Life — December 17, 1914 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: Mr. Simonds: War Editor (Continued from page 1130.) tered the details of a great battle. He is interested in war as news, wants to know what is going on and who is winning, how many have been killed and what is next to be expected. We have had no great war under close observation here for more than fifty years, and only a compara- tively few readers of books know our Civil War in its military and strateg- ical details. In our papers since this great war began various experts have expounded daily the meaning of the news, but the writer who has done it most acceptably has been the author of these Evening Sun editorials, He has been able two or three times a week to give such an interpretation of the news columns as not only made very lively and agreeable reading, but produced in the reader’s mind’a grate- The Perfect Dress Re The tie with the butlon-on tabs The tie is anchored to the front collar button, the central and, Bing. enly proper place, thus positive- 4y centering the knot when tied.~ FO cents and better: Sold in the best shops Keys 8 Lockwood Mew York 7” Penrod *s back again! And he hasn’t changed a | - : — bit. Same old Penrod, only more so. ful impression that now he knew what was really going on. . It seems that the author of these The first of a new series excellent pieces, so well written out of of Penrod stories by so unusual an equipment, was the present editor of the Evening Sun, Mr. Booth Tarkington Frank H. Simonds. He has gathered an installment of them, along with other pieces, in a book, “The Great War” (Kennerley), which fetches sppeaieia Jentiany Compspelian, the story along down to the fall of Penrod and his chum, Sam, get hold of an old “revolaver” that belongs to Sam's father and— “Bing!” That's the name of the Antwerp. When anyone knows any- thing in a measure that is helpful to story. Of course the illustrations are by the inimitable his fellows, it is interesting to know Worth Brehm how he came by his knowledge. It seems that Mr. Simonds was born about thirty-six years ago in the ned village of Concord, Massachu- Here is irresistible joy for you. Tom Sawyer and “Huck” Finn rolled into one irrepressible bunch of mischief. setts, went to the Concord schools, and in due time to Harvard College, went in a Massachusetts regiment to the Spanish War, spent a year (1901) in University Settlement in New York, and has since been a newspaper man. He was a reporter for the Tribune and later its correspondent at Albany and Washington, then for three years Albany correspondent for the Evening Post, and since 1908 a member of the editorial staff of the Sun, where he Read “Bing!” in January Cosmo- politan and get your order.in now for the Penrod stories that will follow. We'll make it easy for you to read them. Just send the little coupon below with a gave his mind, as they came along, to = quarter, and we will enter your name to the Moroccan crisis and the Balkan Cosmopolitan receive Cosmopolitan for three months. This will Wai) Euidently. (eo che enows «our give you the big, bulging leader of magazines at a saving of 44%. Civil War, the. Franco-Prussian War and other renowned disturbances, and when Germany crossed the Belgi frontier he had in his head the nec sary grasp of military principles to th’ like a general staff and the literary skill to convey his thoughts acceptably. This war has been a sore disap- pointment to war correspondents, but at least it has produced one uncom- monly good war editor. Sy S' osmopolitan 119 West 40th St., New York City Ste 3! America’s Greatest Magazine comicbooks.com