Life — July 25, 1918 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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into and thick 1 y and we it I:vans Jy iSc, q The Diary of a Nation War Editorials from LIF By EDWARD S. MARTIN What the Reviewers say about it: “rom the Boston Transcript: An American product is Lire, just as Punch is a fruit of Great Britain’s national existence. It has assumed a semi-political rank during the last three years through its Yankee freedom of critical, sometimes caustic, speech when reflecting upon our part, or former | of part in the war. Mr. Martin has come near to being the James Russell Lowell of the day, in his frequent comments on the conflict in its many kaleidoscopic variations, comments that have stood pat with the sensations and sympathies of thousands of staunch Americans. He has been the able mouthpiece of a multitude. One of the best of the selections in “ The Diary of a Nation” is that on England's bulldog grip, “ Hold On, John Bull!” a three page compressed statement of all the best instincts of our kinship with Great Britain. From the New York Evening Post: A sort of literary motion-picture—a progressive por- of the development of American sentiment in re- sponse to the development of the conflict. From the Philadelphia Inquirer: This is one of the few war books to be kept for all time. From the London Spectator: These articles from New York Lire stand for a type of editorial comment for which there is no parallel in British journalism—aunconventional, colloquial, but trenchant and often intensely serious, though appearing in what is nomi- nally a comic paper. There is hardly a page that does not invite quotation. From the Boston Herald: Neither ps t nor jingo, Mr. Martin has sanely summed up the war from week to week. Those who do not agree with him in this or that pronouncement will at least grant that he does not “ slop over.” His leaders on developments of the war from the first German rush into Belgium to the time of this country’s entry as a belligerent are pointed expression of representative American opinion. From the Grand Rapids Pre It does not matter so much that Mr. Martin is an editor of the widely-known humorous weekly called LiF! matters a great deal that he is the sanest, | and frankest of the country’s editorial writers. qualities, tempered with a kindly, whimsical humor and a fine s of proportion, have made “ The Diary of a Nation” something that we like to regard as typically American. It is really the story of the great war and how we got into it as shown by extracts from the editorial page of Lire during the last three years. It is a worth- while book. : Published by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, $1.50. Life Prints Copr. Life Pub. Co. Life Pub, Co. After the Battle Printed in colors on fine Bristol and plate-marked. Size 12x16 inches Price 25 cents plate-marked The Boy Who Became a Lawyer Printed in colors on fine Bristol and ize 12x16 inches Copr. Life Pub, Co. ‘1 Wonder if They’re True to Me"? Photogravure, 13/4x16 inches 50 cents Price 25 cents Shipped prepaid to any address on receipt of remittance LIFE PUBLISHING CO., 17 WEST 3lst St., New York PETEM J. CAREY, PRINTER