Life — October 22, 1925 — page 71: what you’re looking at

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LIFE Life and Letters (Continued from page 22) Ir is a matter of record that in a room well lined with books, a casual dummy or sitter-out at bridge who browses slong the shelves will pass up first editions and the classics for Cheiro’s *Palmistry.” So Ethel Watts Mum- I's “Hand-Reading To-day” kes), being a scientific treatment ubject in a chatty, understand-- able style, should have a large sale. Mrs. Mumford as an amateur palmist has been the life of many a party, and her experience in reading hands all over the world has resulted in a new angle which everybody interested in himseli— ind who isn't?—should find diverting. GaMatieL Braprorp, whose papers in the Atlantic Monthly instituted the biography which Lytton Strachey and others have since popu- offers in “Wives” (Harper) the portraits of seven Amer- women joined in matrimony to various outstanding characters in our ory, Appearing on his program are Benedict Arnold, Mrs. Aaron Mrs. Benjamin F. Butler, Madison, Mrs. James G. Blaine Jefferson Da and Mrs. Abra- Lincoln, Excellent reading. So er venture in the same diree- neommon Americans,” by Don Seitz (Bobbs-Merrill), which gives close-ups of such celebrated non-con- ormists as Tecumseh, Joseph Smith, Whistler, Henry George, Susan B. \nthony, Mary Baker Eddy, and David Baird Leonard, irized, now Books Received Progress and Constitution. By Newton D, Baker (Scribner). “Dawgs.” A collection of the best tories about them compiled by Charles Wright Gray (Holt), The Dreams of Chang. Banin (Knopf). er Joy. By et (Doran). Notes and Anecdotes of Many By Ivan Stephen Vincent IN THE JUNGLE “ou, actNor!...WHAT A STUNNING RUG!” —Le Monde Colonial (Paris). LET MUNSINGWEAR COVER YOU WITH SATISFACTION Hosiery UNSING ear Underwear Munsingwear is now obtainable in hosiery as well as in union suits. The hosiery line comprises an exceptionally large assort- ment of numbers in the wanted colors and materials and is already recognized My the trade as one of the great hosiery lines of the country. You will find the same fine quality and workmanship in the hosiery that for so many years have characterized all under garments bearing the Munsinqwear trade mark symbol. | Munsingwear Quality Assures Comfort and Service THE MUNSINGWEAR CORPORATION MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA James Bucklin Bishop Years. By (Scribner). Portrait of a Publisher. By Grant Overton (Appleton). Richard Martin. By Wellesley Pain (Small, Maynard). The Under Dogs. By Hulbert Footner (Doran). Forty-Two Fables of La Fon- taine. Translated by Edward Marsh (Harper). An Old-Fashioned Senator. By Harris Dickson (Stokes). Half-Told Tales. By Henry van Dyke (Scribner). Lord Timothy Dexter. By J. P. Marquand (Minton, Balch). The Outcast. By Luigi Pirandello (Dutton). The Rector of Maliseet. By Leslie Reid (Dutton). ACTING PLAYS amateurs. Monologs, Recitations, Drills, Minstrel and Vaude, Ville Jokes and Sketches: ideas for entertainments Send for free cataiog. ORAMATIC-PUBLISHING CO., 842 Se. Dearborn St., CHICAGO No Hair Offends Where Neet is Used We per tube. 35,000 Drag and Dept. ‘Nect. Money back if it fails to please you. comicbooks.com