. ''TOSiS,' "! . V ti EVENING PUBLIC LBP&ER-PHIfrAflELPjPA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBEB 27, 1921 Once in a while we understand friend or family through the sharp light of a :amili going te a woman's magazine! 7C THEN one woman walked, with a clear conscience, V V out of the front deer, and actually left a geed husband and three babies in order te find her own soul countless husbands sat up bewildered and gave thought Wives, mothers, daughters quivered then thrilled a.0 the new understanding of thei?ewn possibilities. A piece of fiction! Nera's action in Ibsen's "Dell's Heuse" had shaken violently men's and women's comfort able assumptions. Affected profoundly the thoughts and actions of an entire generation. When Brieux flung full in the face of the world his "Dam aged Goods," tens of millions of women stared wide into each ethers' eyes. When Shaw flashed his "Getting Married" upon a scandalized society, he clarified for thousands of men and women, married or about te be married, their own ideas and attitudes regarding marriage. De magazines realize the power of fiction which illumi nates se startlingly our deepest problems? Have any of them guessed the strength of its following ? Women the demanders of vigorous fiction YEARS age, all women's magazines were blandly offer ing their readers mere "stories" as a complement te the mere helpful household and needlework pages. Then Pictorial Review boldly stepped out of the ranks. It was the first te print a novel net written down te a sup posedly immature public. A novel stripped of sentimentality. Free of compromise with the conventional requirements. Frem that day en, Pictorial Review has had an assured following:, en account of the character of its fiction. A steady, continually increasing number of women have learned te leek te Pictorial Review for fiction that actually vivifies. It is the vindication of Pictorial Review's belief that women are the most discriminating readers of fiction. Four novels new being widely discussed -were first printed in Pictorial Review DURING the past year, Pictorial Review gave te fts readers the first opportunity te read four of the season's best sellers and mnch discussed novels. Every one of them had a special meaning. Edith Wharten's Age of Innocence" fe being read Tjy-nrmJens'ftjr tte-aharp contrast between the insincerities and cramping restrictions of the Generation that preceded us and the sincerities and freedom of our own day. Beeth Tarkingten's "Alice Adams" draws -reader after reanertrita pages for hs pitiless picture of the heart of a girl such as we are constantly meeting. Jeseph C Lincoln's "Galusha the Magnificent," whlmsicalarjdheartwwaxuiliia, and Kathleen Norris's Beloved Weman," a searching study effamfly indulgences, touched widely differing points of response. In the current issue, Cetra Harris's Eyes of Leve' throws light en perplexities that beset youngjceuplea-oftodajR. TN short stories, the field in which Amerlcanwriters?excel, Pictorial Review has en three separate occasions been accorded first rank among popular magazines. On the newsstands today is the October issue, in which eight masters of the short story, whose rank is high onbeth-sides of the Atlantic, light up the life that is around us. Each of these stories deals vividly with3nrewnviBza.. tien, our dreams, or the situations we have actually tevmeet Such fiction wins an assured and loyal following. Temeet its demand Pictorial Review is printing 2,100,000 copies of its October issue. Hugh Walpole Wilbur Daniel Steele Stacy Aumenier Susan Glaspell Leuis Jeseph Vance Holworthy Hall Nina Wilcox Putnam May Sinclair Frances Noyes Hart Eliner Mordaunt Melville Davisson Pest Clarence Budington Kelland Ethel Watts Mumford Mary Svnen Richard Washburn Child Wallace Irwin Irvin S: Cobb Ellis Parker Butler Maxwell Struthers Burt Samuel Hepkins Adams Jeannette Marks Achmed Abdullah Edith Barnard Delane Eleaner Hauowen Abbett Mary Cholmendelcy are among the short story wntera of first rank whose sincerity and vividness enrich thejpages of Pictorial Review, ehmmlv jmvqvBmhiw jmk. msHH k bh VBW f (HHlfflRHw m yV 2,100,000 COPIES OFJIHE OCTOBER ISSUE HAVE BEEN PRINTED is e ia ) ' Ul VJ t L .M 4
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