Life, 1916-08-10 · page 33 of 38
Life — August 10, 1916 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book promotion**, not political satire. The main content advertises Harold Bell Wright's novels, particularly "When a Man's a Man" (first printing of 1.5 million copies). The left side contains a sketch titled "A Short Circuit"—appears to be an illustration of someone at a desk or window, but its meaning isn't clear from the image alone. Below that is an advertisement for **Whiting-Adams brushes**, using typical early 20th-century advertising copy ("Disgusted with the Brush you are using?"). The right side includes a literary review discussing Welsh author **Caradoc Evans** and his book "My People," comparing him to modern writers while noting his use of traditional Welsh imagery and dialect. The page reflects 1910s-era publishing and consumer advertising rather than political commentary or satire. No identifiable caricatures or political figures are present.
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First Printing, %4 Million—Just Published v s WHEN A MAN’S A MAN Illustrated by the Author Cloth 12mo $1.35 WHEN A MAN'S A MAN is a fine, big, wholesome novel of simple sweetness and virile stren3th. While the pages are crowded with the thrilling incidents that belong to the adventurous life of the unfenced land depicted, one feels, always, beneath the surface of the stirring, scenes the great, primitive and enduring life forces that the men and women of this story portray. In the Dean, Philip Acton, Patches, Little Billy, Curly Elson, Kitty Reid and Helen Manning the author has created real livin, breathin3, men and women, and we are made to feel and under stand that there come to everyone those times when in spite of all, above all and at any cost, a man must be a man. Popular Edition. One Million Copies The Eyes of the World—Also Just Published Under leased rights by A. L. Burt Co, New York Illustrated Cloth 12mo 50 cents Over 34 Million Copies Have Been Sold at $1.35 Clune Film Producing, Co. will have ready August 15th, Premier Production of “The Eyes of the World,” visualizing the story in a Cinema-Theatrical Entertainment. Other Novels by the Same Author That Printer of Udell's—The Shepherd of the Hills—The Calling, of Dan Matthews —The Winning, of Barbara Worth—Their Yesterdays Nearly Seven Million Copies of Harold Bell Wright's books have been sold The great heart of the reading public is an unprejudiced critic THE BOOK SUPPLY COMPANY, Publishers + E, W. REYNOLDS, President 231-233 West Monroe Street, CHICAGO + national guard on the Texas border; RELAND and Scotland have both been with the needs of the army, and of the well represented in the self-explana- country through the army, in constant tory symposium of contemporary fiction, debate; with the propaganda of the Here, for those who are willing to take pacifists daily becoming a more evident a little trouble to get into touch with a counsel of perfection offered to sheep in most interesting stranger, is a voice from wolves’ clutches; there must be many Wales; Caradoc Evans, the author of who will be glad to know of the exist- ence of this excellent and explanatory volume. the tabloid tales of Welsh peasant life called “My People” (Melrose, London, 5 shillings), is a writer more than worth this required effort, He is, one might at first imagine, a modern of the moderns— a sort of Welsh Gertrude S Yet he WHITING-ADAMS: ff, ttn won tee eo st copated imagery as old as the Welsh ¢ y hills, an imagery that imprisons in its . ) verbal meshes the very spirit of an . ancient people. Disgusted with the Brush you are using? bie ‘Some brushes have no excuse for being on earth. ' 4..B. Kerfoot, Have youone of thiskind? + . — Try a WHITING-ADAMS BRUSH e Do you know what WHITING-ADAMS means? P ; Rempuns sotiefaction in brushes, eved work, long wear, best 1% NE of Robinson Crusoc’s greatest deprivations was his failure to get WHITING -3. 3. ADAMS Boston, U.S.A. ee ie eee aves: " Lire regularly. He had neglected to Waitleg-Adame warded Gold Medal and Oficial Bie Kiliwo, ‘ ; i with his news- file Lighest award at Paaame-Pacibe Expoaluca, 1910 dette a standing order with his news ea a na eater, A SHORT CIRCUIT comicbooks.com