Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-04

/ prominent People in Picture and
The fiction. of excellent quality, in
cludes:
Salvatore Schneider" by Ernest
"The Manicure Girl by George Ran
dolph Chester.
.'The Tangled Web. Part H." by
Ethel Watts Mumford-Grant.
1.-THE Sporting Spirit" by George
''Af the AFFAIR of the Browns" by
Harrison Clark.
What Happened in Harrison's Of
fee" by George Hyde Preston.
Wireless" by McCready Sykes.
THE White Night of Miss OCalla-
ghan." by Caroline S. Bailey.
1.-The Haze of the Honeymoon" by
Lucille Baldwin Van Slylxe.
novel with a delightfully."- "horsy'
flavor entitled, 1.-THE Mistress Of
Hounds" by Jay Hardy. is the feature
of the July Smart Set, and no better
story could be found for summer read
ing. The author knows intimately all
the types OF which he writes, and the
whole novel canters along at a brisk
and lively gait. A delightful love story
is woven around the heroine, who is
the central figure in smart summer
colony. Beatrix Demarest Lloyd con-
tributes a short story, Madame DAT
BEL" so cameo-like that 1t might also
be considered a bit from the French;
Ella P. Midgley has a very engaging
tale entitled, "Three Fools and Wise
One; Eleanor NJ. Ingram writes "A
Galvez with the Gray Eyes"-a story
with a French creole setting; George
Sylvester Viereck, in the form of let
tiers, tells a very modern love story
| entitled, Claudia; Austin Adams
writes most original tale, The Room
at the Top; John j. a'Becket writes
story as gruesome and strange as any
thing of Poes, called "Lallaby;
Doubt; and Edna Kenton, whose work
1 grows in power, has never revealed her
| talents to better advantage than in her
story, IAN Unimaginative Man."
Charming fiction is contributed by well
known writers.
A real war is going on In the heart
of our own country. In four states men
are burning and blowing up buildings,
uprooting fields and shooting to kill,
| If need be. Day Allen Wiley has made
an investigation of the tobacco war
and its causes for the Metropontan
| Magazine His article, THE Night
Riders appears in the July number.
Prof. Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard
university the celebrated scientist,
has an article in the same number on
"Hypnotism and Freedom, which
weighs the value of hypnotism as
curative agent. An article of interest
is "The Passing of the Ferries" by
Jackson Cross, splendidly illustrated
with Photographic studies by Alvin
I,angdon Coburn. waterloo Today"
by Robert Howard Russell, compares
the battlefield as it was when Napo-
Icons army Numbered across II with
| or1a win
Bull has another of his stories of the
fur bearers in the July number. The
fiction is of unusual quality. including
"The Color Line" by Lucy Pratt; THE
wedding Journey of Felice Arguello,"
by Charles Frederick Holder; 1.-The In
truder," by. Mayne Lindsay; The
Marygirl," by Helen Woljeska, anad
"Raiah." by Robert Alexander Wason.
In the American for July "Mr. Doo-
ley'' writes a platform for the Demo-
cratic party, and has fun with Bryan,
Governor johnson and the other can
didates. Octave Mirbeau, writing on
Animals and Automobiles" tells of
motorists experiences with the beasts
of the road-horses, cows, chickens,
dogs, geese mules and men. A. Pop
pini's illustrations for this article are
as clever as genius can make them
George Fitch describes a visit with
Roosevelt, and McCutcheon's cartoons
add to the gayety of the article. G..
Stanley Hall writes wonderfully and
yet very plainly, about race suicide
and the instruction of children during
adolescence. Ray Stannard Baker de-
scribes "The Black Mans Silent Pow
err" The fiction is stirring and sub
stantial.
Ainslee's for July leads off with a
new serial story by May Sinclair, who
made herself famous as the author OF
1.-The Divine Fire" Her latest story,
THE mortal Moment" it has been the
good fortune of Ainslee's to secure and
! Judging from the opening chapters it Is
one which will prove Of intense in
terest, especially to women. Next In
| Importance is the complete novel by
Henry c. Rowland, called IAN Ameri-
can Pasha," an exciting and dramatic
account of the adventures of an ex-
officer In the American army. Among
the short stories is a characteristic one
by o. Henry. which he calls Buried
Treasure" Mrs. Wilson Woodrow has
another of her delightful short stories,
called "Rudolfs Little Playmate"
Steel Williams contributes one of his
typical western tales, "A Blackstone
| Of the Bad Lands" confirming the i'm
preston he has already made that he
knows what he writes about A short
story by Anne Warner, when Heaven
Touched the Earth" is another feature.
The frontispiece in July Suburban
Life Is a picture of Secretary of War
| William II. Taft, Caught when he
was taking "a day off," and is decid--
eddy unconventional. The story OF
Dean Kaye of Topeka is a leading arti-
Gle in this number. 1.-THE Amusing Is
land of Nantucket" is an article which
| is sure to provoke laughter, whdle
protecting the Country Home from
Fire" Is a serious contribution on an
! important subject "Then Acres of
| Ducks" is a story of how one man has
solved the problem of making living.
| "Canoeing as a Weekend Recreation
| il full of interest, and 1.-THE Highest
| Development of the Summer Camp"
by J. Horace Mcfarland, is a finely II.
| Illustrated and well written account or
a beautiful Pennsylvania summer col
/ ony.
There is refreshment for the hot
j weather in the July Everybodys o.
i Henry leads off with picturesque tale
of the west, 1.-THE Last Of the TrouDa-
dours,' and he is followed by b: j..
! Rath. who has a funny tale, MT.
Trimble's Speech" and by Arthur sui
livant Hoffman, who puts his polite
and gentlemanly burglar into a new
setting; the story is called Patsy MOI
ran and the Trappings of Chivalry:
/ Anne Warner has pathetic little child
story, 1.-The Surrender Of Corvallis