Life, 1926-02-11 · page 35 of 40
Life — February 11, 1926 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews**, not political satire. The main content consists of: 1. **"Rhymed Reviews: The Clio"** — A satirical poem by Arthur Guiterman reviewing L.H. Myers's novel about a yacht expedition. The verse mocks the passengers as "cultivated super-spiders" and "a breed that there is no excuse for" — upper-class English snobs who embark on an ill-fated Amazon journey. The satire targets aristocratic pretension and incompetence. 2. **Book reviews** of contemporary fiction (The Funny Side Out, Unravelled Knots, etc.) — straightforward literary notices. 3. **Large advertisements** for Johnston's Chocolates and Porto Rico Line cruises — commercial content filling roughly half the page. The Clio review is the only satirical element; it's directed at social class stereotypes rather than political figures or events. For modern readers, it reflects early 20th-century American skepticism toward the British upper class.
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Rhymed Reviews The Clio By LH. Myers Chas. Scriber's Sons Asoarp the Clio, white The yacht of Lady M Were who brought. th as foam, Oswestry, none hon From church—they checked them in the vestry Engaging, ruthless, keen, refined. They well might seem to rank ¢ siders A not precisely human kind Of cultivated super-spiders The highborn men were noth The girls were not the marry, kind you'd And one young wastrel beat the Dutch! The owner's oldest son, Lord Harry He steered them up the Amaz To put a scheme in execution He ran the ship aground upon A neatly plotted revolution And there they stuck through torrid f With snakes and mammoth frogs bunkies Among the jut The s monkeys ly waterways, bugs and howling At last they got away to sea To treat their bites with strong am. monia, While Harry went The autocrat of The Clio nearly str With deep regret For if she had, I The world we severely fare opir uld not have gri There wasn't either belle or beau On board whom I had any use for The author plainly meant to show A breed that there is no excuse for Irthur Guiterman Among the New Books The Funny Side Out. By Nellie Revell (Doran). A collection ot after, during and before dinner with apologies to whoever, if anybody, told them first. Unravelled Knots. By the Bar- oness Orezy (Doran) ection of mystery yarns told through the me dium of a weird eccentric with baggy trousers and horn-rimmed_ spectacles. Just the thing when you can't sleep at night. Kathie's Diary. garet Eggleston (Doran). An authentic document beginning in 1876 and wu ing the story of one girl's life. Almost everybody likes to read diaries. The Thomas Mitchell) ories, Edited Mar American’s London. By Hunt Martin (Edwin V. If yon should ever travel! The Distinction of a Gift of Johnston’s Chocolates Checolates im one of the better class Bores in year neighbeurbood. ROBE NEW YORK "THE sophisticated giver well knows the value of Johnston's for paying social “debts,’"—for Johnston's is always correct The secret of its good-ness is one of a generation's standing. Today... because of it, John&on’s has won a pinnacle place among the thathave part of our daily lives. OHNST MPANY Black Harvest. By | (Doran). Another ot tly tions of the world in a crack at militari tomary prophet as pr The Dolomites. he Medici Socic rist, cli uld know which has become holiday gnificent ations Unchanging Quest. Gibbs pout the be Let's Go to Florida. Henry Barbour (Dodd, M is a rumor that will ¢ not do Palm Beach Fire. By 1 ton) Both lips (Dodd, Mc licking rom: bystander in which almost any time, in the know three hundred pages. A on the gentle reader, wl dark as to whether the v or not. Jericho Sands. By (Knopf). The destructive an innocen swallows a new which will result in a terrific ex, thereby maki: extremely ne Mary Fortune's Trials. By H ut Scotland Yard s under Italian + resort By Philip 1 50) Island of Enchantment NEW STEAMSHIP COAMO NOW IN SERVICE wonderful cruise at beautiful Ce Option ch » menodati seving trips i rv ry Thursday Cruise Department PORTO RICO LINE Broadway, New York City Borden influences