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This page mixes literary gossip with period advertising. The left column discusses writing practices and literary figures—Thomas Carlyle adopting motorist culture, and a sensational "revelation" that "George Eliot" (the celebrated author of *The Mill on the Floss*) is actually Marian Evans, a woman. The text notes Evans adopted a male pseudonym to ensure reviewers treated her work with the same respect they'd give a male writer—a pointed commentary on Victorian gender bias in literary criticism. The page's main advertisement promotes the Southern Pacific "Sunset Route" train service to California, marketed as an exotic destination despite modern accessibility. A smaller ad hawks "Mothersill's" seasickness remedy, claiming endorsements from prominent figures. The satirical point: while society celebrates discovering "George Eliot's" true identity, the very need for such deception reveals entrenched prejudice against female authors.

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‘OTHERSILL' adopted by unique. Having selected the title for a poem, he first takes a sheet of paper and lays it on his desk. He next draws his chair up to the desk and sits down. Then, taking a pen in his right hand, he dips it (the pen) in the ink and writes the first verse. When the first is finished, and not until then, he writes the second, and so on, until the poem is completed. es 8 8 Thomas Carlyle, the Scotch humor- ous writer, has become an ardent motorist. He has named his new 4o horsepower limousine “ Teufels- dréckh” after the hero of his suc- cessful Sartor Resartus. . «© 8 The literary world is all agog over a recent revelation concerning the identity of one of our most popular writers. Our readers are, of course, familiar with that delightful little book, The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot. It now appears, if cer- tain recent dispatches are to be be- lieved, that “George Eliot” is really a young English lady named Marian ans. Miss Evans, who is an ad- e of “Votes for Women,” ex- plains that she adopted this nom de plume in order to insure her book's being accorded the same treatment by the reviewers as would the work of a male writer Next month we shall publish an in- terview with Miss Evans upon the question, “Should artists marry voe: John Ruskin, whose Modern Paint- ers led last season's best sellers, is SICKNES Prevented—Stopped after thorough tests, is now officially ‘ ractically all the Great Lakes and New York Steamship Companies running south, and many Transatlantic lines. Four years ago Mr. Mothersill gave a personal demonstra- toa of his remedy onthe English Channel, Irish Sea, and the Baltic, and received unqualified endorsement from leading Papers and such people a8 Bishop Taylor Smith, Lord North- cliff, and hosts of doctors, bankers and professional men. Let- ters from personages of international renown—people we all together with much valuable information, are contained ig an attractive booklet. which will be sent free upon receipt of your name and address. Mothersill’s is guaranteed not to contain cocaine, morphine. opium, chloral, or any coal-tar products. so cent box is suffi- it for twenty-four hours. 1.00 box for a Transatlantic Voyage. Your druggist keeps Mothersill you from his wholesaler. or will obtain it for i If you have any trouble getting the fenuine. send direct to the Mothersill Remedy Co., 405 Scherer Bidg.. Detroit, Mich. Also at 19 St. Bride Street, Lond Montreal. New York, Paris, Milan, Hamburg. Wonder Route to _= the Land of Wonders This is an age of going everywhere, of But familiarity has not lessened the witchery of California. California’s gay cities, her mountains, her sunshine, fruits and flowers, are fabled See that your tickets read Southern Pacific | : knowing every clime. | yet actual. | Sunset Route Three Elegant Trains Sunset Express, Daily comforts which give edge to your enjoyment. F | Oil burning locomotives eliminate smoke and cinders. Rock-ballasted, dust-free r bed. Electric block safety signals. These advantages, with the genial climate, make this the natural winter route. Write for entertait 1158 Broadway (2ith Street) hard at work on a new book, Ethics of the Dust. A friend of his who has read part of the manuscript declares that “it grips the interest right at the start, and holds it right to the finish It is a fine tale; full of red blood and action, with a charming love story cleverly threaded through the intrica- cies of the plot.” The author of Arséne Lupin is threatening suit against Charles Dick- | New Orleans to Los Angeles and San Francisco Sunset Limited, Train de luxe, Weekly Sunset Mail, Daily The preferred route. Not only for the picturesque country traversed but for the train ing books. Sent free. L. H. NUTTING, General Eastern Passenger Agent Room 12, 366 Broadway (Franklin Street) NEW YORK ens, the author of Oliver Twist on grounds of plagiarization. Mr. Dick- ens refuses to discuss the charges. 7 2 8 E. Allen Poe, whose recent con- troversy with the W. C. T. U. at- tracted widespread attention, has just published a volume of detective sto- ries, The Murders in the Rue Morgue. A prominent critic pronounces it “the best since Sherlock Holmes.” comicbooks.com 1 Broadway (Bowling Green)