Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-27
The New Serial by Roy Norton

ID EADERs of our SUNDAY MAGAZINE are familiar with
N the work of Roy Norton. He is one of those writers
whose carry the guaranty of interest He
always has something to say and he knows how to it.
You will remember "The Vanishing Fleets, the serial
that first published in SUNDAY MAGAZINE, which
made such sensation. While attracted wider attention
than anything else Mr. Norton has written, many people
have found greater satisfaction in his shorter tales
pecaly those about Dr. Harvey, who is bound to grow
more famous years 60
The serial by Mr.. Norton. which begins in
next ISSUE has of the quality of the wise and good
country doctor, who and lived all the time
than the scientific sensationasm of the naval story
HARDPAN & CO. is Western mining story, very
modern story. There is living writer who is
cessul in depicting men, especially with the bark
Roy Norton knows them and loves them, and when he
writes about them he makes them live. He understand
the drama in their lives and the sentiment especially the
sentiment.
You may know that Mr.. Norton is an engineer by pro-
ession rather he before he devoted all his energies
to writing. And the engineers the modern Adventures
the modern wonder workers. They live romance like the
country doctor. Their work is beside which the
achievements of odtme heroes of adventure dull and
commonplace.
When you meet Hardpan Brown in the very beginning
of the serial you will at recognize the Roy
Norton touch And when the real hero along you
swiftly realize freshness, novelty, that remains
after you feel that you have known Jim King for long
time, if you had never met him before.
Very early in the story MIR. Norton emphasizes fact
that is rather sartngthat mining is really destructive
work. especially gold mining and therefore industry
it be recognized being the front rank of the
worlds activities.
But maybe you will be interested in the love story, which
is made plain once and the clashes that Indicated
OF is necessary say that the tale is full of
action and that there is real drama with grip in it.
THE UNBIDDEN GUEST will keep you in state of
excitement especially if you woman; for only
could understand fully the feeling of the mother in
the tale by Elmore Elliott Peake. But mere
feel the tension sufficiently to keep his pulse jumping
After the excitement subsidies there peculiar
phase in the determination of right and wrong Of course
from legal viewpoint, if takes money that doesn't
belong to him, his crime must be punished But you
measure the man only by the motive. And when
steals from about the highest motive that could inspire
human being, the question is rather puzzng But read
the story and decide for yourself.
THE EDGE OF THE KNIFE is story of the Orient by
John lie Breton. in which the Characterization, the
vivid picturesqueness of the background and the life of
the people just interesting the drama the story
1t has real vgor and interest In fact issue is
especially strong in its fiction.
ROOMNG A BACHELOR is another chapter in the
Confessions of Social Promoter. which shows that
just eager to be admitted to exclusive
society Like its predecessors, this install
ment draws aside the curtain and permits you to the
inside workings of fashionable society," The ankness the
knowledge and the view of life presented by the Promoter
extraordinarily interesting He makes some of us feel
that know absolutely nothing about of the most
powerful people in the country, if we have read
columns about them.
WITH THE GUNS is the second of the three articles
Our Coasts and an Enemy, and it gives
vivid picture of the power of the great weapons
and the way in which they handled Incidentally, it