Life — October 12, 1916 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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The Latest Books AROLD BELL WRIGHT and George Moore have each published a new novel. Bluestockingly speaking, should come first. But i country where majorities ? Seay f he . rule, and where “nearly seven million” , + i TI CHelping Hand should _ wear the glove with a mis- copies of Mr. Wright's novels have been tt aes 19 v sold, he is surely entitled to precedence. aN. a || sion, HANSEN. “When a Man's a Man” (The Book eae ANA ‘The mission of Hansen builders Supply Company, $1.35) is a story of d : \ is to unite all the practical uses of the cattle country—of a nameless strang- a glove with elegance and perfect er, very low in his mind and conscious ¥¢ grooming. of his own unworthiness, who turns up Ni Be They are designed with the style- ata ranch, gets a job, knocks out the %, MY, inspiration which has made them local fist-champion, rides _man-killing mAs), leaders for thirty years. Hansen bronchos, catches cattle thieves, ar- ay fees > i barr geet pear tee ger ranges love affairs and then, having W/L al WA Care the lates auto iced “made good” and regained his self- -% 7 esteem, passes on, presumably to make 5 ms a new start in life. Who was he? Why “tyes A Hd did he do it? Ah! That is one of the { ; mysteries of the tale. But it is the lesser / . : ¥ mystery, so one can reveal it without | Ti : injust The man, it seems, had been ki x \ GLOVES a millionaire! The real mystery is how Feds 3 ' ih Mr. Wright can knead such dough with a straight face, and why seven million people, starving amid plenty, eat it. ORGE MOORE'S “The Brook : Kerith” (Macmillan, $1.50) is easily | ‘ i \ Free the most many-sidedly challenging piece = 2 NN ‘ book shows of literature published in English in the ‘ Sw S many of the 500 present century. Its subject is the life Se : : J - styles. If your of Christ. Its conception of the facts— dealer is not sup- its pivotal assumption being that Jesus z . : plied, write us. Anway, =: 5 send for the book. survived the crucifixion, and its inter- z pretative denouement being reached s 0. C. Hansen Manufacturing i throuzh a supposed meeting between MEE, FDeat tet him and Paul twenty years later—is ine | herently sensational. But its presenta- Fur Lined tion of these assumed facts is a master- “Wristlet” Cleve u ! ' Styl 706—For extra warneh, piece of technique in which their Suheun goumtena” Bucket stridulant sensationalism is muted by a eed Cheese: perfect naturalism of approach and by an exquisite monotony of linguistic sin . pleness. And just as no single reading Moderate mode of life and careful of the book can exhaust for an individual 7 reader its possibil as a well of won. conduct of business lead on to fortune. derful English, as an intricate and subtly dealt-with work of art, as a fictional Sturdy health and robust bank evocation of the past, and as a study of . . h t id of the p hology of accounts keep step with moderation. theological dialectics, 30. nothing but time, and plenty of it, can settle the We count the moderate man our book's real place in contemporary letters best customer for a wonderfully mild se giitepcode (nimareavonacanaerio Whi —Wilson—. words to a discussion of “ The Brook and mellow iskey —Wilson—Real Kerith” one leaves something like fifty Wilson—That’s All! interesting aspects. of the work un touched; one of which is the consistent skill with which it offers to its readers not argument or demonstration, but 2 molds The Whisker for which we invented the Non-Refillable Bottle connected series of conceptual into which they must pour their own understanding of life. If one has a pint FREE CLUB RECIPES—Free booklet of fi Jub fe of jelly on the stove, a dozen quart jars Add ot booklet of famcxs slob cps ioe are mere clutter. Here, however, is 2 meals pees ISLESSTSI AREY: Tee A | charming little jelly-mold. It is by Eth! Hueston, who wrote “Prudence of th Parsonage,” and is called “ Prudenc