Life, 1915-05-27 · page 42 of 44
Life — May 27, 1915 — page 42: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews**, not political satire. The main content includes: 1. **Hotel Biltmore advertisement** (top left) - promoting New York's premier business hotel 2. **"Safety First" cartoon** (center-left) - depicts a man fleeing automobiles, seeking refuge in a bar for Old Saratoga whiskey. The joke references the early 1900s "Safety First" movement, a genuine public concern about automobile dangers. The irony: he escapes traffic danger only to consume alcohol, which poses its own risks. This reflects contemporary anxieties about new technology. 3. **Book reviews and advertisements** - promoting spring publications including novels by James Lane Allen and George Agnew Chamberlain, plus a book on French military preparedness titled "France in Danger." 4. **Magic shop advertisement** (right side) - promoting card tricks and magic instruction booklets The page reflects early-20th-century concerns: automobile safety, literature, and (subtly) European military tensions.
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“BILTMORE. NEW YORK HE CENTER OF BUSINESS AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE METROPOLIS 1000 OUTSIDE ROOMS JONN MSE. BOWMAN, PRESIOENT Books Received Dome Imagist Poets, (Houghton Mif- flin Co. 75 cents.) Japanese Lyrics, by Lafcadio Hearn. (Houghton Mifflin Co. 75 cents.) The White Alley, by Carolyn Wells. (J. B. Lippincott Co., Phila., Pa. $1.23.) Miranda, by Grace L. H. Lutz, (J. B. Lippincott Co., Phila. Pa. $1.25.) An American Fruit Farm, by Francis Newton Thorpe. (G. P, Putnam's Sons $2.50.) John Shaw Billings, a Memoir, by Safety First! Gee—and V came up here “U-reremph! to avoid being run down by autos ! But the fortunate gentleman, obeying first instincts, has discovered his Old Saratoga is sate. So there’s not so much cause for alarm after all. When you want (05 arALO gg ie EXTRA FINE ask for WHISKEY and then make sure you get it. If your dealer hasn’t OW Saratoga in stock, send us six dollars and we will see that you get at four | fall quarts, all charges paid. Rosskam, Gerstley & Co., Philadelphia Fielding H. Garrison, M.D. (G. P. Put- nam's Sons. $2.50.) The Jester, by Leslie Moore. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.35.) Poems of Emile Verhaeren, translated by Alma Strettell. (John Lane Co, $1.) Panama, by Stephen Phillips. (John Lane Co. $1.25.) The House of the Misty Star, by Frances Little. (The Century Co. $1.25.) Arms and the Race, by R. M. John- ston. (Century Co, $1.00.) Plays for School Children, by Anna M. Litkenhaus. (Century Co. $1.25.) FRANCE IN DANGER Or Yreneh Natovailiy Mensed by Mue-German Aggresilon. By PAUL VERGNET Translated by DEATRICE BARSTOW An important exposure of the methods and Of the notor ug Pin-Cerman League which practically the Futopean env $1.00 met Ald Fesokstores E. P. DUTTON & CO, 681 Fifth Avenue, N.Y. LL Wala We will, send you two card tricks, very perptezing to onlookers, yet savers, can do them. Also. booklets showing over 100 ] 0) different Magic Tricks and Jokes. Allfor UC. THE MAGIC SHOP, 44 North 13th Street, Phila, Pa. Two Outstanding Titles of the Spring Siaoa A novel of America THE OF YOUTH JAMES" LANE ALLEN From The Outlook: ‘In ‘The Sword of Youth’ Mr. Allen goes back to the blue grass region which he celebrated with such intimate and tender skill in those early stories that have taken their places among American classics, and becomes again the prose idylist of ‘The Kentucky Cardinal’ and ‘Aftermath.’. . . “The beautiful early work of Mr. Allen’s with which ‘The Sword of Youth’ relates itself has become part of American literature. . . . A lightly sketched idyllic love story lights the loneliness of the diverging paths of mother and son with a common devotion. . . . “The shadow of the Civil War rests on this story. ... The background is part of the story, as in the earlier tales from the same hand; it not only envelops the actors in a mellow atmosphere, but it explains and inter- prets them, for Mr. Allen has thought deeply about the shaping influences of both heredity and environment, and inhis most characteristic stories nature is present in obvious and deli- cately sketched landscape and in subtle reflec- tion in temperament and character. . . . ‘The Sword of Youth’ is likely to be overlooked by seekers after the melodramatic, the over- strained and the undertoned novel; but it will select its readers and offer them something rare and fine.”’ Twenty-one full-pa. Price $1.25 net, pos | A novel of Everywhere fTHRoucH] THROUGH SGLAss | STAINED GEORGE "AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN From The Dial: “The anonymity of so remarkable a novel as ‘Home,’ published about a year ago, could not long be preserved. It soon transpired that the author was Mr. George Agnew Chamberlain, the occupant of aconsular post in South America. This accounted for the exotic graft upon the homely New England stock which made the work of such enticing interest. Mr. Chamber- lain’s success has encouraged him to further production, in consequence whereof we now have ‘Through Stained Glass,’ a novel which fairly matches ‘Home’ in charm and depth of human revelation, Here, also, we skip some- what breathlessly about the globe, from Virginia to South America, thence to London and Paris, and finally to New England. . . . “‘For years the father and the son live in beautiful and devoted companionship, the for- mer supplying the worldly wisdom of his sophis- ticated intellect—illuminating life for the boy as ‘through stained glass’—the son re; rf this sol de with affection, and preserving his own purity of soul while re: ing his artistic self... 6 “The love story is very tenderly and delicately managed; it leaves far more to the imagin than it expresses, which is the way of all true art. . .« It tingles with vitality and glows with beauty on well-nigh every page.'’ Price $1.30 net, postage 10 cents THE CENTURY CO. 353 Fourth Avenue (at 26th Street) New York City the mat as iti pre \ vace typll com that viou we | less will and ring seru