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 glad to accept it, not as what we wish for, but as what they would have us see. The curtain is lifted, but the scenes are set to shut off most of the stage. Bismarck, on the other hand, gives us an unre-

served sweep of vision, a reckless thoroughness of exposure, which seems to negative all concealment." Mary E. Wilkins has given us, in "The Love of Parson Lord" a story so sweet and touching that, coming from her pen, it is a surprise. For once she has made the New England character loveable in spite of its hardness and coldness.

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The Carlyles in Scotland. ..John Patrick Jonathan and John. .Charles D. Roberts On a Boy's First Reading of "Henry

V." S. Weir Mitchell

Via Crusis F. Marion Crawford

Uncle Still's Famous Weather Pre- diction Ruth McBnery Stuart

Alexander the Great

Benjamin Ide Wheeler

The Many-Sided Franklin

Paul Leicester Ford

The Darkened Day. .John Vance Cheney Carlyle's Dramatic Portrayal of Char- acter Florence Hotchkiss

His Wife Mrs. Poultney Bigelow

The Sinking of the Merrimac

Lieutenant Hobson

An American in Madrid During the

War Edmund Kelly

"You Taught Me Memory"

Curtis Hidden Page

Advantages of the Nicaragua Canal.. Capt. A. S. Crownenshield, U. S. N.

The Limerick Tigers

Harry Stillwell Edwards

Ruth McEnery Stuart's negro stories are always enjoyable. She understands her subject and her characters are real. "Uncle Still's Famous Weather Predic- tion" is quite as good as anything she has produced. "The Darkened Day," by John Vance Cheney, strikes again that new note that has of late appeared in his verse, the tender, half-sadness that is like the influence of a sunny October after- noon — vaguely, deliciously felt, but not understood. Mrs. Poultney Bigelow's little story points a moral with a ven- geance, and the reader's sympathies are all with "The Wife." "The Limerick Tigers" is rollicking with fun, though probably to the "Tigers" themselves their experiences appear to verge upon tragedy. There is something peculiar apparent at times in Lieutenant Hob- son's literary style in his account of "The Sinking of the Merrimac," but it is good reading nevertheless, and it is well that it was written. "Via Crusis" is not alto- gether equal to the prior work of the au- thor. Marion Crawford is happier in a summer latitude. He is not so much, or so delightfully at home in England as beneath the warm blue skies of Italy. However in this number the scene shifts to the south, and Mr. Crawford is get- ting back into his semi-native environ- ment.

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Our Relations With the Far East. .

Charles Denby

An Unromantic Romance. .A. J. Gillette The Advance of American Dramatic

Art Clement Scott

A Spanish Painter in America

Lena Cooper

The King's Mirror Anthony Hope

The Point of View. . . .Walter L. Hawley Luxurious Bachelordom. .James L. Ford The Garden of Swords.. Max Pemberton "From the Depths of Some Divine

Despair" Tom Hall

The Home of Jefferson. Maud H. Peterson Should Fortune Come

Theodosia P. Garrison

Swallow H. Rider Haggard

Afloat Grace H. Boutelle

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Frank A. Munsey

The most interesting thing in Mun- sey's this month is the beginning of An-