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for in the South than in the North. Albert Guérard agrees and Mr. Johnson doubtless would also. Doctor Guérard lived in the South for eleven years as a member of faculty of Rice Institute, Houston, Texas. Now he is at the University of California, Southern Branch. In looking back over his days in the South, his articles present the view-point of the Southerner sympathetically. At the same time, he shears away the prejudices and inherited ideas and tries to get at the root of the race question. "Southern Memories" in this number will be followed by "The Last Taboo" in June. Doctor Guérard suggests that we might announce his article in this fashion:

The Last Taboo.-A negro preacher introduced a white visitor to his congregation in these terms: "This here white man is a most wonderful man. He can do the undoable; he can think the unthinkable; he can unscrew the inscrutable." Albert Guérard wants to go one step farther; he wishes it to be said of him: He

can mention the unmentionable.

You have the May number before you, and we talked a good deal about it last month. Hence we are devoting most of our attention to the June number in this department. It is very convenient to have Albert Guérard and Mrs. Wharton to work the transition for us.

...Than are Dreamed of in Your Way of Reading

Mrs. Wharton's discourse on the novel will be concluded next month, and a fascinating work it is. To the average "reader for pleasure," such things as Mrs. Wharton suggests never occur. Her essays will open a new vista to many who have never devoted much thought to how a novel is written. We gain an insight into the mind of the person behind the book and find sources of pleasure never suspected before.

The four essays on the writing of fiction together with one on Marcel Proust, which appeared in the Yale Review, will be published in book form in the fall.

The Senator from Maryland on Federal Authority

Senator William Cabell Bruce's "Recent Strides of Federal Authority," in the June number, goes to the very bottom of the struggle between federal supervision and local self-government. The energetic and courageous Maryland senator distinguished himself for his fighting qualities and his independence in the last session of the Senate. He is author of a remark to the effect that if we continue to extend our paternalistic ideas of government, we should remove the figure of Liberty from the top of the Capitol and substitute for it a huge pap bottle. In this article Senator Bruce shows that his forceful and well-put conclusions are based

upon sound scholarship and a careful study of the facts. The senator from Maryland is an alumnus of the University of Virginia. While a student there he was awarded a riedal as the best debater and another for the best essay in competition with Woodrow Wilson and others. He is the author of several books, the latest of which is "John Randolph of Roanoke," a biography.

A Unique

Alfred F. Loomis contributes to the June number a timely article, "The San Blas Indians of Panama." This Indian nation of only thirty thousand souls, survivors of the Spanish Race at Our oppression which exterminated Back Door the Aztecs to the north of them and the Incas to the south of them, have for four centuries jealously protected their freedom. In late February of this year the Indians had an uprising in protest against the rule of Panama. Here is a people whose rights and independence we have the opportunity to protect. They are unique, and Mr. Loomis's account of his visit to them is a fine view of this race, which many of us did not know existed. Many photographs illustrate the article.

Perhaps you will think "Nowisky, Otherwise Volstead" is not entirely serious. Neither is it. But this " Nowisky, college president who prefers to Otherwise remain anonymous presents an- Volstead " other side to the professional athlete scandal than the one we usually see.

There is fiction galore in the June number. First of all, let us present Clarke Knowlton, a young Southern architect, author of "The Apol- A Brilliant lo d'Oro," published last year. Story His second story is "The Bridegroom," which to our mind shows a distinct increase in his 'power as a writer and is one of the best stories we have ever published: Eric was to be married to Mildred at high noon in the Church of the Ascension the next day. But to-night there came to him the girl of his dreams, Marcia. She was love; Mildred was respectability, competence, affection. The telephone bell enters into the complications.

Edward C. Venable contributes "Lines on the Portrait of a Lady," a strange story of a portrait-painter, a portrait, and a picture.

Arthur Hobson Quinn, who has appeared in these pages many times as a critic of the theatre, now comes as a writer of fiction. "The Last Appeal" A Reunion is a college reunion story which Story is particularly stirring just when we are turning our minds to the idea of going back to "the old place" in a few weeks.

"Apples of Gold or Pictures of Silver,"

by Lawrence S. Morris, the story of a man who wanted to raise apples but who found himself selling leather goods.

A Woman Who Does Not Want to Vote

As for the people in this May number and what they have to say-they, too, arouse our enthusiasm. But for the bulk of the evidence we send you back to the April number. Katharine Fullerton Gerould, who is off the reservation with regard to the woman and the ballot, is an essayist and fiction writer of note and the wife of Gordon Hall Gerould, of the English Department at Princeton University. She especially protests against the argument that she must vote in order to cancel that of her cook. And since we're in Princeton, we naturally meet Edward G. Spaulding next. "Why Men Disagree" in this number follows his able "The Walls of the Past" in April. This Princeton philosopher is in reality a product of the University of Vermont, class of 1894. He later studied at Columbia and at Bonn, Germany, where he got his Ph.D. He has been on the Princeton faculty since 1905. In 1918 he published "The New Rationalism." The question he discusses in this essay is one that offers many answers.

Why Do We Disagree?

Roland Young Returns

Roland Young has just returned to New York in "Beggar on Horseback." It opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 23. "The Audience Can Do No Wrong," with its sketches, shows the versatility of the man who has been entertaining audiences all over the country in that more than amusing play by Kaufman and Connelly. We don't know whether we shall be able to resist the desire to see it again. But then if we should forget to leave the cough at home or to park our sneezes outside, great would be our consternation.

Theodore Roosevelt Goes Fishing

By the time "Fishing in Wisconsin" sees the light of print, its author will already be on his way to other happy hunting-grounds. Theodore Roosevelt must have found that this trip into the wilds of La Follettedom just whetted his appetite for more, because early in April he and Kermit Roosevelt set out for the top of the world," journeying through upper India into and through the Himalayan region of southwest Asia. The expedition is for the purpose of making a complete collection of the animals and birds of the region explored, since only a few individual examples are in American museums.

Olive A. Colton has for many years interested herself in the human equation in industry. She is now treasurer of the Ohio Council on Women in In- Human dustry, trustee of the Consum- Cogs ers League, and president of the Toledo League of Women Voters. Her "They or We? A New Spirit in Industry," in this number, shows what a thinking and an active woman has perceived and done. It is worth the attention of every one.

"The Organization Complex in Our Colleges" is a great affliction to students and faculty alike. Ruth Steele Brooks is a graduate of the Uni- Organized versity of Indiana and the wife Chaos of Alfred Mansfield Brooks, head of the Fine Arts Department at Swarthmore, so she has seen it from both sides. Mrs. Brooks has contributed a number of articles to various magazines on phases of college life, all of which are marked by keen insight and good judgment.

Of the fictioneers in this number, about whom we related more or less in the April department, two are living and working in New York at present. Ruth Robinson Blodgett has already contributed two stories to SCRIBNER'S, one about a professor's wife and another about a New England family who kept the Mayflower anchored in the yard.

Emerson Low expects to depart for Europe before long. He and his wife belong to that fortunate group of folk who can pack up and depart for "The Man anywhere on a few hours' no- Who Had tice. His peripatetic nature was Been developed by a youthful stage Away" career with a travelling company, and was aided by two years with the American Field Service attached to the French army, 1917-1919, and a year travelling in out-of-the-way corners of Europe two years later.

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McCready Huston is a newspaper man from Pennsylvania, now located in Indiana. "Wrath" presents a new angle on the eternal triangle.

The June number seems to us just about 99 44/100 per cent. knockout. The assay shows no washouts at all. (The 56/100 is a concession to the value of understatement.)

And, since we're only the spectator around this shop, and not the editor, modesty can do nothing about our saying so.

William Lyon Phelps refers in this number to Augusta, Ga., as the birthplace of Stephen Vincent Benét. What he meant to say, he hurriedly telegraphs us, is that it was an early home of Mr. Benét, who is a child of Bethlehem, Pa.

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MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH A TEXAS
TWISTER

THE MOCKING-BIRDS. Poem

With a note by William Hamilton Hayne.

NOWISKY, OTHERWISE VOLSTEAD

THE LAST APPEAL-A Story

A SUICIDE. Poem

AS I LIKE IT

THE FIELD OF ART-A Review of the Art Season
of 1924-1925 in New York

Royal Cortissoz

THE FINANCIAL SITUATION-Changes in the Home and Foreign Position-Money Market Declines
in America, Rises in Europe-American Capital and Foreign Loans-New Turn of Events in England,
Germany, and France

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH SCRIBNERS AUTHORS
WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT-The Club Corner
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"Thundering in the Index Is No Favor to Anybody"

Albert Guérard, safe the of

WE are indebted to Alexander Woolcott faculty of the University of California, South

have always held. The rôle of the Thunderer has never appealed to us. We merely serve as a sort of index finger.

Captain John W. Thomason, Jr., is responsible for our device, for it was in a letter from Mr. Woollcott to the editor anent "Fix Bayonets!" the leading article of this number, that it occurred.

The dramatic critic, sometime enlisted man and member of the editorial council of The Stars and Stripes, discovered The Moved Captain Thomason through a letter the officer wrote regarding Writes.... "What Price Glory?" Woollcott read galley proofs of "Fix Bayonets!" and had this to say about it:

Critic

I think the story is magnificent and with the exception of "What Price Glory," I have run into nothing descriptive of the American soldier in the field which seemed to me so completely to recapture the smell and the flavor of the A. E. F.

I think this man writes magnificently and if, in the Sign Post piece I shall write for the June Vanity Fair, I express that feeling mildly, it will be in the conviction that he will be best served by some one merely pointing to his article, rather than by some one who shrieks his praises in advance. Thundering in the Index is no favor to anybody.

Perhaps there are those who will say that we are thundering by proxy. But let them read the article. Our little remarks will then be entirely forgotten-which is as it should be.

Robert W. Winston has viewed the law at the bar and from the bench. Agitation for and against free speech is probably more violent now than at any A Judge on Judges time since the war, and the finger of the law pointing at editors is even longer than Miss Harvey has graphically suggested above. Judge Winston's "How Free Is Free Speech?" is a distinct contribution to the subject. The judge is the author of "North Carolina, a Militant Mediocracy," described as the sole optimistic note in the second volume of that interesting compilation "These United States." He is at present an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina.

ern Branch, can with impunity put forward the result of eleven years of observation while living in the South, and in so doing “mention the unmentionable." That Jack-in-the-box won't be kept down. Doctor Guérard is French by birth and American by choice. He has become distinguished as one of the foremost liberal minds in the country.

That unique race, the San Blas Indians of Panama, has been achieving the front page frequently. First, they appear as the tribe from which the "white Indian" springs, and then they revolt against Panamanian rule, Alfred F. Loomis recalls a most pleasant and interesting sojourn among them, and makes a few pointed comments regarding the part the United States may play in the dispute.

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The New York Herald Tribune, The Art of Reading in an editorial on April 19, said: She sets forth her arguments so lucidly and so persuasively that we can see a perfect host of young writers profiting from her pages.

And, say we, "we can see a perfect host of young readers doing likewise." For there is an art in reading as well as in writing.

The fact that Clarke Knowlton is descended from Colonel Thomas Knowlton of Revolutionary fame has not deterred him from writing a thoroughly modern story in "The Bridegroom." We employ the index finger and say with assurance: "Here is a young man to watch."

There is always an interesting psychological element in the work of Edward C. Venable. "Lines on the Portrait of a Lady" has a Jamesian quality. Mr. Venable still tarries in Brittany, and, since he doesn't herald his movements widely,

the date of his expected return to Baltimore is unknown.

A Word Fitly Spoken

In "Apples of Gold or Pictures of Silver" Lawrence Morris has dramatized a situation well-nigh universal. Dreams which we thought safely. tucked away have a way of coming to the fore when the smell of spring is in the air.

Clement Wood, too, is a poet from the South.. The euphonious Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is his birthplace. He was once assistant city attorney of Birmingham, but then he migrated to New Jersey and became a schoolmaster. Since 1923 he has been devoting himself exclusively to writing and lecturing.

NEXT BILL Heredity-The Master Riddle of Science

by EDWARD M. EAST
Colleges and War

by GEORGE A. COE

author of "What Ails Our Youth?"

Youth and Peace

by OLIVER LA FARGE, Harvard '24 The Dead Vote of the South

by GERALD W. JOHNSON
Through the Mill of
Americanization

by STANISLAW A. GUTOWSKI Chasing Antelope on the Great

Mongolian Plateau

by WILLIAM DOUGLAS BURDEN
Lord of the Wilderness
by WALTER PRICHARD EATON
Fiction

Treed!

by EDWIN DIAL TORGERSON

The Professor and the Pink Lady

by FREDERICK WHITE Cap'n Quiller Listens In by TORREY FORD The Perfect Servant by ELEANOR STUART

College reunions are looming large just now. Arthur Hobson Quinn's "The Last Appeal" presents in the form of fiction an idea suggested by his own thirtieth reunion, last year. Dean Quinn is University of Pennsylvania, '94.

We are pleased to be able to present a rediscovered poem of Paul Hamilton Hayne, The note by his son relates the circumstances surrounding the publication of one of the last works of a favorite poet of the South.

Arthur Guiterman is one of the town's best-known poets. He is a frequent contributor of ballad and lyric verse to this and other periodicals. His rhymed reviews in Life are among the brightest lights of that highly illuminated magazine.

A valued subscriber writes:

Through your magazine I have "discovered' Royal Cortissoz and what a very delightful person he is. I can't begin to say how much I enjoy his books and articles. It's a new world.

At the moment, William Lyon Phelps, his tanned countenance wearing the Phelpsian smile and his stalwart frame adorned by a very comme il faut spring sport suit, is occupying the editor's big chair. En route to New Haven, he stopped in to look over the proofs of the July "As I Like It."

Personal: To All Readers Who A-Vacationing Go

Wherever in these United States you go for your summer va

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