Life, 1917-05-24 · page 7 of 7
Life — May 24, 1917 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and literary reviews**, not political satire. The top left features a Canadian Pacific Railway ad promoting Banff and Lake Louise as tourist destinations. Below that are book reviews discussing William H. Davies's poetry collection and Edward Lefcvre's novel "To the Last Penny." The main content is a full-page advertisement for **"Love Maggy,"** a new novel by Countess Barcynska (author of "The Honey Pot"), appearing in Ainslee's magazine for June, priced at 15 cents. The ad emphasizes the protagonist's charm and her ability to overcome her past. The small cartoon labeled **"Things That Almost Happens"** (top right) shows a couple nearly engaging in an illicit affair in what appears to be a hotel room, presenting a humorous near-miss scenario—typical satirical content for the era regarding social propriety and romance.
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ol ba nen In the Canadian Pacific Rockies Under the rugged grandeur of snow-clad peaks, Has the air that adds yearsto your Banff Lake Louise FIELD ~CLACIER —SICAMOUS hing. Coaching, Fishing, Ridiag, Walking immiog in Warm Selpher The ‘Banff Springs Hotel Magnificent as a Feudal Castle and Chateau Lake Louise ‘Where cach window frames a lar picture,” offer gay social life or relaxation, * Canadian Pacific oe” There are wonderful lines and passages of intoxicatingly piled-up splendor of imaginative suggestion in the pages of his “Collected Poems” (Doubleday, Page, $2.00). But one has to wade to find them, and when found they are more likely to prove a refuge from contem porary life than interpretings of it Which is all right. But why drag in our grandchildren? ILLIAM H. DAVIES, whose collect- ed poems were published last fall, is another futurity favorite. But besides being a writer of naively sophisticated little lyrics, ke is himself an authentic bird of passage, “black sheep,” habitual hobo and born Ishmaelite. And he has just published a matter-of-fact account of his adventures, called (but assuredly not by himself) The Autobio; of a Super-Tramp” (Knopf, $2.50), which Bernard Shaw “introduces” with char- acteristic showmanship. The narrative is unexciting, but interesting because of its unaffected and, indeed, unself-con- scious portrayal of its individualistic author's attitude toward an alien, gener- ally troublesome, yet occasionally con: venient, social system. ‘O THE LAST PENNY” (Harper's, $1.35), by Edward Lefevre, is the story of an innovative and altruistic manufacturer of automobiles (one is constantly testing him out in one’s mind for Henry-Ford-ishness) and of a young college man whom he sets out to train in practical business idealism. Like most of this author's novels, it begins in a vein of crisp and clean-cut and expectancy- rousing realism; but even more than most of them. it leaks energy as it de- velops, and ends in artificiality and in- effectiveness. J.B. Kerfoot. HERE was Moses when the light went out? A recently discovered slab shows in cunciform characters that Moses had sallied forth with an insufficiently sup- plicd lantern to instruct the local news- dealer to save a copy of Lire. for him every week, THINGS THAT ALMOST HAPPEN “Love Maggy Anew novel by the Countess Barcynska, author of “The Honey Pot.” No one who knows her can help but “Jove Maggy,” with her quick sympa- thies, her ceaay's wit and her irresistible charm. You'll forgive her her “past” because it has made her present. You can meet Maggy in Ainslee’s for June On sale May 15th 15 cents the copy i ee comicbooks.com