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OCTOBER 1916

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VIA V I T T O R I O E M A N U E L E , ALASSIO . Drawing by Thornton Oakley, to accompany " Alassio, : reproduced in color. A M E M O R Y OF ALASSIO Illustrations by Thornton Oakley, in color and black and white. T H E RESERVIST. A Story . . Illustrations by E. L. Blumenschein.

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C L I M B I N G T H E GIANT'S TOOTH.—A " F I R S T CLASS" CLIMB IN T H E ALPS . . . . Illustrations from photographs by the Author.

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GUESTS F R O M T H E D E S E R T . Illustrations by Charles Huard. T H E D E S E R T E D NEST.

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T H E P O I N T OF VIEW—The Light Touch in Journalism—As to Montessori Mothers T H E F I E L D OF ART—The Fallacy of the Short Cut in Art Education. (Adeline Adams.) • • • . . . THE FINANCIAL WORLD—After Two Years of War Alexander D a n a Noyes

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F o r several m o n t h s we h a v e asked Ah! this most surely beats the rest. our readers to criticize t h e a d v e r t i s e It holds the eye and tempts with zest "With streaks of fat and streaks of lean m e n t s in Scribner's each m o n t h . A And lots of goodness in between." goodly n u m b e r h a v e been interested —Criticism of Swift & Co.'s advertisement in this new diversion of weighing t h e in July Scribner. By Dr. W. M. Gardner. a d v e r t i s e m e n t s critically. T h e y h a v e found pleasure a n d i n s t r u c t i o n a n d m a n y h a v e b e e n gladdened b y t h e h a n d s o m e books t h a t h a v e been a w a r d e d as prizes. The three general methods of criticism have proved most interesting to the judges. have accounted for their choice of the best advertisement in one of three ways.

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Awards for Criticisms of the August Advertising Because eleven of the criticisms were of high order and worthy of recognition seven additional awards have been made First Award: Miss RUBY I. SHORT, Independence, Mo. $54.00 Set of Charles Dickens"s Works, 36 vols, (Ivory Soap) Second Award: Miss EMILY CLARK, Chicago, Ill. $12.00 Set of Booth Tarkington s Works, 6 vols. (United States Rubber Co.) Third Award: R. G. BLUTH, Detroit, Mich. $12.00 Set of F. Hopkinson Smith's Works, 6 vols. (Pierce-Arrow) Fourth Award: J. R. MOORE, Liberty, Mo. $12.00 Set of John Fox, Jr.'s Works", 6 vols. (King Motor Car) Hon. Mention : DEWlTT STETTEN, New York, N. Y. "Enoch Crane," by F. Hopkinson Smith and F. Berkeley Smith (Pierce-Arrow) Hon. Mention: Miss BERYL H. LlGHTFOOT, New York " After the Manner of Men," by Francis Lynde (Victor Talking Machine) Hon. Mention: Miss R U T H C. DTMMICK, Newark, N. J. "Souls Resurgent," by Marion Hamilton Carter (Ivory Soap) Hon. Mention : ALVIN E. BLOMQUIST, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. *' Our First War in Mexico," by Farnham Bishop (Hamilton Watch) Hon. Mention: E. B. WHITE, Galesburg, Ill. " Recollections Grave and Gay," by Mrs. Burton Harrison (Tiffany) Hon. Mention : BENJAMIN MILLS, JR., Hot Springs. Ark. " Free Man and Soldier," by Lawrence Perry (Pierce-Arrow) Hon.Mention: Miss MILDRED R. ALLISON, Newark, N.T. " Head Winds," by James B. Connolly (Splitdorf) N O T E : Awards for the criticisms of the advertising in the September SCRIBNER announced in November

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ARY K I N G WADDINGTON'S delightful memories of travel and ' social life in Europe have been for years among the Magazine's valued contributions. As the wife of a famous French diplomat, M. Waddington, she met and knew notable people everywhere. Her books, "Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife," " M y First Years as a Frenchwoman," "Chateau and Country Life in France," "Letters of a Diplomat's Wife," are most entertaining and intimate commentaries upon the prominent and interesting people she has known in various parts of the world. Her recent article, " A Village in the War Zone," gave a picture of what the German occupation meant to the people of northern France.

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recognize the very individual and graceful verses of men like Austin Dobson, Lang, and Frederick Locker, and Mr. Matthews first made known in this country the special verse forms that these men used. He has also written many short stories and several novels, and his life of Moliere and other studies of French literature are widely known. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and The National Institute of Arts and Letters, and was one of the founders of both the Authors' Club and The Players. His " Shakspere as a Playwright" and "French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century" are invaluable to students of the drama.

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ORA K E E N , who was recently married in Alaska to George William Handy, who accompanied her in the ascent of the last five hundred feet of Mount Blackburn, has long been known as an enthusiastic and intrepid mountain-climber. She has ascended nearly all of the most difficult Alpine peaks, and her conquering of Mount Blackburn in Alaska was considered a great achievement. She speaks of herself as a little woman, and many times climbing up dangerous rock faces was made especially hazardous by her being unable to follow the holds of her taller guides. No one will read this article and not find a perfectly satisfactory answer to the old question, " W h y take the risks and undergo the very real hardships of such climbs?"

AMUEL 0 . D U N N is the editor of the Railway Age Gazette and a high RS. WHARTON is known to every authority on the history of railroad reader of this magazine as one administration in this country. He is of the most brilliant and distinthe author of "American Transportation Questions," "Government Ownership of guished writers of modern times. In the Railways," and has lectured widely on story that begins in this number she shows her wonderful faculty of underrailroad subjects. standing and visualizing a side of life that is, indeed, a far cry from her more familR A N D E R M A T T H E W S is a pro- iar novels of the city life of the rich. I t fessor at Columbia University, and will take a high place among the few has been for years one of a group of really notable stories of New York. Her distinguished writers of essays and books first story in the Magazine, " Mrs. Manon subjects connected with contemporary stey's View," showed her knowledge of literature and the drama. He and his the by-ways of the city and some of the friend, Henry Cuyler Bunner, were first to dwellers therein.

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MAGAZINE NOTES THOMAS J E F F R I E S BETTS, re- r p jTHE author of The Field of Art on " T h e Fallacy of the Short Cut in cently of the University of Virginia, Art Education," Adeline Adams, is is taking a course at the National City Bank of New York. He lived for a Mrs. Herbert Adams, wife of the noted number of years in China and Japan and sculptor. She is well-known as a writer his local color is obviously from first- on art topics. hand observations. His story in this number is his first contribution. T H O R N T O NOAKLEY'S strikingly decorative illustrations in color acc o m p a n y i n g M a d a m e WaddingA R R O L L A I K I N S is a young poet whose verses have appeared ton's ' A Memory of Alassio " will impress all who have travelled in a number of in I t a l y with their periodicals. T h i s is truth and vivid realhis second appearance ization of the familiar in SCRIBNER'S. a s p e c t of " s u n n y Italy." SCRIBNER'S E L L I E VAN has from the very beDE G R I F T ginning of color-printSANCHEZ is a ing been a leader in sister of Mrs. Robert taking advantage of Louis Stevenson, and new m e t h o d s and has long been a resiin using the older ones dent of C a l i f o r n i a . to the best advantage. She is the author of a Successful color-printvolume on "Spanish ing calls for great care and I n d i a n Placein all its processes, Names in California," from the m a k i n g of and is a special stuthe plates to the most dent of local Spanish careful m e c h a n i c a l history and traditions. skill in the press-work. Margaret Adelaide Wilson. These pictures by Mr. ARGARET Oakley were printed ADELAIDE in four colors, red, blue, yellow, and black. WILSON'S home is in California. The artist has been well-known for a She is a comparatively new writer, whose number of years as a successful illustrator work has already shown distinction and and painter of mural subjects and has a fine literary quality. Her story " T h e won prizes for his water-colors. It may Son of Patrick O'Moira" in a recent numbe of interest to some who may not know ber attracted much attention.

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BOOK NOTES A L E X A N D E R DANA NOYES, au- his advocacy of naval preparedness and L\ thor of "Financial Chapters of the his controversy with Secretary Daniels, War," is familiar to the readers of which led to his recent resignation. He SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE as the writer every has always been one of those officers who month of " T h e Financial World," which have conferred honor on the service by has gained a distinct place as an authori- their writings, and, since Mahan, no one tative statement of financial and eco- of them enjoys a more authoritative repnomic conditions. Mr. Noyes has been utation. for twenty-five years financial editor of the New York Evening Post, and during ^MONG the many enthusiastic exthe famous free-silver campaign of '96 pressions about "Bonnie M a y " is he wrote a "Free Coinage Catechism," of the following from an officer of a which two million copies were circulated. bank and trust company of importance in His book, as all he writes, New Jersey: makes clear to the layman " Since reception of the missthe questions which affect ing April Magazine I have read the prosperity of our in'Bonnie M a y ' and want to dustries and our country. congratulate Mr. Dodge. It is one of the best novels I ever His language is simple for read. I am too old to digest a the layman, without in serial, but not too old—only any way impairing the auninety-two—to enjoy an Ai thority of his opinions with story completed." financiers.

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U N D E R the heading NER's MAGAZINE a r e 'The French Amfamiliar with the bassador Writes a charm of Edward H. SothBook," the New York Tribern's " Reminiscences," une on August 7 devoted and they will be glad to its leading editorial to a know that two-thirds of © Clinedinst J. J. Jusserand. review of " With Amerthe volume, " T h e Melicans of Past and Present ancholy Tale of ' M e , ' " is Days," by J. J. Jusserand, in the course entirely new material, fully as amusing of which it said: and important as the chapters in the " I t is a book that every American Magazine. Mr. Sothern, who will soon should read; it is a book that deals go to make his home in Warwickshire, luminously and accurately with things England, has spent the summer at Sea that are too little known and too fre- Gate, Coney Island, where some of his quently forgotten. But what is best most remarkable characters have been about the book is the thing that is best put upon the films. A limited autograph about its author; it is the expression of edition of his book will be published. a friendship for our own country in which there is neither selfishness nor self-seekN view of the immediate and practical ing." advance—both in administration and public opinion—resulting from the " W i t h Americans of Past and Present Days " has now reached the third printing. publication of Mr. Galsworthy's "Justice," it is most interesting to note that EAR-ADMIRAL FISKE, whose many of the sketches and essays in Y\ book "The Navy as a Fighting his forthcoming volume, "A Sheaf," Machine," announced for early contain impassioned and ironic protests publication, is among the most widely against the general practice of cruelty known of American naval officers, through to animals.

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T h e November Scribner's An article for every lover of the open: Jesse Lynch Williams's delightful appreciation of " GOOD H U N T I N G " in the A u t u m n days. Sport and pleasure with country friends, an idealistic young pointer and a philosophic old setter.

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" T H E ROMANCE O F T H E SEARCH FOR N I T R O G E N . " A Wonderful Achievement of Modern Science: Renewing t h e E a r t h from, the Air. By L. H. Baekeland, Member of the N a v a l Consulting Board of the United States. An article for every parent, every young m a n : " L O O K I N G Y O U T H I N T H E F A C E , " by Pearce Bailey, M.D. Laying the Foundations of Success or Failure in Life. How Fortunes Are Being M a d e by the Fore-and-Aft Sailing Fleet i n N e w E n g l a n d : " O L D S E A P O R T S A W A K E N E D . " T h e new romance of the coasting fleet. By Ralph D. Paine. Illustrated. Brander Matthews's charming " L O N D O N M E M O R I E S . " Personal Impressions of Famous English M e n of Letters.

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The conclusion of Mrs. Wharton's A story of old New York.

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" T H E B E L L S O F C U L L A M , " by Ethel Watts Mumford. Scotch golf story with a canny little caddie for the hero.

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" T H E H U S B A N D O F M A D A M E , " by James Huneker. A n amusing story of the musical world. " G O D ' S M A T E R I A L , " by Charles Belmont Davis. luck t h a t came t o a young couple of the suburbs.

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" AN O L D M A N W I T H O U T A S O N , " by Robert TV. Sneddon. A story of t h e war — of a n old Paris waiter. ' A Frontispiece in Color b y C. W. Ashley. New York Pictures, b y Vernon Howe Bailey.


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A Romance

By ROBERT J . KELLY

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