Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-04

restlessness in the blood makes us
turn away from men and houses to the
woods and lakes, and mountains, De-
scriptions of these places, even dry
guide book recitals, awake vivid in
terest, but best of all is a good story.
The Peoples Magazine has several just
such tales in its July number which
exactly fill the bill. "Edric Ash
brooks Wife" by William Macleod
Raine, is a love story of the Rocky
mountains, full of the color and breath
of the big places, and with a theme OF
mixed identities which holds one abb
sorbed to the end. Still another little
love tale which portrays wildly the
charm and mystery of the great Sa-
hara is called 1.-The Gods Arrive" by
Kathryn Rhodes. A young girl-wife,
Influenced by the immense silences,
confesses to her husband an incident
in her past life with another man, and
finds he has known it from the first.
"Staked with a Short Rope by
Mauchline Muir. is an interesting tale
of the Tennessee feudists, in which
young sheriff from the settlements"
comes to install law and order, meets
a young mountain girl, daughter OF
savage old timer, and wins her love.
Quite aside from these timely sto-
ries, Peoples Magazine is full of good
things. A clever detective yarn, en-
Titled MTS. Garter IldHlpllu9t D9
Howard Garis: "A Dead Chapter" by
Andrew Soutar; the final portion of
1.-THE Mysterious Mrs. Graham" by
VIII N. Harden, help to make up Il
magazine full to the brim of live and
entertaining fiction.
The present number of Smiths Maga-
zine is one of the best we have ever
seen of this publication; and for in
terest, variety and brightness is better
than any fiction magazine on the news
stands this month. The number of the
atrical portraits with which the maga-
zine opens has been increased, and this
month they are even more beautifully
printed than before. The magazine Is
well illustrated throughout, and, being
the only standard illustrated all-fctiOn
magazine in the country, should have
a wide popularity 1t opens with a COM
plete novel, THE Owner" by Kathryn
Jarboe, and contains a dozen or more
short stories, any one of which would
be worth the price of the number The
new series of mystery stories by c. N.
and A. NJ. Williamson. which has been
secured for Smiths, bids fair to be the
best thing these authors have ever
done. The story in the present number
is one of the best mystery stories we
have ever read. Anne O'Hasan begins
in this number also, "The Confessions
of a Stenographer." These "confes-
sions" will run through several num-
bers and will show some of the seamier
sides of New York business life. The
first installment will catch the interest
of any woman who so much as glances
at it, and will repay a careful reading.
There is funny story by Holman F.
Day, who writes regularly for the pub
lication; strong, gripping story of the
awakening of young mans conscience,
by Herbert Quick. author of Virginia
of the Air Lanes: and charming love
stories by Kate Whiting Patch, Ed
ward Boltwood, s. Carleton and others.
There is an essay on the opera, by
Rupert Hughes, and another on the
drama of the day by Adolph Klauber.
How little we of the present age.
with its multiplicity of mechanical
conveniences can realize of those long,
dark ages of development, when truly
invention was the offspring of direr
necessity than we ever have known.
Strange to consider, that in all the
ages a primary essential to existence
whether of clans, tribes or nations
have been weapons of defense and COM
bat, and so strife, whether with wild
beasts or trained armies, has been as
travail preceding birth-ever a precur-
generation. Our armored battle fleets,
aerial scouts and submarine sleuths
mean no more to us than did the flint
head spear and the stone hammer TO
the ancient cave men; the same in
stinct is the exponent of both eras.
Curious, then, 1t is, to have reached
a period when, with serious intent ma
tions unite in holding peace con-
crosses" to discuss the feasibility of
hn a hOl C1 Of xUar 70
ever, with any abatement of the pro-
duction of the numerous devices relied
upon by the several nations for self
protection. In the July number of
Popular Mechanics H. H. Windsor sug-
gests a plan by which world peace
might be assured.
The same number of the magazine,
however, discusses among its 232 arti-
cles and 237 illustrations the use of
aeroplanes as scouts, the control of
war fleets by wireless, the world-gird-
ling trip, the use in England of auto
mobiles for moving land forces and
describes the new English battleship
Vanguard. Elaborate preparations for
world peace. Popular Mechanics, be it
remembered. is not partial to any phase
of mechanical development. Among
the July features are articles on MO
torcycle Fire Brigades," 1.-The Scheme
to Signal Mars" Rules of the Road
for Auto Drivers" Mechanical Win
dow Attractions" "The Great EXPOSE
ton of the Northwest" Distinguishing
Oil Flames with Foam" electrical
Power from Wind Power" Private
Electric Lighting Plant for $780, and
others too numerous to mention. H. H.
Windsor deals with an interesting va
riety of subjects in his editorial; the
"Shop Notes" department Is up to its
usual high standard, and Amateur
Mechanics" contains many attractive
features. The motto of the publication
is, written so you can understand it.
William Archer, the great English
critic, in an article in the July Nc
Clures tells the truth for the first time
about the negro problem in the south;
Mrs Fremont Older in THE Story of a
Reformers Wife" has written a fact
story about San Francsco's graft pros
ecutions, which is fully as absorbing
as many notable pieces of fiction; Bur
ton J. Hendrick shows that more has
been learned about cancer in the last
six years than in the preceding six
thousand: Albertus McCreary describes
the Battle of Gettysburg as he saw it
when a boy, and George r. Parker con-
cludes his Cleveland papers with the
story of the events leading up to the
presidents famous Venezuela message.
The fiction includes; "Outposts of En-
pire," by Eleanor Stuart, the story of a
religious war. full of the lure of saw
age Africa; Brutality" a strong sea
story by Lincoln Colcord; lille" by
Harris Merton Lyon. and "The Little
Harmonizer of His Threefold Nature" +"
by Marion Hamilton Carter.
Everybody remembers the spectacu-
lar visit of the kaiser to his eX-majesty
"Abdul the Damned as Mr. Gladstone
Opce called the sultan Rut II has re-