The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-09-22

Flowing ooid.- Rex Beach: liar.
per a Bros.
A real Rex Reach story ~ chance.
puisating with the drive ana combat
o. men's battle against nature and
each other. brlmful Of romance.
huFnor and suspense. !, n story
that every reader % The FpcilerH'
and The silver Horde VIII want
20 read.
The scen. 10 the new Kionfiks Of
the Trxns oil fields. during tho
Doom which followed the war. Rex
Beach knows this country. 7,
makes a magnificent background
for shsa ssory Of romance ard sx.
element. In which human beings
mr.. shown IN their true colors in
tho heat Of the fierce struggle for
flowing gold tho oil that gurhes
from sabtcrranean reservoirs.
The Tremendous Event. Aau-
rice Leblanc. Macauiay Co. The
creator Of Afsene fAtpsn-buildsr
o. mystery. master Of tho super.
tNEltt~~00fsINFH NffutftAs
A series Of eaFshauakes--an up
shfuasinr of iand--fhe disappear.
ance OF the English ehannei--the
uniting Of France and England
can you imagine the resultss
Scientists claim that this win hap.
pen some day. Here ~ Ia pictured
lives crushed out. new lands ere.
.s.s a.. 80 ..-mm...~. ~ r.nstsex,m
brought 90 the surface.
And the man who first crossed
this new neck az innd--can you see
hiins Can you picture him. the
great oxplor~r--thc firrt man 20 set
foot upon land 1000 years old as
men reckon timer
There In realism IN II: breath
taking pages: dangers to thrill you.
and love that will capture you.
'.fummers In Mufu.- Philip Cur.
tiss. Century Co.
Mr.. Curtis. IN known for HIS hu.
morous short fiction In tina maya.
zines. and this fuii-sized novel. a.
whimsical as his short stories. will
be welcomed heartily BY a reading
public which gets too little OF
laughter and eapricious fancy In i,s
novels
"Mummsrs In Muftt- could be
called a story OF theatrical life. tho
the central figure In neither an
actor nor a playwright. II IL. how.
ever. n picture OF n musical com.
edy on tour The central figures
are n wealthy young man OF the
almost vanished New England arts.
,ocrncy. pure relic OF the victori-
an age. who TO his own huge
amusement suddenly finds himself
tho owner OF a whole production"
and tho manager Of pretty. tenn.
peramcntai young woman who In
playing the suubrette role. The
story IA kind OF romance which
finds its enjoyment In constantly
touching realism rather than in
soaring completely away from the
actual world.
'1oncsome Town" Ethel and
James porrance: Macaulay Co.
Some man might have submitted
to tho injustice done him. but not
"why.Not" Papo OF Hellroaring
Valley.
He was Westerner; he had
made n fortune IN the Montana.
Wyoming oil fieids--he was rich;
that In for day. wail Street
reached out It's hands to snatch
away his trenaursr
He shed his picturesque West.
orn clothes; he spont his money
In handfuls; no was out 10 find
life. But life would have none OF
him. In a city OF five million
souls. he was stranger
God" he muttcrcd, ut aln't New
York. It's Lonesome Town--Lone.
some Town on the Subway"
And all the time, Love ana Ad.
venture were waiting Just around
The corner. The Dorrancos tell you
how he found them.
"A Flash OF Cold" Francis II.
Bethany, Doubleday. Page & Co.
This Is the story OF Nnncy's con.
1uost OF herself. There were In.
other conquests OF all
The personablc young men In
-iewsbury's fashionable set, for
Nancy was a primitive. passionate,
ovnb!e young barbarian to whom
excitement WINS tho
breath OF life. But David. the !
serious young physician who had |
abandoned the country club and tea
iances for the brotherhood house