Life, 1917-12-06 · page 82 of 92
Life — December 6, 1917 — page 82: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a **book advertisement page** from *Life* magazine, not a political cartoon. It promotes Christmas gift books published by The Century Company, located at 353 Fourth Avenue, New York City. The illustrated header shows a crowd of well-dressed people in winter clothing, establishing a festive shopping atmosphere. The page advises buying books early because "all transportation is overworked and necessarily slow"—a reference to wartime supply-chain constraints (likely WWI era, given mentions of war books like "The Note-Book of an Intelligence Officer"). The advertisements highlight diverse titles: travel narratives (*American Adventures* in the South), novels by popular authors (*Ladies Must Live*, *Mrs. Hope's Husband*), military memoirs, art books, and war-related works. Several titles explicitly reference the South and race (*"you-all" to the negro*), reflecting early 20th-century attitudes. **No satire is present here**—it's straightforward commercial advertising presenting books as sophisticated Christmas gifts for genteel readers.
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They are a gracious compli- ment to the good taste of the receiver. And buy early, for all transportation is overworked and necessarily slow. AMERICAN ADVENTURE 4 JULIAN STREET Author of “Abroad at Home” VENTS and observations in a ramble through the South, the most picturesque part of the United States, by Julian Street, author, and Wallace Morgan, artist, who were responsible for “Abroad at Home.” They visited numerous Southern towns and cities and had a lot of fun doing it; and Mr. Street discusses (while Mr. Morgan pictures) everything from Richmond belles to Mississippi floods, from plantation songs to the wasters at Palm Beach, from “you-all” to the negro. South, and saw it appreciatively. CALVARY ALLEY By Alice Hegan Rice Another gift of laughter and tears from the author of “Mrs, Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch "the story of Nance Molloy. Mlastrated. $1.35, LADIES MUST LIVE By Alice Duer Miller A new and brilliant novel of New York smart society, by the author of “Come Out of the Kitchen,’ Mlastrated. $1.25, The SECOND FIDDLE By Phyllis Bottome A thing of joy in the fiction world—a new povel from the author of “The Darie ower. Nlastrated, $1.35. MRS. HOPE’S HUSBAND By Gelett Burgess One of the brightest, gayest, most surpris- ing and most satisfactory stories of the year. It is soon to appear on the New York stage. Mestrated, $1.00, A COUNTRY CHILD By Grant Showerman A qualot, delightful. story that mak old thome’life on a Middle Western tavm oe vivid as reality, Beaatifally Mastrated, $1.75, Full of the joy of life. DOWN VAGABONDING "Ai’ ANDES By Harry A. Franck A fascinating narrative of several years’ tramping through South America, by the author of “A Vagabond Journey Around the World.” A book of adventure and color and incident, as entertaining as the “ Arabian Nights.” 176 Ilastrations from photographs, $4.00, THE NOTE-BOOK OF AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER By Major Eric Fisher Wood An authoritative inside account of soldiering on the West- ern front; a unique war source-book by the author of the famous “ Note-Book of an Attaché.” Mlastrated. $1.75, SECRETS OF POLAR TRAVEL By Rear-Admiral Robert E. Peary A romance of American achievement, revealing the in ous methods by which Peary achieved the discovery of t North Pole. -A fact-story of inspiring appeal and a narra- tive of thrilling interest as well. | Mastrated. $2.50, RODIN: THE MAN AND HIS ART By Judith Cladel A magnificent gift book and an art book of unique interest, revealing, largely in his own words, the greatest sculptor of modern times; with a critical and biographical study and 50 illustrations, Quarto, boxed, $5.00. They saw the significant 64 Illustrations. $3.50. LIFE, ART AND LETTERS of GEORGE INNESS By George Inness, Jr. The authoritative biography of the greatest American landscape painter. Critical intros duction by Elliott Daingerfeld. Mastrated, $4.00. MRS. FISKE By Alexander Woollcott Wherein this well-known dramatic critic ree cords the views on, plays, players and play- ing of the most brilliant woman on the American stage. Mastrated. $2.00. KULTUR IN CARTOONS ByLouis Raemackers Over t00 pictures in two colors by the st- preme genius so far produced by the war. Critical comments by celebrated writers. Quarto, boxed, $5.00. THE REBUILDING OF EUROPE By David Jayne Hill scholarly presentation of past political is and a brilliant forecast of ndencies to follow the war. A great general interest by this emine CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN THE QUARTERS By Irwin Russell m1 ink drawings by E. W, The New Illustrated Holiday Catalogue of CENTURY Books Will Be Sent on Request 353 Fourth Avenue New York City At All Book Stores Published by THE CENTURY CO. comicboo!