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.

Alfred F. Loomis contributes to the June number a timely article, "The San Blas Indians of Panama." This Indian nation of only thirty thousand A Unique 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,"

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.

ested 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 of travelling in out-of-the-way corners of Europe two years later.

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.