utilized for important work. For, although Mr. Bradford has been hampered by ill health for a great portion of his life, he has developed that skill in biography which has caused his portraits to be termed "psychographs." This glimpse of the soul of Edwin Booth presents a figure which lives in American history. It has become a little dim with age. Mr. Bradford has taken it and brushed it up and presented to us here a living man.

People are still apologizing for jazz and European musicians are frantic because American jazz orchestras are Jazzdriving them out of business Our Own in their own bailiwick. William J. Henderson cuts down under all the talk about "high art" and "the classics" and shows that jazz is not a poor thing but is decidedly our own. And this is from a man who graduated from Princeton in 1876, so it is none of your modern youth movement to overturn old idols.

Perhaps the fact that Mr. Henderson went to college kept him from being a jazz artist himself, if Henry Rood's theory about "College and the Artist" holds true. Yet we should call Mr. Henderson an artist in his line. Mr. Rood was the man who received the wireless message from Admiral Peary announcing his discovery of the North Pole, and he was the first American to board Peary's ship when it returned from its momentous voyage. After reading his article, a number of college presidents will want to send Mr. Rood to the North Pole or to the region having the opposite extreme of temperature. There's much to be said for Mr. Rood's thesis, even if you don't agree with his list of first and second rate artists of the past century. Colleges are deadening unless one has the luck or the perception to realize it the day one enters.

With all this propaganda for preparedness going on about us, with admirals and navy secretaries and generals Pacifists howling about the enemies and Jingos without our gates, Thomas Boyd's stories have an added significance. It is refreshing to see that President Coolidge, according to newspaper reports, has put the quietus on the jingos. About a year and a half ago the New York

Thomas Boyd's book, "Through the Wheat," praiseworthy, deplored the fact that Mr. Boyd "gives hardly a hint of realizing that the war had an object of sufficient importance to make the heavy price worth paying." We wonder what the author of the editorial thinks about it now.

Speaking of contrasts, as we have been all through these columns, Kyle Crichton, author of "For Sale: Med Show," was born in the now deserted mining village of Peale, Pa., and is at present boosting Albuquerque, N. M., as advertising agent for the Chamber of Commerce.

Mary Gordon found her contrasts on the open road, and what a cross-section of life she saw in those few eventful days! It makes one realize how much there is to see for those who have eyes. "Wayfarers —All” should add much to the joy of the next tour that you take.

And then look at our contrasting poets. Margaret Sherwood is known wherever two or three Wellesley stuThe Poets dents gather together. Marian Storm, the last we heard, was writing for the New York Evening Post, but that was before the entrance of Curtis. We dare say she is at her journalism yet. Edward Bok has just published a new book, "Twice Thirty." He is known to millions of women as the former editor of The Ladies' Home Journal. After giving a peace prize and being investigated by an ungrateful Senate, he turned to poetry, of which "The Glory of All England" is an example.

William Lyon Phelps unfortunately had to cancel the remainder of his trip abroad due to ill health, and, doubtless, Miami will now get some free publicity from his pen. We are glad that the doctor got to Paris before illness overtook him, for his comments are as sprightly as that lively city. And Royal Cortissoz might almost be in Paris too, judging from his discussion of Gavarni, who so fully expresses the spirit of Paris itself. The manifesto of the Vanity Fair of that day has many features that modern magazine advertising lacks.

America-it is a big subject, and one worth a good deal of thought. This number of the Magazine contains three excellent notes on the American panorama. The fact led us to browse through recent numbers of the Magazine, with the result that we found a lot of fascinating material which breathes the spirit of various phases of American life. No topic could be more worthy of investigation. For true patriotism, as distinguished from chauvinism and jingoism, depends upon a knowledge of our country and a feeling for its spirit. This cannot be gained by looking up a lot of statistics on the growth of population and industry, nor can it be gained by the statistical method at all. It is to be caught from the minds of people who have thought about it, and who interpret it.

One of the pressing questions of the hour is that of the foreign-born within our gates and those clamoring for admission without the gates.

STANISLAW GUTOWSKI'S "AN IMMIGRANT AT THE CROSSROADS," in this number, and his second article, which is to appear soon, on the proper means of Americanization from an immigrant's point of view, are important additions to the work which SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE has been carrying on in helping various parts of our population understand each other. MICHAEL PUPIN, who began as a Serbian peasant boy, and is now one of America's most distinguished scientists, published his "FROM IMMIGRANT TO INVENTOR" in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, beginning in the September, 1922, number and running through July, 1923. story was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography. Roy W. GARIS'S "HOW THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW WORKS," in the August, 1924, number, tells specifically what the law will accomplish. The act of Congress was based upon a previous article of Mr. Garis's, which appeared in the September, 1922, number, and was entitled "THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM-A PRACTICAL SOLUTION."

This

Other phases of the American scene, and the numbers where material on them can be found,

are:

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

"Radicalism in the United States," by Edwin W. Hullinger, Russian correspondent for the United Press, ejected by the Bolsheviki (October, 1924).

"The President," by Edward W. Bok (January, 1925).

"What's the Matter With Congress?" by Charles Browne, Member of Congress (September, 1924).

"Kids and Campaigns," by Walter L. Whittlesey (November, 1924). A lighter touch by a member of the Princeton faculty.

"Letters of a Bourgeois Father to His Bolshevik Son," by Edwin D. Torgerson (January, 1925). The American tries to understand his son. See also The Club Corner for January.

AMERICAN EDUCATION

"Idealism in Education," by Frederick E. Bolton (January, 1925).

"College and the Artist," by Henry Rood (this number).

"Provincial Universities of France," by Paul van Dyke, comparing the attitude of the French and the American student (January, 1925). Alice K. Hatch (February, 1924). "The Every-Day Child and His Library," by

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Winston (December, 1924). "A Freshman Again at Sixty," by Robert W.

"Reflections of a Settlement Worker," by Gaylord S. White (December, 1924).

Literature. "My Memories of the Early Eighties," by James L. Ford (December, 1924), and "Lilies and Languors" (January, 1924) and "Temperance Novels" (November, 1924), by

Edmund Lester Pearson.

Oratory.—“Unfettered Eagles" (July, 1924), by Edmund Lester Pearson.

THE CHANGING AMERICA The Home.-"The Field of Art," by Royal Cortissoz (April, 1924).

The Newspaper.-"The Changing Country Press," by Charles Moreau Harger (April, 1924). Occupation.—"Our Changing Agriculture," by Edward M. East (March, 1924).

The West.-Will James's articles in March, April, August, and December, 1923, and February, April, and June, 1924.

The Theatre.-"Rip Van Winkle Goes to the Play," by Brander Matthews (November, 1924).

AMERICA NOW

The West.-"The West as I Saw Her," by Shaw Desmond (March, 1924).

Moving Pictures.-"Bigoted and Bettered Pictures," by William C. de Mille (September, 1924).

Music. "Ragtime, Jazz, and High Art," by William J. Henderson (this number).

People. "Our Modern Old People," by Virginia Terhune Van de Water (May, 1924).

The Theatre.-"New Notes and Old in the Drama," by Arthur Hobson Quinn (July, 1924), and "Uncle Sam-Exporter of Plays," by Brander Matthews (February, 1924).

utilized for important work. For, although Mr. Bradford has been hampered by ill health for a great portion of his life, he has developed that skill in biography which has caused his portraits to be termed "psychographs." This glimpse of the soul of Edwin Booth presents a figure which lives in American history. It has become a little dim with age. Mr. Bradford has taken it and brushed it up and presented to us here a living man.

People are still apologizing for jazz and European musicians are frantic because American jazz orchestras are Jazzdriving them out of business Our Own in their own bailiwick. William J. Henderson cuts down under all the talk about "high art" and "the classics" and shows that jazz is not a poor thing but is decidedly our own. And this is from a man who graduated from Princeton in 1876, so it is none of your modern youth movement to overturn old idols.

Perhaps the fact that Mr. Henderson went to college kept him from being a jazz artist himself, if Henry Rood's theory about "College and the Artist" holds true. Yet we should call Mr. Henderson an artist in his line. Mr. Rood was the man who received the wireless message from Admiral Peary announcing his discovery of the North Pole, and he was the first American to board Peary's ship when it returned from its momentous voyage. After reading his article, a number of college presidents will want to send Mr. Rood to the North Pole or to the region having the opposite extreme of temperature. There's much to be said for Mr. Rood's thesis, even if you don't agree Iwith his list of first and second rate artists of the past century. Colleges are deadening unless one has the luck or the perception to realize it the day one enters.

With all this propaganda for prepared ness going on about us, with admirals and navy secretaries and generals Pacifists howling about the enemies and Jingos without our gates, Thomas Boyd's stories have an added significance. It is refreshing to see that President Coolidge, according to newspaper reports, has put the quietus on the jingos. About a year and a half ago the New York

Thomas Boyd's book, "Through the Wheat," praiseworthy, deplored the fact that Mr. Boyd "gives hardly a hint of realizing that the war had an object of sufficient importance to make the heavy price worth paying." We wonder what the author of the editorial thinks about it now.

Speaking of contrasts, as we have been all through these columns, Kyle Crichton, author of "For Sale: Med Show," was born in the now deserted mining village of Peale, Pa., and is at present boosting Albuquerque, N. M., as advertising agent for the Chamber of Commerce.

Mary Gordon found her contrasts on the open road, and what a cross-section of life she saw in those few eventful days! It makes one realize how much there is to see for those who have eyes. "Wayfarers -All" should add much to the joy of the next tour that you take.

The Poets

And then look at our contrasting poets. Margaret Sherwood is known wherever two or three Wellesley students gather together. Marian Storm, the last we heard, was writing for the New York Evening Post, but that was before the entrance of Curtis. We dare say she is at her journalism yet. Edward Bok has just published a new book, "Twice Thirty." He is known to millions of women as the former editor of The Ladies' Home Journal. After giving a peace prize and being investigated by an ungrateful Senate, he turned to poetry, of which "The Glory of All England" is an example.

William Lyon Phelps unfortunately had to cancel the remainder of his trip abroad due to ill health, and, doubtless, Miami will now get some free publicity from his pen. We are glad that the doctor got to Paris before illness overtook him, for his comments are as sprightly as that lively city. And Royal Cortissoz might almost be in Paris too, judging from his discussion of Gavarni, who so fully expresses the spirit of Paris itself. The manifesto of the Vanity Fair of that day has many features that modern magazine advertising lacks.

America-it is a big subject, and one worth a good deal of thought. This number of the Magazine contains three excellent notes on the American panorama. The fact led us to browse through recent numbers of the Magazine, with the result that we found a lot of fascinating material which breathes the spirit of various phases of American life. No topic could be more worthy of investigation. For true patriotism, as distinguished from chauvinism and jingoism, depends upon a knowledge of our country and a feeling for its spirit. This cannot be gained by looking up a lot of statistics on the growth of population and industry, nor can it be gained by the statistical method at all. It is to be caught from the minds of people who have thought about it, and who interpret it.

One of the pressing questions of the hour is that of the foreign-born within our gates and those clamoring for admission without the gates.

STANISLAW GUTOWSKI'S "AN IMMIGRANT AT THE CROSSROADS," in this number, and his second article, which is to appear soon, on the proper means of Americanization from an immigrant's point of view, are important additions to the work which SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE has been carrying on in helping various parts of our population understand each other. MICHAEL PUPIN, who began as a Serbian peasant boy, and is now one of America's most distinguished scientists, published his "FROM IMMIGRANT TO INVENTOR" in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, beginning in the September, 1922, number and running through July, 1923. story was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography. Roy W. GARIS'S "HOW THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW WORKS," in the August, 1924, number, tells specifically what the law will accomplish. The act of Congress was based upon a previous article of Mr. Garis's, which appeared in the September, 1922, number, and was entitled "THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM-A PRACTICAL SOLUTION."

This

Other phases of the American scene, and the numbers where material on them can be found,

are:

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

"Radicalism in the United States," by Edwin W. Hullinger, Russian correspondent for the United Press, ejected by the Bolsheviki (October, 1924).

"The President," by Edward W. Bok (January, 1925).

"What's the Matter With Congress?" by Charles Browne, Member of Congress (September, 1924).

"Kids and Campaigns," by Walter L. Whittlesey (November, 1924). A lighter touch by a member of the Princeton faculty.

"Letters of a Bourgeois Father to His Bolshevik Son," by Edwin D. Torgerson (January, 1925). The American tries to understand his son. See also The Club Corner for January.

AMERICAN EDUCATION

"Idealism in Education," by Frederick E. Bolton (January, 1925).

"College and the Artist," by Henry Rood (this number).

"Provincial Universities of France," by Paul van Dyke, comparing the attitude of the French and the American student (January, 1925). Alice K. Hatch (February, 1924). "The Every-Day Child and His Library," by

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Winston (December, 1924). "A Freshman Again at Sixty," by Robert W.

"Reflections of a Settlement Worker," by Gaylord S. White (December, 1924).

Literature. "My Memories of the Early Eighties," by James L. Ford (December, 1924), and "Lilies and Languors" (January, 1924) and "Temperance Novels" (November, 1924), by Edmund Lester Pearson.

Oratory.—“Unfettered Eagles" (July, 1924), by Edmund Lester Pearson.

THE CHANGING AMERICA The Home.-"The Field of Art," by Royal Cortissoz (April, 1924).

The Newspaper.-"The Changing Country Press," by Charles Moreau Harger (April, 1924). Occupation.-"Our Changing Agriculture," by Edward M. East (March, 1924).

The West.-Will James's articles in March, April, August, and December, 1923, and February, April, and June, 1924.

The Theatre.-"Rip Van Winkle Goes to the Play," by Brander Matthews (November, 1924).

AMERICA NOW

The West.-"The West as I Saw Her," by Shaw Desmond (March, 1924).

Moving Pictures.-"Bigoted and Bettered Pictures," by William C. deMille (September, 1924).

Music.-"Ragtime, Jazz, and High Art," by William J. Henderson (this number).

People.-"Our Modern Old People," by Virginia Terhune Van de Water (May, 1924).

The Theatre.-"New Notes and Old in the Drama," by Arthur Hobson Quinn (July, 1924), and "Uncle Sam-Exporter of Plays," by Brander Matthews (February, 1924).

You've had a view of the colorful way in which John Hays Hammond writes. In the March number of SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE he continues "Strong Men of the Wild West" with tales of Black Bart, Wyatt Earp, and others of their ilk.

We see the doughty Siringo again and get glimpses of Dawson saloons and Transvaal diamond-mines.

Combining his experiences during the time he was with Cecil Rhodes in Africa and a mining engineer in our own West, Mr. Hammond draws from them some valuable ideas concerning law, one of which is that we are essentially a lawdefying people.

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Gerald W. Johnson, one of the South's militant editors, contributes "The Battling South," in which he points out that the region which went into shadow in 1865 does not know how to utilize the limelight.

There is a battle going on in the South. It is not brilliant or spectacular. Hence it requires finer courage to endure the strife.

Gerald Johnson is a man worth knowing. The real South is worth knowing about.

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Struthers Burt finds "The Epic Note" in modern life.

"We live in as gallant, desperate, gorgeous, and uncomfortable age as the world has ever seen," says this young man, who is ambidextrous enough to write an excellent novel of an eastern drawing-room, a treatise on dudewrangling, and this thoughtful essay.

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George Sarton's essay "Transparency" is an excursion into human nature. He points out that the reason we find people in themselves not a subject for enthusiasm may not be what we think it is. "The surface of the sea seems quite

dark when you are very near to it, but if you will climb into the crow's-nest, you will see how clear the water is; and the higher you go the deeper you see.”

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Mrs. Jack Gardner was unique in American life. Her gift to the public of her wonderful collection of art treasures at Fenway Court, which will soon be opened, brings her even more into the realm of popular interest. Elizabeth Ward Perkins, who knew Mrs. Gardner for many years, contributes an intimate sketch of this remarkable woman.

Followers of William Lyon Phelps, of course, know of the Asolo Club. Sarah Redington is one of the charter members, and in a sprightly paper she tells how she went to discover Browning's Asolo and found her own. The town, as the resting-place of Duse, will now be more of a shrine than ever.

Albert Guérard finds France's black army not such a dark outlook. He calls his observations upon it "The Black Army of France-The Dark Cloud with a Silver Lining."

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One of the stories which the March breezes will waft into our midst at this time will be "Responsibility," by Thomas Boyd.

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There will be several other pieces of fiction produced by the young writers whose names are just beginning to shine in the literary world.

And, as always, short, provocative essays, good verse, and many illustrations.

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March enters leonine and exits lambesque. But SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE comes in like a good magazine and doesn't deteriorate.