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AVE you ever noticed, when men are talking "cars," how some of them are rather shy about mentioning the name of the machine they own? They probably did not take the precaution of carefully comparing values before they bought and their car fell sadly short

of the advertised claims they made for it.

There are more than 25,000 Overlands in use in this country, and we have never found an Overland owner who was not proud of his car and its record of reliability. Each one is over-anxious to tell you about the wonderful way in which his machine has "stood up." They know for a positive fact that for the price the Overland is by far the best car in America.

¶ Anyone can prove this by taking our Model 51, priced at $1250, and comparing it with any other make priced up to $1500. Take the measure of this machine as against all others. Take the entire list of specifications-compare item for item and see what better value you get in this Overland. Don't refuse to give yourself a square deal. Handle your automobile purchase as you would one of your toughest business problems. Get the cold facts. Sift out the generalities. If you do not feel capable of passing judgment take some friend along who knows automobile values. See that you get the best quality in the lowest market. That's business.

q Look up the Overland dealer in your town. He will be glad to explain the greater Överland values. Overlands are priced from $775 to $1675. Drop us a line and we will send you an Overland book which illustrates the complete line-gives specifications, prices, and the complete story.

The Willys-Overland Company

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McCLURE'S MAGAZINE

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MARIA MONTESSORI

A WONDER WORKER IN

EDUCATION

The Marvels of Maria Montessori

THE wonderful educational discoveries and achieve

ments of Maria Montessori, an Italian educator, will be described, for the first time in the English language, 1, by Josephine Tozier. Madame Montessori has entirely done away with the drudgery of learning to read and Children four years old learn to write in six weeks, without effort or strain, and reading follows almost as easily. Maria Montessori has been called the "rediscoverer of the ten fingers." The revolutionary feature of her system is the extraordinary development, in very young children, of the sense of touch.

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CRITICAL MOMENTS WITH
WILD ANIMALS

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By ELLEN VELVIN, F. Z. S.

ISS VELVIN'S first article, published some months ago, dealt principally with the accidental and incidental dangers which wild-animal trainers incur, and with the momentary flashes of anger or surliness on the part of the animals. Her second article takes up animals of a notoriously savage or gentle disposition, explains somewhat their trainers' methods, and tells story after story of sudden danger and narrow escape.

FOR

"RODANIA, THE

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MAGIC MARE”

By LUCILLE BALDWIN VAN SLYKE

Author of

"The Rug of Her Fathers" and "The Tooth of Antar"

UDGING from the letters and inquiries which

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have flooded this office ever since "The Rug of Her Fathers" appeared, it would seem that to please a great majority of our readers we have only to announce that in the May number we will publish a third Syrian story by Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke.

"A CITIZEN OF CALAIS "

By Marie Belloc Lowndes

Author of "According to Meredith" and "The Lodger"

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N extraordinary story of a disaster which overtakes a submarine in the French Navy, told with all Mrs. Lowndes' color and power.

GIRLHOOD OF

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

By Her Son and Her Grandson, C. E. and L. B. STOWE

A REMARKABLE picture of life in a clergyman's family in New England nearly one hundred years ago. The Rev. Lyman Beecher brought up his large family of children at Litchfield, Connecticut. The struggles of these young people against the severe theology of their father, their fight for the beauty and joy of life, make a story of exciting intellectual adventure.

"I Swear By

Ray Stannard Baker"

"READING The American Magazine is

like sitting down to talk with a mellow old friend who has emerged from much trouble to see things clearly, cleanly, and hopefully. Experience has broadened its scope and has given an authoritative grasp of situations; something has given it charity.

When I read The Editor's Table' and The Interpreter's House,' the thought always comes of a kindly personality, yet wise; that helps to explain the tone of the articles in between.

Specifically, I swear by Ray Stannard Baker. When he pictures a situation — he has written concerning some things which I know intimately nothing is lacking but something is added - the clear interpretation which is impossible sometimes to those blinded by too great familiarity with details.

He seems a personification of the magazine."

This letter from a reader was chosen from many thousands of letters about The American Magazine which have been received by the publisher.

These thousands of readers who expressed their appreciation of the magazine in this way are but a small part of the hundreds of thousands who read The American Magazine every month.

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"HITTING THE DIRT"

If you have ever broiled in the sun with your hat in one hand, a bag of peanuts in the other, and cheered wildly when Wagner or Chase or any of the great base-ball players "pulled off" a good play, you will appreciate those remarkable base-ball articles which are now appearing in The American Magazine. The first story is called "Hitting the Dirt," and it appears in the May number. These articles are written by

HUGH FULLERTON Fan, Base-ball Scientist, Writer

For twenty years Fullerton has been reporting the national games; twenty years passionately studying his hobbybase-ball. Fullerton knows intimately every important player, has traveled with them, played with them, and worked with them.

"Hitting the Dirt," in the May American Magazine, tells you all about base running. There is a whole lot of real science to base stealing that you miss in the excitement of the game. Fullerton can tell you what chance a base runner has of stealing; how long it takes a ball to go from the pitcher's box to the catcher and back to second; how a runner can take a lead of only two feet on one pitcher and with equal safety of ten feet on another.

Four Other Big Features in The
American Magazine for May are

"The Meaning of Insurgency"-plain words about the Progressive Political Movement, by Ray Stannard Baker.

"Phoebe in Search of Bohemia” another one of those humorous and charming "Phoebe and Ernest" stories by Inez Haynes Gillmore.

"Two Sides of the Line"-how taxes encourage industry and production in Canada, but idleness and speculation in the United States, by Albert J. Nock.

"The Principles of Scientific Management" by its inventor, Frederick W. Taylor. The story of Mr. Taylor's adventures in developing the efficiency of men and machinery.

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The map above will give an object lesson of the time LIFE is distributed throughout the United States. In each place the exact moment of the arrival of LIFE cannot always be predicated, owing to the elasticity of train arrivals, but the map is approximately correct.

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