Life, 1912-11-28 · page 34 of 44
Life — November 28, 1912 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is **not a cartoon page**, but rather a **table of contents/advertising page** for Scribner's Magazine (MCMXIII = 1913). The page announces upcoming serialized content, emphasizing prestige literary and intellectual content: - **Edith Wharton's novel** about American social conditions - **John Galsworthy's work** (celebrated British author) - **Price Collier's series on Germany**—notably written with "frank" appreciation despite pre-WWI tensions - **William James's letters**, emphasizing his influence and friendships - **Panama Canal coverage** by an official commission secretary, celebrating American engineering achievement and health improvements The **implicit satire/point**: Scribner's positions itself as the magazine for serious, cultivated Americans—featuring major literary figures and progressive achievements (the Canal as "benevolent" American intervention). This reflects early-20th-century American confidence in both cultural sophistication and expansionist projects, before WWI disrupted such optimism. No individual caricatures appear on this page.
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SRE: SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE NIC WIE IIrr In the January number of 1913 will be begun a novel by EDITH WHARTON, The Custom of the Country, which will run through the year. Like the author's memorable “The House of Mirth,” it will deal with present American social conditions and problems in an absorbing story of remarkable power, which will excite wide discussion. Later will be published, as a serial extending through more than half the year, The Latest Work of John Galsworthy. A story of striking originality both in conception and form. JOHN FOx’s fine story, The Heart of the Hills, will continue into the early months of 1913. Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View, by PRICE COLLIER, author of “England and the English from an American Point of View.” The author's English articles created a notable sensation. This new series on Germany will still further establish his reputation as one of the most brilliant and keen-sighted critics of recent times. Nothing has been written of modern Germany, or of the Emperor, with the frank- ness and yet with the cordial appreciation and good-will of these articles or with the same shrewd wit and disregard of anything but what the author believes to be the truth. Two articles made up of The Letters | English Friends: From the Letters and Journals of Charles Eliot Norton. of William James, the famous | Faited py Sara Norton and M. A. DeWolfe Howe. psychologist. Edited by his brother, Henry James. Of very special Interest are the “‘walks and talka") with Carlyle. They give.a new idea of the kindliness and keen sense of humor of the great Scotchman. Among Few men of recent times have exerted so wide an influence for good | other friends of whom, he gives impressions are Ruskin, Dickens, the Brownings. or had so many loyal friends all over the world. Goorne Menry: Teves, Burne-Jones, John Stuart Mill, John Morley, and many The Wonderful Panama Canal. Three articles, by JOSEPH BUCKLIN BISHOP, Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission, profusely illustrated. THE FRENCH AT PANAMA. The first complete and authentic narrative of the effort of the French, under the direction of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, to construct an Inter-oceanic Canal at Panama. It is a chapter in human endeavor which for dramatic and tragic interest has rarely been equalled. THE WORLD'S PLAGUE SPOT ABOLISHED. The story of the way in which the Americans made the Isthmus of Panama a health spot of the earth. BENEVOLENT DESPOTISM AT PANAMA. This will contain a full and graphic description of the way in which the U.S. Government, operating through Col. George W. Goethals, has cared for its great army of Canal workers and their families and dependents. She Christmas “Scribner is a number of extraordinary interest and beauty Send for a Prospectus. 25c. a number; $3.00 a year CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK comicbook s-com