Life — November 27, 1924 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Manison AVENUE .' lat '47;dn Street |’ I, New York AN. THE PRICE ! “Skippy — Volume One ERCY L. CROSBY'S “Skippy" has become a figure of national importance. His appear- ance in book form is a historical event, and will be hailed joyously by all those who have been privileged to meet him in the pages of Lire. “Skippy” is enormously popular, not primarily because he is funny—but because he is real. He Tepresents a composite portrait of all American boys—from Tom Sawyer to Penrod. His be- havior is recognized and understood by every one who has a Skippy of his own. The “Skippy” book contains over one hundred and fifty separate drawings by Mr. Crosby, all of them highly observant, absolutely truthful and uproariously funny. It forms a Christmas present of vast value; one that will be equally acceptable to all members of the family. Order the Skippy Book now from your bookseller or from LIFE— 598 Madison Avenue, New York City. IS ONLY $2.00 Life and Letters (Continued from page 20) T acree with John Galsworthy that the long short story is the best of all forms of fiction, and four excellent experiments in that genre—(oh, yes, but what other word could | have used when pressed for time?)—have just been submitted by Sidney Howard under the general and very disturbing title of “Three Flights Up” (Scribner) When we climb three flights of actual stairs, we usually expect to find something pretty good at the top of them. We find it in these figurative ones of Mr. Howard's. It is impossible to mention all four of the stories, so “A Likeness of Elizabeth” must serve as a sample. It needn't have been done as well as it is, for me, because I can read almost anything written about painters. But I hadn't read three pages before I knew that something interesting in feminine psychology was coming, as well as a moving story. It was. I cannot leave off without listing for you the things which Margot bought after selling her artistic integrity—she didn’t really sell it, as it turned out, but that’s the story—to Arnheim: A cook, a nurse, a case of Bacardi, two Chelsea sconces, a string of blood coral beads, five pieces of old blue Bristol, and a vacuum cleaner. INasmucu as Franklin P. Adams’s column in the New York Morld gives a great many people a certain amount of pleasure at the outset of each day, it is a satisfaction to give him a sort of citation for his services by com- mending his new book, “So Much Velvet” (Doubleday Page). It contains excellent light reading, which is the most difficult thing in the world to write. And it pre- serves to us the article, “Knowledge Is Power,” inspired by the advertisements of the Pocket Dictionary Course, which might otherwise have been nothing but a happy memory of a certain issue of the New York World. Baird Leonard. The Louvain Library Fund © Tue Lovuvatx Liprary was one of the losses of the World War, and the American people promised the Bel- gians it should be rebuilt. Appealing for this Fund, therefore, is only asking our friends to help make good where America’s honor is involved. Of the million dollars needed, a little more than half has been collected. We still have a long way to go, and at the five hundredth anniversary of the founding of Louvain University in August next, we surely don’t want America’s gift to appear with the string of a heavy debt dragging after it! Won't you help to make our contribution a little more than the $331 Lire has so far collected, please? We Incomprehensible Humans Wuew a man who has taken half a lifetime to learn his craft renders us a service, we kick because he charges too much, And when a man breaks into our house at the risk of being either shot or sent to prison, we set the police on him. But when we are asked for the price of a cup of cawfy by a panhandler in the street who is too lazy to work and too unenterprising to be a burglar, we hand out to him. App Napoleons of Industry—The enterprising salesman who succeeds in selling pajamas to the Ku Klux Klan. HE CHRISTMAS NUMBER— out next week—will include over seventy pages of the BEST that Lire can offer. Don't miss it! WTNHOOP MALLENOECK CRAWYOND COMPANY, HEW TORK comicbooks.com