Life, 1916-06-15 · page 40 of 48
Life — June 15, 1916 — page 40: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising for new novels** from the Macmillan Company, featuring four 1911-era literary releases by prominent authors like Alice Brown, May Sinclair, Mary S. Watts, and Jack London, with critical praise and prices ($1.35-$1.50). The right side contains a **stationery advertisement** for Hampshire Paper Co., using the appeal that quality writing paper signals gentlemanly status. At the bottom is a **single-panel cartoon** depicting a conversation between a visiting missionary and a ship's cook. The joke relies on Irish dialect humor (common in the era) where the cook misunderstands the missionary's inquiry about storms. When asked if they encountered storms "on the way down," the cook interprets this literally and shows damage to the ship's log as evidence—a pun on "log" (both the ship's record and literal wood). The humor stems from the cook's working-class misinterpretation of refined language.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
| i i| | | | | | / The Best Summer Reading Four New Novels. By Prominent Authors THE PRISONER A New Novel by Alice Brown, Author of “My Love and I,” “Children of Earth,” etc. “Alice Brown has forged ahead until now she stands with the best and greatest. She is very daring, she defies all prejudices, but she is simply delightful.”—The Chicago Post. “There is no American novelist doing better work these days than is Alice Brown.”—Pittsburg Post. $1.50 THE BELFRY May Sinclair’s New Novel, Author of “The Three Sisters,” “The Divine Fire,” etc. “A perfect, composite picture of real human beings amid the stress of present-day events and emotions. . . . A fascinatingly interesting story.” —Boston Transcript. ‘Vive unceasingly read- able.’—N. Y. Tribune. “A really successful novel.”--N. Y. Globe. $1.35 THE RUDDER Mary S. Watts’ New Novel, Author of “The Rise of Jennie Cushing,” “‘ Nathan Burke,” etc. ‘The Stationery You couldn’t expect to find it the personal stationery of any but the men you know as gentlemen 9% We have a sample packet we would like to mail to’you # Ask us for it HAMPSHIRE PAPER CO,, “South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts “As bright a book as can be imagined; the people are not merely lifelike, they are like pho- tographs of those we know. . . . It is a page of real American life that Mrs. Watts has torn off for us, a page that is thoroughly, entertaining and admirably written.".—N. Y. Sun. $1.50 THE LITTLE LADY of the BIG HOUSE Jack London’s New Novel “A novel of large significance and unquestion- able interest, exeniled: with the fine finish of an indisputable master. . . . He has written as only a real man can write of real men.” $1.50 Other New Macmillan novels on display in all Hotels and Bookstores THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers New York VISITING MISSIONARY TO SHIP'S COOK “DID YoU STRIKE MANY STORMS ON TITE WAY DOWN?” . “ FAITH AN’ WE DID, NOW, JIST YOU TAKE A PEEP AT THI’ Sittr’s L0G.’ “sey, MY! ALL SPLINTERED, 1 DARESAY.” comicbooks.com