are doing what they can to realize that ambition. It is not a great ambition—there are now so few American homes. But suppose Mark Twain had longed to have a complete edition of his works in every Ameri- can automobile! With or Without Robert Hichens has the tremendous advantage over all the other celebrities now writing fiction in this world that he is totally destitute of the sense of humor. In a civilization well stocked With novelists possessing a sense of . humor, Hichens, by not having that, imparts a piquancy and an originality of matter to his latest achievement— “Bella Donna.” He illustrates the Darwinian hypothesis of successful variation, When all the individuals of a species are exactly alike except one who varies from the type, we have Unclean Car Straps are but One of the Daily Chances for Contagion ‘THE USE OP WoopBuRy’s 18 A CONSTANT PROTECTION FROM CONTAGIOUS SKIN DISEASES UNGLEAN car straps are but one of the daily chances for infection. Hotels. sleeping cars, theaters, elevators, crowded public places of all kinde—soiled money, mail matter, public drinking cups—we risk infection on every side. Af the skin is healthy it throws it off. The use of Woodbury’s Facial Soap keeps your skin in perfect health In addition to keeping the pores active and re- supplying what ie exhausted by the skin, it protects it and prevents contagion. Jt contains one of the best antiseptics to medical science. It kills germs instantly. It wards off ine fection. is a constant protection from contagious skin diseases. ‘Thousands use Woodbury's for its beautifying power, but you will especially appreciate tts antiseptic properties. —its value in keeping the skin healthy under the condl- tions that all akins are exposed to today. ‘Make it a habit to use Woodbury’s regularly, By keep- ing your skin in perfect health, 1t gives it a clearness and radiance that makes your complexion beautiful. Ite . a cake. No one hesitates at the price after thetr frst cate, WRITE FOR SAMPLE CAKE For 4¢ we send a sample cake of Wooddury's Facial Soap. For \0c samples of Woodbury’: " r Ni y JE Ni + 2605 8; Gr one pring Grove Ave., zzz Woodbury’s Facial Soap Lowry caxe, For sale by dealers everywhere One of the three great Pianos of the World. (Copyright, MCMX, by The Everett Plano Company.) what in botany is a “ sport” and what in literature is a Hichens. For what are the characteristics of a successful novelist? A gift for narrative, capac- ity to write dialogue, style, construc- tiveness in devising a plot and facility in differentiating character. These Hichens has, precisely as all good nov- elists have them, more or less, pre- cisely as all good novelists have the sense of humor, more or less. Hichens is the one good novelist without the sense of humor in even its rudi- mentary form, How piquant his situa- tions and his characters are, in conse- quence! His English heroes are so true to life and the elderly English heroine he bestowed upon literature a few years ago is so convincing! {t were difficult to say precisely which is rarer—a_ sense of humor, like Shakespeare’s, or a lack of the sense of humor, like Hichens’. Both are wonderful, Alexander Harvey. comicbooks.com