Show I AUGUST MAGAZINES I OUTING OUTI GIn In the matter of general in interest Interest terest perhaps Vance Thompsons article upon The rhe French rench Peasant in the Fields Js the most notable of or the number It la Is profusely illustrated by b photographs There are a others however that are ex exceedingly well written and of or significant Interest Such are On the Road with the Players by b Charles Belmont Davis The First American Voyagers to toJa Ja Japan pan by Ralph D Paine Knocking About Capo Cape Cod by b Thomas Fleming Day John G stirring poem The Battle Cry Cn Is the kind of or verse that grips and thrills The issue has hall a welcome number of ot ar artistic artistic photographs s which give much pleas pleasure ure to the reading of or articles The practical articles of ot the number are The Country Home Water Vater Supply b bEben bEben Eben E Rexford Pedigree In the Bin Dog Do by b Todd Russell and of or the tle Pony by b W V Anson In The ViewPoint Mr Ir Caspar Whitney the editor has some pertinent things to say regarding the training of or American rUle rifle riflemen men He also touches with considerable ginger upon the attitude of ot Dr Eliot o or Harv rd toward athletics and he sums up tho years ears Intercollegiate athletic doings THE BOHEMIAN IIA There are twelve stories in the August Bohemian bright clever and snappy as usual In Lieu ol olEdith of Edith by b Kilbourne Cowles Is the Eltor of ot a substitution In love on a western ranch The Flitting of Princess Sonia by b Aubrey Aubre Lanston Is an ingenious story stor of or European secret service The Locked Bag is a L gripping yarn by b Adele Marie Shaw Other stories In the number are The Climax by James Francis Dwyer Dwer Bridge and Mrs Rossiter by W V Carey Care Dog Eat Dog a story of western life by b Charlton Law Lawrence Lawrence rence Edholm The Man in the Chute a rural comedy by James J Carroll The Price the Woman Paid a strong story of or th cotton mills of the south by Catherln Carr The Palace of P F s sure sure ure an unusual story by Clarissa Mackie In addition are the humorous features of twenty pales pages or so and a well written reliable Guide to the tho New ew Books The following Is the ta table table ble of contents of the August number The House of Rimmon Henry Van Dyke The Dowry Margaret Sherwood Back to the Farm arm poem Martha G D Blanch Bianchi The Tho Pretext Edith Wharton A Son of ot Dreams Caspar Day Da The Gasoline Prairie Prairie rie Schooner Walter alter E Peck An Olympic Olympic pic Victor chapters James B Con Connolly nolly noli Forty Minutes Late F Hopkinson Smith The Trail of or the Lonesome Pino chapters 5 John Fox jr The Here Heresies Heresies sies of Paul L Allen Harker The Point of View The Field of Art Frank Fow Fowler Fowler ler METROPOLITAN The August number of or the Metropolitan Magazine opens with witha a particularly interesting article Our Navys Great Task by John R Win chell Illustrated with splendid photo photographs graphs taken on shipboard John D DWells Dells Wells ells writes of The Scars of ot War ar In the Shenandoah comparing with rare charm and ind sympathy the minefields of ot forty fort rive fIe years ago to their condition today toda This article brings us closely in touch with the stirring and y events In 0 which our fathers rathers played a part The Southwest Evolution by Charles M 1 lIar Har Harvey vey ve is timely and valuable and explains how the desert is being b ing made to blossom to make room for American progress Voodoo Its Effect on the Negro Race by Marvin Dana takes up the history of or this really little known cult and its bearing on the negro problem Charles Frederick Holder has an interesting out article In A Leaper of or the Kuro There Is an unusually unusual good lot lotof of ot summer fiction Including The Rever Reer Reverend Reerend end Bong Do 11 by Henry Henn Milner Rideout By Faith Alone by b Helen Sterling Thomas For His Honor by b Florence Hardiman Miller 11 er Mi Michel MIchel chel by b F H Lancaster and Me Ie of or the Hoggar by b E P Me tour In tho matter of illustration the number os unusually beautiful and breezy breez WOMANS HOME HOIE COMPANION IO The August issue of Womans omans Home Compan CompanIon Ion on Is full of delightful stories Just the right sort of or midsummer reading Just Justo to o pick up Ip the magazine and look at the little Ittle Dutch boy bo and the windmill on the cover makes you feel cool and comfort comfortable comfortable able Then when you open the magazine I you come across enough stories and en I Illustrations to give you OU enjoy enjoyment enjoyment ment for the entire month Some of the authors are Temple Bailey Juliet Jullet Wil Wilbor bar bor Tompkins Marlon Hill Ruth Wilson Herrick May Ma Isabel Fisk Clinton Dan Dangerfield gerfield and Harvey J And when we tell you ou that these stories are Illustrated by b Orson Lowell Alice Bar Barer Barber Charlotte ber er Stephens and famous artists you ou will appreciate elate what a treat this summer magazine has ms for you ou AI Magazine for shows that Its publishers continue to o be alive alle to their opportunities for there theres Is s no falling off from the high standards standard which they the have set s t and have pursued so Indeed this number Is an advance The complete novel noel Is a new story by b Miriam called Flower o 0 Sage Sagebrush brush a tale talc with an no unusual plot rul fully worked up holding the interest without effort eUort and introducing some very ver attractive characters May new novel which tees ees Is running serially The Immortal Moment is continued In Its second in Instalment and tHere Is no risk taken in It In many respects equal It f not superior to the best she has hith hitherto erto done that Is to The Divine Fire Mary Ial H Vorse has another of or her In InImitable Imitable Jimmie stories which she calls One Day of Jimmie It Is as ns funny and entertaining as any n of its predecessors A very en remarkable story is one called The Protest by Angela Morgan who Is s a newcomer in the field of fiction but whose work ork In this tale talo would do credit credito to veteran o a t POPULAR The August Popular opens with a very ver timely and Interesting com lete novel noel of underground diplomacy Si ont Service by George ard rd Grim silent and mysterious are the workings of government secret agents All the de principal governments of the world have ave a department the workings of which are re almost wholly unknown to the general public This secret and silent service Is employed for purposes of or both protection and aggression Many of the greatest conflicts and disputes between modern modem nations have arisen from or been averted by the schemes of or this underground army A short time ago a conflict of arms was confidently predicted between the United States and Japan In Silent Service Mr Ir discloses the most Inter Interesting esting and Important portion of or the un underground history of or this crisis The complications that arise keep the reader I guessing as to the outcome of or events un until til the last page In addition to this complete novel noel the August number of the Popular Magazine contains big instalments of ot three serials and eleven interesting short stories alto altogether altogether gether pages of or strong stroll virile fiction YOUNGS YOU GSA A tawny tawn haired sculptress a fascinating vaudeville act actress actress ress a brilliant newspaper man a slangy cloak model an adventurous multimillionaire multimillionaire a demure little Puritan girl and an elegant clubman are among the char characters characters who make love and epigrams with equal celerity In A Astray in inthe Inthe the August Aug st number of Youngs Magazine Its a dashing tale of or decidedly modern modem flavor lavor In manners and morals and from the multimillionaire to the model they the theare are flesh Clesh and blood people If It a Man Fall by Frederick M 11 Smith measures unsparingly the standard of ot men and morals that women have made by their cowardly coward blindness In refusing to see what they know they the must condemn The Woman by b Mary Roberts Rinehart Is a strong love story ston wherein a dainty sheltered red society girl and a glowing beauty of the peo people people meet In a contrast that grips with keen pathos A gayer ga er little love tale is Fire and Tow by b Jean Ellis charming charmingly ly I vivid and ardent The Eclipse of Car Carlotta Carlotta lotta by Richard Harold Warner Varner Is a theatrical story stor and Time Walts Waltson on No Man Ian by b Aubrey Lanston is a de delicious delicious licious bit of oC satire The French translations are widely varied and cleyer cleer and andOn andOn On Broadway and Off and At the Sign of Eros are lull full of or pleasant smiles and hearty laughs TECHNICAL of con contents contents tents In the Sweat Seat of or the Planets Hen Henry Henry ry M 1 Hyde Hd Death In School Drinking Cups CuP Alvin Davidson M 1 S PhD Road less America In Transformation C F Carter Submarine Fishing Boat Dr Al Alfred Alfred fred Resource Becomes a Menace Roy Crandall Sending Pictures by Wireless Cecil In a Drowned Crater Rene Bache Three Hundred Billion Bees at York Work Roy Ro Crandall Boys and Girls and the Farm H G Hunting Railways Divide a New ew Kingdom William Thornton Finding the Worlds Radium P Harvey Hanc One Tree to Save a States Lumber Supply Harry H Dunn War Var Scouts Whisper From the Sky Sk C H Claudy Claud New ew System of Submarine Wire Wireless less A M 1 Hoffman Twenty other ar articles articles 10 illustrations POPULAR MECHANICS M is a faith faithful faithful ful chronicler of or everything newIn the theline theline line of mechanics and kindred subjects In the August number there are arti articles articles cles and illustrations every story stor written so you can understand It The mechanical features of ot the Republican national convention are described a con contributor contributor tells about a visit to Hudson Maxim where he saw some startling al although although though incredible things Mr Ir Maxim uses high explosives for cooking purposes as unconcernedly as if Ir It were wood or other fuel Wireless waves are now used for controlling electric trucks and an In Interesting article tells how It Is accomplished accomplished A big elephant at Cincinnati O 0 swallowed a valuable diamond ring and the Xray machine was used on the beast to locate the gem Jumbo like It very ver well but he finally submitted as the Illustration accompanying the article In Indicates Indicates Other features are A Portable Canning Machine for tor Farmers Falling With a Wrecked Airship The Grea Junk Industry How Stale Stage Sounds and Storms Are Made etc From so many I good things it is difficult to choose a few The Shop Notes otes department Is up to Its usual high standard and there are ten special articles for amateur mechanics SMITHS for August has an article of Interest to all women Interested in beau beautiful Irish laces The author writes of the new industry which has sprung up In Inthe Inthe the Ireland of today toda Beauty and sorrow soft green hills and children gentle speech and hop less eyes that Is the Ireland of ot the past But today there Is a new ne Ireland forsaking ing the futile political talk to learn busi business business ness habits developing Its Industrial re resources resources sources and showing the confident of or getting enough to live on Every child of Ireland is helping and among these the lace makers malters are bringing more than the widows mite A few years ears ago the Irish peasant women sat with hands empty of ot needle inside their tumbledown huts while their lay la in the sunshine outside or listlessly tilled their starvation five Ive acres What was the good of keeping up the place The landlord only raised the rent What was the use of making lace or 01 sprigging No o one would buy bu Today Toda because of or the new land acts and the co cooperative cooperative operative associations the husband works I hard on land that he will soon own wife and daughters make lace and crochet em embroider embroider broider altar coverings and weave cloth and baskets sure of or some kind of sale I PEOPLES These hot days one craves I Ia a T real good funny funn story like a cool drink with a straw In It The Peoples maga magazine magazine zine for August fills the bill completely It t Is fun full of or chuckles First and fore rore foremost most Is the yarn by Will Gage Carey Care The Fanatical Fans of Isle which Is a 1 story with a sUck stick in it that Is s It has the real unadulterated humor humorous ous flavor Two castaways In a canni cannibal cannibal bal isle coach the gentle na naIves natives Ives tives In the art of or our great national game and In order to slave bae themselves from rom becoming pate de wrecked sailor set get up a match the losing coach to sur surender surrender render ender himself gracefully to the stew it How those chocolate drops of or natives took ook to baseball and how the final score stood is well worth finding out Another entertaining tale is hi John and ind Cupid by Edward S In Inthis this his story Billings gives two rollicking young millionaires a course In appears In high society with s consequences and Is best man at a wed wedding wedding ding To top lop off if It there Is Js time om one ommay may take A Commercial Gentleman bi by Arthur M 1 Chase which shows that there then thenis is more than one way of ot getting a n hand handsome handsome some dinner and more than on way o or paying for It too The August number of or Peoples contains contain also an uncommonly good novel by Ldla F Peaster of or the on tin the west coast of or Florida Tn all there are pages of strong clever stores sta S some verse and humorous bits as well as pages of or the theatrical theatrical photographs attractively printer printed on fine white paper and accompanied b ba by bya a careful dramatic review Gunters magazine for Au August August gust Is noteworthy for tor its choice of or seasonable fiction Viewless Chains a complete novel by b Clinton Cllnton Dangerfield is a crackerjack The rho natural style o of narration Is In harmony with the vivid description and the clever plot The fhe hero to help out a friend who has saved hi hilife his life lite assumes that friends identity am antI all that goes with it with t e under understanding understanding standing that he shall give It up agala when asked This is Ig nard Hard especially when he hns won the others sweetheart an angot and got a lien Hen on his fortune after a duel in his behalf behal Theres no letup letur on the tho reader until he has reached Tho End Gunters Is made up of or ICO pages with stories and verse by Fannie Heaslip Lea LeaV W V R De Forest Elliott Walker Valker Roberi Hobert Aitken Howard Steel Williams Chauncey C Hotchkiss and a halt half dozen others Every story stor Is profusely Besides there is a brimming de department department of oC humor that chuckles for it itself itself self SMART SET SETA A novelette of unusual Interest opens the August number of ot th the Smart Set It Is called The Diary of or ar an Unconscious Eve and is written by G Vere Tyler a writer who probably has as keen an Insight into the feminine tem temperament temperament as any living author The sit situation situation on which the novel Is founded Is at once unique and daring and the end endIng endIng Ing is so absolutely unlooked for that thai It will surprise even the most clever read readers readers ers A more original piece of work has not appeared In this magazine Numerous well known writers are rep represented represented resented in the August Issue Particularly Interesting is Elizabeth Jordans story stor Her Letters Lillian Bell who neer falls fails to write a lively lIvel story stor contributes a bright ht sketch called Dinner for tor Six Beatrix Demarest Lloyd Llod In The Word oril and the Wise Vise 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