Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-19

theatrical section. Doesn't all this
make good the frs. remark?
The Peoples Magazine for August is
one of the best which has ever been
put upon the stands in the amount OF
pure entertainment it offers as well as
the high quality of its fiction. The
frontispiece is an exquisite and richly
tinted picture of Billie Burke, repro
duced from a painting done specially
for the magazine, and renders perfect
ly the captivating allure which dis
tinguishes this famous girl-actress
Following is a generous dramatic port
folio of thirty-two pages which con-
tains scenes from the New YORK stage
attractively printed on heavy white
enameled paper and accompanied by
iluminative sketches of the themes OF
the plays.
The fiction is particularly suited to
the warm season, and accords well
with fans, cool, tinkling drinks, ana
hammocks swung out of doors. There
is a long, complete novel of unique ad-
venture, entitled THE Airship War,
by Ray Wynn, which is a real master
piece of exciting romance with love
and financial intrigue and chicanery.
And what summer number is COM
plete without the detective element to
stir the languid Imagination? The
Yellow Powder" by Howard r. Garis,
is one Of the best yarns of that kind
that has ever been written, and pre-
sents a mystery which battles for a
time even the trained intelligence of
Sherman Ford, the wonderful musl-
cian-detective himself,
OF a more thoughtful type is the
opening novel, THE Conflict" which
is based upon Maurice Y. Samuels
play of that name. It Is remarkable
reconstruction Of Balzac's weird ro-
nance, "The Wild ASS Skin" in which
the now we'll known power of mental
suggestion is employed to furnish a
new conclusion and an explanation.
The story was written in collaboration
with Mr.. Samuels by a well known
playwright, who prefers to conceal his
Identity under the pen name of THE
Man in the Box"
Gunter's Magazine is among the
leaders of the magazines in the quality
and variety to the dozen or so short
stories it runs every month in addition
to a complete novelette, and Install
ments of serial novels. In the August
number there is a fine collection of
stirring, entertaining short stories.
Among them should be noted "A To-
ken for His Lady" by Preston Ward,
a strong and intensely human story Of
stage life: ITO Hounds" very
charming love story with international
complications, by Elliot Halestler;
"The Absolving of Hal" by John Rich
elsen, an unusually dramatic story or
the great lakes; The Venetian Glass,
romantic tale, by stephen Hewlett;
"The Man from Patagonia" by George
K. Stiles, a quick-moving revelation of
deal in thigh finance; "a Fiddle in
Pawn" by Edwin Bliss, probably the
best of the unique "Levinson Lea,
Lawyer" series of complete stories;
Cupid, Angler" by Charles B. Hoad-
ley; THE Red Guide" by Jennie Har-
ris oliver; THE Lose Slipper" by Wal
ter L. w. Distelhorst; "En Passant,"
by Albert Whiting Fox; "At the Sign
of the Butterfly" by Stella Leerburger
these last five evidently selected as
ideal summer reading--and they are.
Special features In the July Delin-
Gator are: Saving New York in Sum-
mer," by Mabel Potter Daggett; 1.-THE
Other Side of Studying in Paris" by
Mildred Stapley: What Health Means
in the Education of the Child" by Jo-
seph Brown Cook. NJ. D.: 1.-THE Turkish
Woman" by N. c. Adossides; THE
Most Dramatic Event in My Life" by
Annie S. Peck; After College Days,
What?" by Ruth Cranston; october
Vagabonds." by Richard lie Gallienne;
Cheating" a song, Clare Hummer;
"Stories of Our Babies" when a Roof
Is Not a Roof; BILLY Brad and the
Big Lie" by Ellis Parker Butler; "The
Dead Past" by Alice Brown; "a Dis
cord" by Arthur Conan Doyle; "Stra-
della" a serial story, by F. Marion
Crawford: "Fetes and Frocks in Paris, "
by Edouard La Fontaine; 1.-THE Penny
Dreadfuls in Dress" by Clara z. Sim
cox; "Styles of the Month";" 1.-THE It
inerary of the Trunk" by Helen Berk-
eley-Loyd; How Shall We Get Safe
Milk for Babies?" The Delineator Child
Rescue Campaign, "Dressmaking Made
Easy" by Eleanor Chalmers; "At the
Point of the Needle" conducted by
Ethel NJ. Harris; Questions on Dress