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PLEASE LOOK AGAIN at this month's cover. It deserves a second glance. We admit that we have had cover designs which were evolved entirely from the artist's inner consciousness like the great Teutonic camel. We suspect that you have pre-judged this picture of a military aeroplane above the Gatun locks to be one of that class. You are not to blame for the thought, for the unusual character of the picture would suggest it to the intelligent observer. But there is more reality to this painting than you think. In the first place, the aeroplane is sketched from life—from a Christofferson flying-boat of the type purchased by the Japanese government, by the way. Furthermore, the men in the boat are drawn from life—one of them is Christofferson himself, the man who holds the American record for distance flown in one day, and the other is Riley E. Scott, the man who won all prizes for bomb-dropping in competition with the crack military aviators of France, under the auspices of the French army. And finally, the landscape below is drawn directly from an unpublished photograph from the air during the historic flight across the Isthmus made by Robert.G. Fowler, the only such flight yet made, and followed by President Wilson's order forbidding any repetition. Now, you see, this April cover is the Real Thing, after all!

has arranged with Charles G. D. Roberts and Paul Bransom to resume the great love story of Gröm and A-ya later in the year.

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COVER DESIGN: A Dove of War W. H. BULL and LOUIS J. ROGERS

A Doorway in the City of Color Title page

From a photograph colored under the direction of Jules Guerin, Chief of Color, Panama-Pacific International Exposition Decoration by Louis J. Rogers

Italian Fishers on San Francisco Bay Frontispiece

Idaho and the Green Snake WALTER V. WOEHLKE

Illustrating “Autobirds of Passage”.

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The story of men who used the Carey Act to charm their serpentine river Illustrated in colors

Can the Panama Canal be Destroyed from the Air? RILEY E. SCOTT

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A question by an expert at dropping bombshells accurately from a superior point of view

The Great Aztec Wonder

PETER B. KYNE

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Wherein Mr. McGuffey attempts a flight in high finance Illustrated by Louis J. Rogers

One Year Before

WILLIAM R. LIGHTON

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At the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Illustrated by official photographs taken in February

The Cause

WILL ROBINSON

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A story of the Mexican patriots Illustrated by Arthur Cahill

The Man Who Won. .

The Siege. Fifth instalment of the story v. 5 struggle for the possession of land Illustrated from drawings made in Wyoming by Arthur Cahill

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