The San Francisco call., 1904-06-04
SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE.


Number will appear 1t will be important for the
long list of notable writers who have contributed
some OF their best stories to its pages
Norman Duncan, a writer The Sunday Call,
has written THE Strength of Men,, exclusively for this
edition. 1t will be surprising those who read
his Fruits OF To' in the Sunday Call week or two
ago. for powerful weird spring that latter tale
it had of the sweep of the elements the terror
of the unknown the fine stocsm the face of nexorabe
fate the depth of human hatred the height of human
love that is shown in this work 1t aIstory to
show men what real are while to those of the
genter sex who hold strong opinions to which love
deepest and best-men women-it will be revelation
Those who have been reading Frank H. Spearman's
series of railroad stories running in The Sun
day Call have doubtless noticed that while each is
complete i'll itself, the series whole make up
connected history of the building and the reorganization
and reconstruction of great Western railroad with all
the difficulties that have to be conended with in virgin
country of precipitous mountains and blizzard swept
pl1ins while in the web and woof of each story the
secrets and the science of raroadng of which the
experienced traveller learns little.
The story of Soda Water Sal" makes sky-scraping
locomotive almost living breathing creature of brain
and snews, while there is something pathetic in the
seemingly artless ptng of father against son of
those midnight adventures which only the railroad
and the train dispatcher-may live through once but
again.
But from the essentially modern, intensely exciting
flying trapeze of Alec Bruces tales may be considered
far cry yet is there the spirit of practical uptodate
enterprise and managerial sharpness shown in The Price
OF Threat by the latter author, which makes this
tragic tale with delightful ending less overwrought
fiction than a simple record of fact The four-cornered
struggle between the giant and the beautiful little eques
reme the hand and the pathetic clown and the
little circus imp the other is truly unique and START
ling circus stories 1t raises lump in the reader
throat only TO cause him to gup it down with side
S. lifting laugh over the very last line.
However, it is not possible to outline every story in
The Sunday Calls Summer Fiction Number tomorrow
brief few of the titles and the authors
will be sufficient show its wide scope and the
tive diversity of though specially clever
Jerome K. Jerome's witty and caustic article THE
American Girls Etiquette" while The Crimson Wis
icned Cow by Edwin J. Webster, is weird and amusing
to ludicrous decree
Bending the Twg" is new and particularly apt
'fable foolish which of the order of wttcsm
that is broadly quoted while exceptionally dainty and
finished are the "hahour storiettes"-"Shadows" by
Harty Willard "a Will and Way" by Martha Nc
Culloch Williams; Doctor Thornton's Failure" by Otho
B. Senga Over the Sea- by Kate Cleary; 'His Train
ing by Harry Preston; Cherries" by John Bridges
by the Hand of Providence by Keith Gordon ETC. etc
Still there many other articles of quite different
sort for those to whom fiction by world-famous
authors, does appeal For instance there is across
the Pacific Oceanic Liner, bv Bert Levy, who is
noted Austraias foremost artist particularly for his
Jewish pictures. He has illustrated his article with
some of his clever pen work Then there "The oldest
House in California, by Albert Dezendorf; Dangers
of the Hero Behind the Bat by Frank Morehouse "The
Wartime Girl" by Augusta Prescott; "The Fashionable
Summer Hats for Men" by Tom Dillon; THE Training
of Children by William J. Shearer; The Equestrian
Girl and Her Hair" by Madge Moore; John McLaren
the superintendent of Golden Gate Park, who goes to
Europe for ideas for beautifyng great pleasure
ground, etc. ETC.