The Argosy, Vol. 90 No. 1 — page 195: what you’re looking at

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he Log=pfook CBy the \/ Editor HAPPY New Year to you all! As 1918 dawns, all over the world men and A women are looking forward into its misty depths, wondering what of good or ill it may bring. With more nations concerned in war than were ever at the grim game at one time before, speculation as to the future has a keener edge put on it. Whatever comes, it behooves us all to remember what we are fighting for. and to realize that the only peace worth having is that which insures that this greatest of all the wars the world has ever seen shall also be the last. The announcement of a big, vital railroad serial in which a great-hearted man matches resources of mind, muscle, and money against a traitorous gang of public despoilers will, I am sure, be welcome news to all of you. “ODDS AND THE MAN” BY VARICK VANARDY in seven parts, the first of which will appear next week, is the name of this virile story of America’s last frontier—the Canadian Northwest. Up to that frost-locked dominion of desolation, resources that stagger the imagination await the coming of master men who will unlock nature’s treasure-trove with the magic key of railroad transportation. It is a land of big men and big deeds. Dan Randall went there to forget, and remained to fight the greatest battle of his life. Joyce Maitland, a sweet and winsome American girl, went there for rec- reation, and remained for a more vital reason. The two met—and their meeting inspired a great civilization-molding enterprise and a still greater love. “'TESSIE OF RAINBOW GLEN” BY SEWARD W. HOPKINS is the title of our complete novel for next week. You all know Mr. Hopkins’s happy talent for mingling humor with the strongest and most tense situations, and in this sterling drama of the Golden West we believe he has excelled himself. The main character is a young Easterner who, while peacefully riding his pony across the prairie- stretches of a Western county, suddenly stumbled upon the most amazing sight he had ever beheld. How that sight changed the course of his career, and why he de- cided to remain in the West, makes a novel that will please even the reader who does not care for ordinary Western stories. You wouldn’t think that old Demosthenes, dead and gone centuries ago, could cut much figure in the love affair of a department-store clerk now, would you? In 189 comicbooks CO