Life — November 6, 1919 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: AFTER THANKSGIVING BILL’S FATHER WON TWO TURKEYS AT THE RAFFLE The Mood and the Book NE of the reasons why the unsophisticated reader doesn’t always get on with some of the books that are now being published is that he doesn’t know how to get himself in the right mood beforehand. This is essential to the highest intellectual enjoyment. To get the true flavor of Arnold Bennett's “Pretty Lady,” one should dress himself up a week or so beforehand in the garb of a Benedictine monk and live on bread and milk —if he can afford it. Mary Roberts Rinehart’s skillful “Dangerous Days’ should not be approached without a previous skimming of all the recent British authors in order to appreciate the remarkable efficiency with which the charming author | assimilated the “damns”’ and and “bounder of their advanced vocabularies. To read Booth Tarkington, hire any seventeen-year-old American boy to live with you, and Theodore Dreiser should not be absorbed without a previous residence in Hoboken or Jersey City. It would be superfluous to read FORCE OF THE AUTOMOBILE HABIT Mr. Maugham’: ioon and Six; ence” unless you have one or two wives, so before taking it on get married at once, if you have not already done so. Read almost any standard theological work before you begin the later books of H. G. Well for to appreciate them at their fullest requires a complete ignorance of the Deity. have recently become so accustomed to accu lating horrors that the abounding merits of Hugh Walpole’s “Secret City” cannot be entered into unless you have undergone a proper incar- ceration in a New York boarding house. A steady diet of hot tamales and Spanish ome: lettes is a fit preparation for Joseph Conrz “Arrow of Gold”; and before indulging in Mr De Morgan's “Madhouse,” one should go over the previous provisions of the League of Nations. T. L. M. Wm's Ersatz Facts COUPLE of weeks before election Governor Smith of New York lit into William Hearst of that state with a prepared statement s forth, among other things, that William erately misrepresented facts in his newspapers The Governor specified facts that had been so misrepresented to prejudice voters, some e cially about the city milk supply and the Gover- nor’s relation to it. The natural sympathy of the well disposed for Governor Smith is colored a little with mirth at his making, even before election, a revelation where- on the whiskers are so long. For. a good many years, probably ever since he began to own newspa- pers, Mr. Hearst he ased to be said in his papers what i med to him necessary y in support of pur- ses he wished to advance. This has happened par- ticularly and habitually be- fore election. When the voters are tobe = reached and ~ facts fail, William adopts the war expe- dients of the Germans and uses ersatz facts, flavored to & the taste of the o for whom he pr them. It is doubtful if there is anyv producer and vendor of ersatzfactst . He is a king in that business, and Gove Smith must have known it for so many } that to have him put it in a formal s makes one smile. BURBANK’S LATEST—THE BOARDING-HOUSE TURKEY comicbooks.comm