Life, 1921-02-24 · page 31 of 32
Life — February 24, 1921 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **book reviews and advertisements**, not political cartoons. The left column features "Life's Choice"—reviews of contemporary books including works by Edith Wharton, E.M. Forster, and others, reflecting 1921 literary trends. Notable is the review of Daisy Ashford's children's book, with Irvin Cobb providing an introduction. The advertisements dominate: **Allen's Foot-Ease powder** (marketed to post-WWI audiences, referencing Army/Navy use during the war), **Bellans indigestion remedy**, **Dunhill Pipes**, **Cortez Cigars** (made in Key West), and **Niagara Wall Papers**. The **Malamor hotel advertisement** (top right) promotes an English Inn in Asheville, North Carolina, targeting wealthy travelers. No political satire or caricature appears on this page. It's a straightforward commercial publication mixing literary criticism with period-appropriate consumer goods, reflecting post-war American prosperity and leisure culture.
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LIFE’S Choice Current Books Worth While. Roaming Through the West Indies, by Harry A, Franck. Lo! the West Indian, and the diverting vagaries of his untutored mind. Potterism, by Rose Macaulay. : England's contribution towards satirizing the spirit of philistinism in modern society Possibly the best of the small mind move- ment The Letters of William James, edited by Henry James, his son. The human side of James the Thinker. An excellent opportunity for persons who enjoy reading other persons’ letters really to learn something. White Shadows in the South Seas, by Frederick O'Brien. The Golden Age rediscovered in the South 1 Sea Islands. Excellent winter reading by reason of the color and the warmth, The Owl Taxi, by Halbert Footner. Central American crim trigue in New York. not a headache in a barrel of it. The Age of Innocence, by Edith* Wharton New York society in the 70's and its moral code. An interesting study of repression. Married Life, by May Edginton. The faithful (Small, Maynard & Co.) Sure Relief 6 BELLANS Hot water Sure Relief NS FOR INDIGESTION EUROPE 1921 Parties enr now. Moderate prices. Most interesting routes. Great success 1920. TEMPLE TOURS °*1.nronthinstTe** YOR 7 'WEN gj OF BRAINS IGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST— Shake Into Your Shoes The Powder for the Feet This Antiseptic, Healing powder takes the friction from the shoe, freshens the feet and gives new vigor. At night, when your fect are tired, sore and swollen from walking or dancing, sprinkle ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE in the foot-bath And enjoy the bliss of feet without an ache. Se Easy to Use Over One Million Five Hundred Thousand pounds of Powder for the Feet were used by our Army and Navy during the war. Ask for ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE to-day. realism and unsentimental simplicity of this story is brought to a shopworn and wholly increditable “happy” ending. The best thing is the first-rate dialogue— and the book is nearly all conversation. All and Sundry, by E. T. Raymond. (Henry Holt & Co.) Like the author's Uncensored Celebrities, a series of pen portraits. Worth while for the sake of a few very penetrating insights—Presi- dent Wilson (from a foreign standpoint), G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling (par- ticularly) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Life of Leonard Wood, by John G. Holme. (Doubleday, Page & Co.) Warm- ly favorable without becoming insuffer- ably adulatory. Daisy Ashford: Her Book, by Daisy Ashford. «(George H. Doran Company.) Here are the remaining novels by the nine-year old. If there had been no Young Visiters, the world would certainly devour the new book with an equal avidi- ty. Irvin Cobb writes an introduction, The Ivory Disc, by Percy James Breb- (Duffield & Co.) Mystery yarn in which such ingredients as a villain named Bocara, a ring containing snake-poison, a dog, Hindu mysticism and a love story are skilfully put together by a veteran at this sort of thing. Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E. M. Forster. (Alfred A. Knopf.) An early novel which will be new to most Ameri- cans, An English widow of “family” weds an Italian peasant, who uses her, on the whole, very well, according to his lights. But when she dies, he won't sur- render the son. An interesting story and a sound study with no exaggeration or burlesque about it. The Life of Joseph Hodges Choate ner, NIAGA WALL PAPERS ene Albemarle Park Asheville, N.C. ‘This charming English Inn holds a warm piace in the ‘of cultivated people re. heart Southern hos every Heality. Rometiite tatormality, con: centrated comfort, Open All Year. Perfect Goll i Write for Bo Sn America-- An English Inn ee Duwi Pipes Circul R P ALL DUNHILL PIFES BEAR THE ROUND WILITE SPOT AND ARE STAMPED NHIg LONDON M.M. Importing Co. 6 East 45th St. N.Y. SOLE AGENTS IN THE U. S. a Periect Climate (Scribner), by Edward Sandford Mar- tin, is subtitled “as gathered chiefly from his letters, including his own story of his boyhood and youth.” Mr, Martin, in these two volumes, has accomplished a very ex- traordinary task of editing and a striking- ly effective presentation of his subject. Only where other sources ran dry has he allowed himself to speak. He has staged a great personality as a Belasco stages a play. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson. (Charles Scribner's Sons.) A gentleman-crook story lifted from the ruck by Mr. Nicholson's deft, light touch in handling a flimsy, fictional fabric. In Sweet Rocket (Harper), the waves of mystic transcendentalism have closed completely over the head of that once- excellent novelist, Mary Johnston. Must she share the fate of Herman Melville? If only she would give us a story, we could bear the metaphysical quisitions of her characters. with dis- comicbooks.com