Life, 1913-08-28 · page 39 of 40
Life — August 28, 1913 — page 39: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a **title page advertisement** for Scribner's Magazine, not a cartoon. It announces upcoming content for the next year (appears to be 1913, for 1914 publication). The key announcement is that **Theodore Roosevelt** will contribute exclusive articles to Scribner's about his planned 1914 expedition into the Paraguayan and Brazilian interior—a major publishing coup. Roosevelt promises firsthand accounts of his South American travels plus a series on African animal life histories (lion, elephant, rhino, hippo, buffalo). The page lists other coming features: poetry, historical pieces on Washington's founding, a Franco-German War story, patriotic fiction, and articles on art and education. **Context for modern readers**: This represents Roosevelt's post-presidency celebrity status (he left office in 1909). His exotic expeditions and writings were major publishing events. Scribner's was leveraging Roosevelt's fame to attract subscribers—a common editorial strategy for prestigious magazines of that era.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Scribner’s Magazine Important Announcement for next year HEODORE ROOSEVELT will contribute to Scribner’s Magazine the account of the trip which he will take in the early months of 1914 into the Paraguayan and Brazilian interior, where he expects to travel by canoe and on foot through the great South American tropical forest. His experiences, ob- servations of the country, the people, and the animal life will appear solely in Scribner’s Magazine. In September will appear the first of Four Articles by Theodore Roosevelt The Life History of the African Lion Fully illustrated followed by other articles on the Life Histories of the Great African Animals—The Elephant, The Rhino and the Hippo, The Buffalo and Giant Eland. Of these articles he says: “This and the following articles are in no sense hunting articles. I have elsewhere described the chase of the big game. Far more interesting than the chase itself is the observation, the study of the life histories of the strange and wonderful creatures of the wilderness. These articles represent an attempt to present the life histories of the most interesting among the beasts of the African jungles; they are based mainly on first-hand observation, but are also in part based on the cumulative observations of many other men.” Daybreak in the Grand Canyon 4 ?em 6y Henry van Dyke The Romantic Founding of Washington 4 Thomas Nelson Page The little known and eventful story of how the National Capital came to be built on the shores of the Potomac. A Gallic Victory, by Maarten Maartens A highly romantic story of the Franco-German War with a remarkable series of illustrations by Castaigne. Stories---Anna Lipinsky’s Star Flag, « patriotic story, by Barry Benefield A humorous sea-story The Battle-Cruise of the Svend Foyn by James B. Connolly. ilustrated Mural Painting in America J E. H. Blashfield Illustrations from photographs and sketches of the author’s work. The Progressive Ideal in School Management Jy Francis E. Leupp The Modern Girls’ School and its Methods $3.00 a year; 25 cents a number CHAS. SCRIBNER’S SONS, Fifth Avenue at 48th Street, New York (C__Peren J. Caney, Painter, New York > comicbooks.com