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THE CENTURY

OCTOBER, 1914

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The articles and pictures are copyrighted, and must not be reprinted without special permission

"Lights Through the Mist"

Printed in color. From a painting.

.ARTHUR RACKHAM

. Frontispiece

The Charm That Is Barrie. A Study..........JOHN D. WILLIAMS
Portrait of Barrie, printed in tint, and pictures from photographs and sculpture

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WILLIAM ROSE BENET
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MARY HEATON VORSE

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The Value of Cocoa

As an article of food depends upon the quality of the cocoa beans used and the process of manufacture; the flavor and palatability depend largely upon the blending of the products gathered from the different parts of the tropical world.

Registered U. S. Patent Office

THE WALTER BAKER COMPANY

Has had an unparalleled experience
of over one hundred and thirty-
three years in the selection and
blending of the world's products.
The process of manufacture used
in their mills, the largest in the
world, is purely mechanical, and
perfectly preserves the delicious
natural flavor, the attractive rich
red-brown color and
great nutritive
qualities of high-grade cocoa beans.
Their preparations, both Cocoa and
Chocolate, have an unequaled rep-
utation for purity, quality and flavor
-attested by

53 HIGHEST AWARDS from International and Local Expositions in Europe and America.

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A very attractive recipe book, containing forty new recipes for HOME MADE CANDIES in which Cocoa or Chocolate is used, sent free to any address..

WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd.

Established 1780

DORCHESTER, MASS.

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The Centurion

LMOST a shy personality, Marie Sukloff

a Russian Terrorist, yet this young woman has already been through some of the most terrific experiences that life has to offer. Her grandfather settled in the province of Vilna in 1851. When about fifteen she organized for the workmen's "Bund" a strike of the stocking-weavers about Vilna. From this time on she maintained a growing interest and activity in revolutionary movements, finally entering the secret ranks of the Terrorists. In the November CENTURY she contributes an intimate article dealing with the assassination of a high official, which has probably never been equaled as a record of such a dramatic moment from the viewpoint of the bombthrower.

There is nothing in it of the vulgarly sensational, however. In those bitter times Miss Sukloff was going through an ordeal by fire, fighting for a cause she considered the highest and greatest in the world. She contributes a very valuable human document to the serious study of conditions in the great white country of the Czar.

Algernon Blackwood is just coming into his own in America. He has had a singular career. At twenty he was sent to a farm in Canada. He spent a brief period there upon a Methodist magazine, and then took to dairyfarming. After the collapse of this enterprise he bought a hotel, his partner being a young Oxford undergraduate. Six months at this was followed by six penniless months in the backwoods. Then Mr. Blackwood journeyed to New York. Here he traversed the rockiest of roads. He posed for artists. He taught French and German and the violin. Then he became a reporter. Next he escaped to the Rainy River Gold Fields. Finally, after many more vicissitudes, he returned to England in 1898. Meanwhile he had been trying his hand at fiction, and had published a few short stories and "Jimbo." Since 1905 he has been traveling, taking his work with him. All that he owns is in three trunks. In the summer his wanderings take him to the Caucasus (where he wrote "The Centaur"), to the Jura Mountains ("Pan's Garden" and "The Human Chord"), to the Dorsetshire pine. woods and to the Alps. His winters he spends in Switzerland and Egypt, the latter land evidently inspiring his latest short story, "The

Wings of Horus," in the November CENTURY. Algernon Blackwood excels in the weird and fantastic, in the most delicate nuances of the imagination. This latest story stands triumphant in its own strange field.

Samuel P. Orth, the well-known lawyer, who has also been an Arctic adventurer, and is a valued contributor to political and professional journals, will present in the November CENTURY just the article American readers are looking for in regard to the present European crisis. It is called "Germany's Destiny," and is a sound and clear review and forecast of the Teutonic attitude in Europe. It deals in essentials, and strikes straight to the heart of the problematical struggle of the Powers.

Whether or no there is any chance of a future German over-lordship in Europe, all minds at the present time are earnestly pondering the possibility. Whether the Allies are to repulse cnce for all the most amazing military organization in the history of armies, or to fall captive to its bow and spear, every brain is busied with the question. Mr. Orth's article will clear a good many doubts.

The last of the "Velsa" articles will appear in the November CENTURY. This article will take Mr. Bennett and his boat through the many estuaries of the east coast of England. Here, with fine humor and interesting observation, the author describes Brightlingsea, Wivenhoe, Colchester, Harwich (an important naval port), Ipswich, Pinwill (renowned among painters and yachtsmen), Maldon, at the head of the Blackwater, and then down the river to Tollesbury pier, where ended the cruise of the Velsa for the season.

Continuing its series of notable and always interesting travel articles, THE CENTURY for November will contain an article on a motor tour through Provence by Albert Bigelow Paine. The author is at present in Switzerland. Writing from Vevey early in August, Mr. Paine said:

"Heaven knows what the next few days will bring. Tourists are rushing out of Switzerland, hoping to get home, but we are not among them. Switzerland is mobilizing for defense, but it is not likely that there is, or will be, a more peaceful spot in Europe. So here we (Continued on page 8.)

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