Life, 1921-11-10 · page 31 of 34
Life — November 10, 1921 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page is predominantly a **book review section** paired with a **commercial advertisement** for Ward's Paradise Fruit Cake—not political satire. The review section discusses contemporary fiction titles (works by Michael Sadleir, May Sinclair, George Barr McCutcheon, and others), offering critical commentary typical of Life magazine's literary coverage. The main visual content is a large **product advertisement** featuring an ornate cake box. The ad emphasizes that Ward's fruit cake contains "choicest gifts of bountiful nature from every land"—imported cherries, Hawaiian pineapples, raisins, butter, eggs, and flour. It's positioned as an ideal Thanksgiving/Christmas gift. The boast "Over 100,000 Sold Last Year / They Must Be Good!" suggests the cake's market success. There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page. It's a straightforward early 20th-century Life magazine mixing book reviews with national brand advertising—common editorial practice of the era.
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Se — ° a STHELATESTBOSRC) ) Good Things Come Again! w me se ; Grace Your Thanksgiving and Christmas Feasts with best RUSE Fiction » WARD’S PARADISE Privilege, by Michael Sadleir (G. P. Putnam’s Sons). The story of the decay of an English family written in the ex- treme modern sophisticated manner, tinged with real genius. Terribly good. The Cake of the Gods Mr. Waddington of Heat by May Sin- lair (The Macmillan A book of s —o ll zit BG 5 " 7 cat ee ee ee worth while stick | Nothing so epitomizes the spirit of Thanksgiving as Ward’s Paradise Fruit se Sail in a. world Whers May, Sinclate ; Cake. Here are all the choicest gifts of bountiful nature from every land and ai dng books alien she writes such a clime—cherries imported from France, Hawaiian pineapples, luscious raisins, good one as this. i nuts of every kind, the highest grade butter, eggs, milk, sugar and flour— Quill’s Window, by George Barr Me- all perfectly blended to produce the most delicious cake you ever tasted. Cutcheon (Dodd, Mead & Co.). Mr. Me- t Put up like high grade confectionery, wrapped in glassine paper, and packed in a Cutcheon is still writing in the old conven- j beautifully decorated metal box lined ‘with lace paper and doily. Keeps indefinitely. tional manner. His characters (not all of Enjoy this delectable cake at your, Thanksgiving dinner, Send one to your friends them) are too shopworn. In spite of the Ghileaies gifp tor mien and’ women, won’t be home for the holiday. An ideal deadwood, however, his first-rate talent as eee ee ; % im i i Net weight 5 Ibs. Measures more than 10 inches in diameter. Price east of the a story teller has aided him in producing Mississippi River $5.00. Elsewhere in the United States and Canada $1.00 an interesting book. additional. “At your dealer's or sent, pateel post or express prepaid, on receipt of rhe \ check or post-office money-order. Send your orders to our New York office or, pi pe Obstacle Race, by Ethel M- Dell (G- more convenient, to our nearest bakery. eur eee we like this book more than we probably Over 100,000 Sold Last Year b : » should like it. The author knows what They Must Be Good! she is about—she carries one on. Mighty ~~ pleasant reading. ( sees, ae pa My Three Husbands, Anonymous (Bren- mmecst thelr. ) n . trial of ‘ake as a pre employees. We The anonymous author of this d ¢ predict it ake a hit and prove a gift success. essfully tried by . many institutions last Christmas. nial nut sundae says on page 194 speaking of husband number three): s “But I must say that George did improve _ 7 5 Address Dept. “D” wonderfully under my treatment.” We ae wish we could say the same. . WARD BAKING Ursula Trent, by W. L. George (Harper & Brothers). The fact that the author is : ; COMPANY trying almost too hard to make you believe * ‘ he can think and act like a woman con- ’ pec #3 New Y Y. Curcaco, Inn. stantly obtrudes itself. The book is so 3 + Pitrspurcit, Pa. clever that it is unconvincing, and disap- 3 sary ? J : & Qato pointing because the reader never has a s Cotumsus, On10 chance to be lost in the story or to forget pee x that George did it. The Willing Horse, by Ian Hay (Hough- ton Mifflin Co.). A pleasant story of the girl-who-has-gone - through - the-war_type, very clean, with nice touches of Scotch humor, love and all that sort of thing. Success, by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Houghton Mittin Co.). We started out wo einemnceennnaiioed to read this book with great hopes, and " wound up with @ feeling of dll ‘rage. You Don’t Have to Like Average Novels erhaps it is a good book. It reads as ii i the author had been assigned to write a 2 to Enjoy These Two Great Books tale for the movies and had “written it up” x first as a newspaper yarn in the form of a novel. You can hear the machinery creak when the characters move about, a 9st : PRIDE PALOMAR <Indivius Hedulio, by Edward Lucas White (E. P. Dutton & Co.). A romance Iain 8 of ancient Rome. If you like historical A, 4 A story so“alive” you'll want to novels, and a d Rome, ’ en a novels an want a good one about Rome, ‘ cheer for the people in it A new North Others Woods novel that’s Mr. Punch’s History of Modern Eng- A. glorious Western thor or snared being hailed as a mas- land, Vols. I and II, by Charles L. Graves romance in which a of the Dust ter writer’s masterpiece : (Frederick A. Stokes Co.). A mine of great American author information jiealing with: the Victorian as Bott fighting for and he Period, a throu; i hi rar writing abou! he peo- Punch, “After perusing ‘with grest effort | || ple he has known FLAMING FOREST several English histories dealing with this all his life. The latest and greatest story by period, we declare without any hesitation Price JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD that these volumes give us a much more . rae? J" - o? accurate idea of the spirit and temper of $2. Auruor oF “THE VaLtey or SILENT MEN”, ETC. the English people than anything we have Mystery, thrilling romance and grandeur—these yet seen, Pretty much everything English are yours for the trip when you adventure into the that you want to know—or don’t want to wilderness with James Oliver Curwood. know—is in them. Tired Radicals, by Walter Weyl (B. W. Wherever Books are Sold—$2. Huebsch). A book of b f th S Is - q brightest lights of the N ew Republic, whose (osmopolitan Book @iporation untimely death is mourned by a host of admirers, comicbooks.com