Life, 1911-07-06 · page 27 of 44
Life — July 6, 1911 — page 27: what you’re looking at
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This Life magazine page (p. 27) consists primarily of a **book review section**, not political satire. The main content discusses Stewart Edward White, a popular outdoor/wilderness writer whom the reviewer defends against professional frontiersmen and guides who dismiss amateur nature writers as inauthentic. The **two small cartoons** at bottom appear unrelated to the text: 1. **"A Safe Refuge"** (left): Shows a beetle or insect—appears to be a humorous illustration about insects seeking shelter, though context is unclear. 2. **"The Beetle: Come On, Mr. Bird, I Dare You!"** (right): Depicts confrontation between a beetle and bird, likely a simple joke about predator-prey dynamics or animal bravado. The page's satire is gentle literary criticism rather than political commentary. The title "The Worse in 1951" likely refers to recently published books being reviewed, though the exact reference remains unclear from visible text.
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THE WORSE fill the days there. And as it is quite possible that in a vot- ing contest as to the most popular writer about the bigger aspects of the out-of-door world Mr. White's name would head the polls, his latest volume should receive a wide and warm welcome. And Mr. White has earned his popularity. For he is not only a genuine lover of the open, but he has never allowed his literary interests to taint his outlook. There are probably few persistent invaders of the wilds who have not, in some moment of after-supper-camp-fire commu- nicativeness, heard old mountainecrs or woodsmen pour out upon Stewart Edward White’s head the vials of that virulent contempt that workaday professionals—especially those arch- individualists, the frontiersman, the hunter and the guide— reserve for the amateur, no matter how expert, who writes about their specialties. They are doubtless justified. But they are also mistaken. For they forget, or rather they cannot know, that the best of these amateurs do us other laymen a service that it is beyond the power of the profes- sional to render us, in that by putting our own inarticulate feelings into words they explain us to ourselves in terms of the wilds. A J. B. Kerfoot. CONFIDENTIAL BOOK GUIDE Across South America, by Wiram Bingham. An entertain account of explorations along the old Inca highway in the Andes. c hy Sce_preceding page. Skip the scenic rhap. » story of Dart. ler ou the Threshold, by Robert Hi results of an hypnotic experiment almost ruined to make a poor novel. Essays on Russia lists, by William Ly ens. The weird ine material fora short story 2 Phelps. A re IN markable analysis of Russian chai fiction and other critical papers. Lafcadio Hearn in Jopan, by Y gropingly expressed, eter as shown in the nat n 1, one Noguchi, Interesting, b impressions of Hearn as seen by alien eyes by Mary S. Watts. A “speaking likeness” of the est in the middle nineties, and a thoroughly companion- . Long Rell, by Mary Johnson itially wearisome ‘fiction-history of nevertheless, emerges a haunting Members ‘of the Family, by Ow development of Wyoming ‘in whi Virginian. Queed, by Henry Sydnor Harrison. The romance of an tric.” A good first novel by a new Southern writer, The Riding Master, by Volf Wyllarde. A tale of matrimonial mix-ups that will pass muster as a time killer. The Street of To-Day, by Tohn Mascfeld. See preceding page. The West in the East. by Price Collier. See preceding page. . Woman and Labor, by Olive Schreiner. The sex-philosophy and facelogic of the feminist movement as x bigsminded woman sees them. A long, plodding and is he Civil War; from which, jon_of the South militant Wister. Short stories of the appear characters from ‘The “ eccen- A SAFE REFUGE The : COME ON, MR, BIRD, T DARE you! comicbooks.com a