Life — February 20, 1913 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- Shrill Voice: MAMMA, WAS PAPA AS SMALL AS THAT WHEN WE GOT HIM? interpretations, which has just appeared, is called “ Bub- bles of the Foam” (Putnam, $1.25), and is an ex- quisite setting forth of the half religious awe and ad- miration in which the Hindus held the desert and of the analogy they drew between its ever shifting mirage and the maze of illusion which we call life J. B. Kerfoot. Confidential | wy Book Guide Back Home, by Irvin S. Cobb. Nice warm-hearted stories of a Kentucky town, its leading citizens and sentiments, in the days after the war. Bubbles of the Foam, by F. W. Bain. See preceding page. The Business of Being a Woman, by Ida M. Tarbell. A series of pro-anti essays in which a gifted but near-sighted lady is found trying to keep her intellectual feet on diverging tracks of thought. Cobb's Anatomy, by Irvin S. Cobb. Roughly humorous treatises on human make-up. A sort of commentative cordu- roy—apt to make you sore, but sure to shake laughs out of the most stolid. The Green Overcoat, by Hilaire Belloc. A whimsical and highly amusing story of the bogus adventures of a foolish professor with sly satirical flin all concerned in them. Her Soul and Her Body. by Louise Closser Hale. Alone in Boston. The experiences of a country gitl student told by herself, Jade, by Berthold Lanfer. Av of original research and study of ex relics Life of Mirabeaw, by S. G. Tallentyre. A vivid portrait and an enthusiastic defense by a gifted writer and close stu- dent of eighteenth century France. The Man Who Came Back, by John Fleming Wilson. The story of an up grade journey from a Shanghai dive to the home of Dives. A Miscellany of Men, by G. K. Chesterton. A volume of I papers and collected journalism, unequally worthy of ervation. The Moth. by William Dana Orcutt. A most edifying story. The close calt of a silly social humming bird who made faces at Mrs. Grundy. The Mythological Zoo. by Oliver Herford. Funny draw- ings and witty verses fitting fabled monsters into contempo- rary affairs. Pancho McClish. by Herbert Coolidge. The story of an itinerant horse-breaker in the far west. Good genre work with a Fireside Companion finish, Scientific Sprague, by Francis Lynde, Stories of the op- erating department of the Red Butte Western that are good enough to carry their unconvincing “ detective” Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life, by Mrs. Alec Tweedie. The reminiscences of a popular English journalist. ble treatise, the result ated antique Chinese comicbooks.com