Life, 1913-11-27 · page 39 of 40
Life — November 27, 1913 — page 39: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **magazine advertisement**, not a satirical cartoon page. It announces that former President Theodore Roosevelt will contribute exclusive articles to *Scribner's Magazine* about an upcoming 1914 expedition into the Brazilian and Paraguayan wilderness by canoe and on foot. The *New York Sun* quotation frames Roosevelt in his "most attractive role"—as a naturalist and outdoorsman rather than as a controversial politician. This positioning suggests Roosevelt, recently out of office (he left in 1909), was a polarizing figure whose political views divided Americans, but whose adventurer persona appealed across party lines. The page also advertises other *Scribner's* content: a famous American author's first novel, memoirs titled "Madame Waddington," and short stories by prominent writers like Rudyard Kipling and Richard Harding Davis. **No satire is evident here**—this is straightforward promotional material leveraging Roosevelt's celebrity and adventurous reputation to boost magazine subscriptions.
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SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE 1914 Important Announcement Theodore Roosevelt Will contribute to Scribner’s Magazine the account of the trip of adventure and re- search which he will take in the early months of 1914 into the Paraguayan and Brazilian interiors, where he expects to travel by canoe and the great tropical for- ests which so few white men have ever trav- ersed. His experiences, observations of the country, the people, and the animal life will appear solely in Scribner’s Magazine Begin your Subscription with on foot through From the New York Sun COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN HIS MOST ATTRACTIVE ROLE A side of the man that appeals to many of his countrymen who do ~ There Roosevelts, tractive than when he eaves civilization and con- troversy behind him to plunge into the wilderness and enjoy it as a naturalist, lover of scenery and sportsman. No living American can be better qualified to explore the wilds of South America and to describe its flora and fauna and its savage and tremendous scenery with athetic and kindling interest than Theodore Roosevelt. The Beauttful Christmas Sertbner An illustrated Prospectus will be sent free upon request $3.00 a Year CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK PETER J. CAREY, PRINTER, NEW YORK A Famous Writer’s First Long Novel During the coming year the Maga- zine hopes to b the first long novel. by American author who for many s has had one of the largest audiences among contempo- rary writers, His short stories are among the best known wherever the age is read, and his first novel will be awaited with a very uncommon interest. A detailed announcement will follow later. Waddington First. Years as a_ French- The political, diplomatic, pects of these years, im- portant pe zes of the times in diplomacy, li ture, and art, the people met at various state functions, private dinners, balls, the opera, the theatres, are commented upon in the author’s own inimitable and delight- ful way. Articles by Price Collier Price Collier, whose “England and the English from an American Point of View,” “The West in the from an American Point of Vie “Germany and the Germans from an ican Point of View,” were veri- literary sensations, revealing a ritic Of the nations, wil ¢ papers about SW EDEN NORWAY, Short Stories Rudyard Kipling, Sir Giibert er, Henry van Dyke, Richard Harding Davis, Katharine Holland Brown, Jam “onnolly, rR S. Andrews, Gordon Arthur Smith, Mary Synon, Barry Benefield, Abbe Carter Goodloe, and many others— A remarkable group of stories by Katharine Fi lerton Gerould, author “Vain Oblations,” incliding one of the best Ghost Stories of years, A Short Serial: Maje A Love Story by Armistead C, Gor- don, A tender idyllic story of the old South.