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ARGOSY-ALLSTORY WW te BB K.-S VoL. CL SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1923 NUMBER 5 WIZARDRY OF KENNETH PERKINS This gifted writer of vivid action stories scores another success with QUEEN OF THE NIGHT, the first installment of which we present in this issue of the Argosy-Allstory Weekly.—Here is a gorgeous drama flashing across the dark sky of monotony to thrill the reader’s imagination as if his physical eye had viewed a new comet in the starry heavens.—Breath-taking are the happenings between dusk and dawn. ENNETH PERKINS is a wizard in character delineation, natural dialogue and K logical situations. His writing always has the savor of verisimilitude and the charm of proportion. | Only deep concentration in his art can make an author convincing, and here is one whose tales are rich with authenticity. When he describes the actions of a: heroine or a hero they do more than gesture like puppets. They truly exist. The girl radiates beauty. The man is inspiring. This faculty of making his characters step out of the written page to live and breathe and act for the reader has made notable all of Mr. Perkins’s stories. Arid the Arcosy-ALLSTOoRY WEEKLY has been the exclusive medium in presenting his work to a discriminating public interested in fiction of the first class. First came THE BULL-DOGGER, appearing in the issues of November 5 to November 26, 1921. In this swift and colorful Western tale Joe Winborne, cow- puncher, faces Dan McGraw, Arizona cattle king, in the primal conflict of man against man for the possession of a woman. She is Posey Donnel, daughter of the rancher for whom Winborne is foreman. Girl-like, Posey at first did not know her own mind, but when McGraw stages a bull-dogging contest, where his own bull gores to death a Mexican Indian vaguero, she realizes the innate savagery of the cattle king. Win- borne becomes the hero of the rodeo when he tackles the raging animal and by strength and skill brings it plunging to the dust. After that, Posey and Joe see that anything separating them is an obstacle to happiness and must be overleaped. Next was THE BLOOD-CALL, January 14 to February 4, 1922. ‘This, too, is a stirring, galloping romance of the West. Jim Quade is taught by his grand- mother, Bess Quade, to become a skillful, two-fisted fighter and an expert with the six-gun. He now has reached maturity, and the aged woman informs him that his brother long ago had been murdered by Smoo Taurog, cattle-rustler, bad man, killer. Young Quade follows the blood-call of vengeance inte the enemy’s territory. Here he fulfills the prayer of his warlike granddame, outgaming and overcoming the bandit in the very jaws of death. Jim’s reward is more than the satisfaction of a vendetta. Beautiful Kirbie, foster daughter of the killer, loses her heart to him, The third novel was THE FEAR-SWAY, April 29 to May 27, 1922. Again 1A 641 Gomichdooks