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Show The Limerick Bosk. It is to laugh hard and long when you read "The Limerick Up to Date Book," a lovely bunch of nonsense compiled and written by Mrs. Ethel Watts Mumford, and illustrated by the author with the clever help of our fat and joyous friend, Addison Ad-dison Mizner. Mrs. Mumford does not let down on her stuff, which appeared in the "Cynic's Calendar" Cal-endar" some moths ago, and every limerick is full of bright lines. For instance: There was a young man named Clyde Who was once at a funeral espied; When asked who was dead He smilingly said: "I don't know, I just came for the ride." SCULPTURE. There was an old sulptor numed Phidias, Whose knowledge of Art was invidious. He carved Aphrodite Without any nightie Which startled the purely fastidious. GENTLENESS. There was a fair maiden of Siam Who said to her lover, "O, Priam, You may kiss me, of course, But you've got to use force And, God knows, you are stronger than I am!" And the pictures are in a class with the verse, the whole volume being most artistic. Paul Elder & Co., oL San Francisco, havethe seond edition in press. Price, $1.00. i2& O t "College Records." The College Records, announced by Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco, fill a field of such obvious demand that it is remarkable to have hitherto escaped es-caped attention. Practically the two volumes are intended to serve as note books in which the various var-ious experiences of the four years of undergraduate undergrad-uate life may be recorded, being topically arranged, ar-ranged, with pages and stubs for the insertion of photographs and other souvenirs. Beyond this, however, the authors have entered into the work with the enthusiasm of their own college experiences exper-iences and by means of full-pag3 cartoons, topical decorations, verses and other literary material, have made the books of essential interest. The publishers promise two handsome volumes, to be printed in two colors on fine paper and substantially substan-tially bound. "The Girls' College Record," illustrated illus-trated and compiled by Virginia Woodson Frame; "The Men's College Record," written and arranged by Wallace Irwin, illustrated by Gordon Ross. The price of each volume, bound in buckram, is to be $1.50 net; or in suede lambskin, $3.00 net. |