The Argosy, Vol. 82, No. 3 — page 199: what you’re looking at

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THE LOG-BOOK. . 573 and Berlin fifth, with Tokyo showing up in sixth place. The next American city with a showing is Philadelphia, ranking ninth in what I may refer to as the world’s series. New York has been used as a background for stories so often that some years since I tabooed it. Readers grew weary of the same Broadway and Bowery atmos- phere. Next month I am going to give you, in the book-length novel, a phase of New York life which I think will be new to most of you. The story is called “A SECRET OF THE BRONX” BY SEWARD W. HOPKINS author of “ A Mystery of Roscoe Conkling Park,” “ Too Terrible for War,” eé cetera, and the scene is laid in that big and rapidly growing section of New York City north. of the Harlem River. Boardman Fanning comes to visit his erstwhile college chum, Tom Kendry. Tom’s sister Joyce is, in the vernacular of the day, a “ peach,” but Fanning isn’t the only one who thinks so. One Batterson also has his eye on the young lady, and, being en- dowed with much of this world’s goods, including a yacht on the Sound, while Fan- ning is just starting out in the building business, the latter might well feel that all is up with his chances of winning the girl were it not for a strange warning that comes to him. Then things begin to happen thick and fast. Tom Kendry gets in trouble. His father mysteriously seems disinclined to help him out. Next grim tragedy stalks upon the scene, and the whole Bronx section is stirred up over the occurrence. Don’t miss this great story, published complete in thirty-three chapters in the July Arcosy. You will find it full of human interest. In the same issue will appear the first instalment of a new Three-Part Serial, “THE STAR OF ADVENTURE” BY PERLEY POORE SHEEHAN This is a yarn of the purely romantic type. One might imagine the scene laid in the colorful mists of the past. On the contrary, the action starts in the late spring of 1914. You can’t help liking Charles Knowlton. He is an altogether different sort of hero from any of those to whom you have been accustomed, but none the less agreeable company for that. The story begins with a fight and culminates in the big- gest one the world has ever seen. I wonder if you can guess what it is? The tale is told in the pleasing style for which Mr. Sheehan is famed, and will, I am sure, rank high among our 1916 features. Among next month’s short stories will be a striking tale of the city by Frank Condon, called ‘“‘ Marianna Goes to Sleep,” and “ What the War Did for Anne,” by Helen A. Holden, falls under the same heading as that used to describe one of the past season’s successful dramas, “a story of yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow.” “ Shorty’s Theory,” by Mollie Frank Ellis, is a stirring adventure narrative of the West, athrill with quick action and capped with a unique climax, while “ Heredity Takes the Count,” by Berton Braley, puts the small town on the griddle in great shape. HASN’T MISSED AN ARGOSY IN 28 YEARS A reader of THe Arcosy for twenty-eight years is some record. I am proud to welcome Mr. Howarth among the Log-Book contributors. He will be glad to know that I was chatting with pears to have forgotten the name of the writer. At any rate, you will note he does not mention it in his list of big favorites, and yet he places that particular story at the top of his list. ‘The Man With the 44 Chest ” was by E. J. Rath. Katharine Eggleston only the other day about a new story for our magazine. She is the author of “The Taming of Fierce Elton,” of which he seems to think so much. Oddly enough, he ap- Moylan, Pennsylvania. Having read your Log-Book for some time, I . feel that I am perfectly justified in writing my experience and conviction in regard to your won- derful and entertaining magazine. ‘Twenty-eight EOPMNICLOOC (C S (E@)