Life — November 1, 1917 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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The Latest Books OME fourteen years ago a German writer named Wilhelm Jensen pub- lished a novelette called “Gravida, a Pompeiian Fancy "—the story of a young archaeologist whose aversion to feminine society and whose esthetic engrossment with a graceful figure in an old bas-relief gradually unsettled his mind ; but who is cured (and his mental aberrations ex- plained) by a romantic encounter with comple an old sweetheart. It is, on the surface, life, vig a fanciful tale; yet there is an uncanny mad quality to it—an elusive yet constantly recurring conviction that this, but for : Be the grace of God, might be the actual workings of our own dreams and self- deceptions. The Sw being 0 HIS novel in an English translation, way. together with a step-by-step psycho- than yo analysis of its hero’s “case” and a most organ t interesting scientifico-literary critiqué of mere 8 ° de ; tense, | its author's method, by Sigmund Freud, ince : has just appeared in a volume called I guara An Ancient Game “Delusion and Dream” (Moffat, Yard, specie, STRIP of painted canvas, when substituted, as it has sometimes heen, for a $2.00), and the book is commended to real parapet of stone, has been found not merely to impose on the enciny, but any readers who are interested, either on Wh to give a sort of artificial courage to the defenders concealed behind it. thelaide’Of etlence of'of Iitehature 10 the SI An excerpt from an article on the recently discovered art of camouflage? Not at new psychology. Nothing would seem Arey all! Merely a quotation from Prescott’s “Conquest of Mexico,” Book IV, Chapter 7. more certain than that the next twenty orale A footnote adds: “ More than one example of this ruse is mentioned by Mariana years will see laid the firm foundations energet in Spanish history, though the precise passages have escaped my memory.” of a new literary criticism; not super- Careful inquiry will probably show that the Chinese invented camouflage in the ficially based, as heretofore, on the more neighborhood of 9000 B. C. (Continued on page 72s) M Concealed Weapons ‘Dp?’ you hear?—the Crosbys were so generous as to give their sedan to the Red Cross. I wonder what was the matter with it.” “My dear, you do knit bee-utifully, but what is it?” “The Major looks so formidable in his uniform, doesn’t he? Too bad the poor man never wore it at home.” “Here comes Miss Veriplain in her red-white-and-blue hat. Who would have thought anything could become her so well!” “You will go from house to house canvassing for the Liberty Loan, Miss Stout? My dear, you have the right idea.” “You put down twenty quarts of beans? Splendid! Splendid! I do so hope they'll keep for you this time.” “The Red Cross is to be congratulated, my dear, in securing the services of a woman of your years and long experience.” Edmund J. Kiefer. Modern 1G HOREIE is so systematic.” “How now?” “T asked him in my last letter if he liked my eyes, and now he refers me to his communication of February 24. Says he treated the subject exhaustively in that communi- | HERE'S A DOLLAR, HALF THE AMOUNT OF cation.” THE CHECK—I'M CONSERVING MY OWN RESOURCES. Patron: YOU'RE CONSERVING FOOD, I JUDGE, BY THE SIZE OF OUR PORTIONS. comicbook Seem