Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-08-31
BOOK LORE
What The September Magazine Con-
tain of Interest To Readers

Prominent among the good things
in THE Outing Magazine for Sep
TENDER are Stewart Edward Whites
story, 1.-The Ranch''-the first INSTALL
met of fine serial of Southern Cali
fornia; I'm the Trout Land of Idaho"
by Charles S. Moody, a fishing and
camping story of Lake Pend d'Oreille
country. and Dillon Wallace's Essen
tials for Saddle snd Camper" writ
ten for the vacationist who likes 10
rough il with his pony
There are gun and rod articles. too.
of an unusual type. Ducks on
Rock" by Percy M. Gushing. a Long
Island shooting experience. "Helps
for Snipe Shooting" by Fred A.
Dominy, and Edward c. Crossman's
Measuring Your Gun Stock" loaded
with tips for the man who thinks a lot
of his gun. A story CT trip to the
San Bias Indians of Panama by ]. R.
Ives, an airedale terrier article by
Williams Haynes, and 1.-The Automo-
bile Brake" by H. w. Slauson, round
out capital number.
The September "Woman's Home
Companion" is the advance fall fash
ion number of that periodical. 1t
contains an immense amount of fash
ion news that will interest and be of
practical service to women. Grace
Margaret Gould, who conducts the
| fashion department of the "Compan-
ion, does her work admirably; that
| is, her object seems to be-not to
present fashions in way that will in
| fiuence women to waste money on
clothes, but in a way to show the
/ great mass of women how they may
dress fashionably and yet at reason
able cost.
On the entertainment side the Sep
TENDER Companion" is an unusual
number. Notable and lively fiction is
contributed by Alice Brown, Annie
Hamilton Donnell, Anna McClube
Sholl, Mary Heaton Worse, John d.
Swain and others. Eight special al.
ticles, full of new facts and ideas,
are included. The titles of some OF
these are: "What Companion Read,
ers Think About the Cost of Living, >
1.-The Boy and Some of His Opinions, ,
1.-THE Modern Woman's Paradise
Housekeeping by Electricity, Saw
ing Steps in the Kitchen"
The September issue of THE Smart
Set leads off with a rafting sum
mertime novelette, by Arthur Henry
| Vesey. There's a sprightly younc
widow in it, gay, careless but really
worthwhile young lord, a frowning,
bespectacled step-daughter- appointed
by the deceased's will to chaperon hel
| stepmother-and clever younl
Americn brother who puts over
Machiavellian scheme to blast his sis
ter's too hasty romance. The title O.
the story Lord Algy Takes the Odd, ,
| will pique the interest of bridge play
ers. The action fits from New Yorl
City to Berkshire resort, accompany
ing the tantalizing young widow, heI
horses, motors and the wonderful ar
ray of accessories she provides herself
with, out of the money left her BY
dear, dead hubby, thence to a NORTH
River steamship pier, where stoney
hearted 'ate and a worldlywise aun
shuttle the cards and make a fresh
deal.
James L. Ford contributes an ESSAY
on ''The Highbrow. He defines tn,
place the "highbrow" occupies in oul
social and industrial system as that O.
an audience for women with theories
When women got to holding meeting,
to air their grievances and views or
things generally, they had to have ar
audience. Business men had no time
to listen to them. So rose the race o.
"highbrows," who attend the wo
mems meetings, applaud, drink te;
and thus fill a more or less usefu
place in the feminine cosmos. "Know
ledge" by Edwin L. Sabin, is 6
strong short story of college profess
sor based on the theory that too much
learning is sometimes as dangerous as
too little. Aurora at Victoria" by
Ward Muir, is funny account of the
disturbance caused by a man who check.
ed marble statue in the waiting room
/ of railway station.