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Postage extra FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Harper's Magazine for 1914 "The Most Interesting Magazine in the World" HARPER'S MAGAZINE FOR 1914 The policy of HARPER'S MAGAZINE may be summed up in a single In its short stories, its serials, its special articles, and its illustra- ¶Every month, while you are reading HARPER'S MAGAZINE, its ARNOLD BENNETT'S NEW NOVEL ERE is a novel of an absolutely unique sort. HE In the very first instalment the reader is brought face to face with an extraordinary situation in which all the principal characters of the story are involved. The mystery becomes more baffling as the story progresses, and not until the final chapters is it elucidated. In plot and execution it is the biggest thing that Mr. Bennett has done. Everybody in America and England will soon be discussing it. It begins in the December number, and will be beautifully illus trated in full color by Mr. C. E. Chambers. Copyright, 1912, by Pirie MacDonald No BOOTH TARKINGTON'S Novel of American Life O writer of to-day knows and portrays American life so vividly, so truthfully, and with such humor as Booth Tarkington. The scenes of his new novel are laid not in the great cities of the East, but in his own country-the real America -the Middle West. Mr. Tarkington's earliest novel, "The Conquest of Canaan," was one of the most successful in the great line of HARPER serials. An even greater success is predicted for the new story which will follow Mr. Bennett's novel. Harper's Magazine for 1914 DANADADDADANDAANNNNNNÍ ១០០០០ A New Series of "Old Chester Tales" OF F all the famous stories which have appeared in HARPER'S MAGAZINE none have taken so strong a hold on the affections of the public as Mrs. Deland's "Old Chester Tales." The simple announcement of the fact that Mrs. Deland is writing more of these delightful stories will be of the greatest interest to all readers of the MAGAZINE. The first of the new Old Chester Tales will appear in an early number. The Story of a Boy By HENRY VAN DYKE WITH deep reverence and with all his wonderful power of bringing up before us the scenes and peoples of days long past, Dr. van Dyke has written a story of the boyhood of Christ. He tells the story with rare gentleness and simplicity and his narrative is one which is destined to become a classic which will rank with "The Story of the Other Wise Man." It will be illustrated in color by N. C. Wyeth. NE EARLY ten months ago Norman Duncan set out on an interesting expedition for HARPER'S MAGAZINE. He went to discover Australia and with him went George Harding, the artist. He saw an Australia that the casual traveler will never see, and the articles which he has written are of a remarkable interest and novelty. They deal with the life of the gold-fields the dry-blowers, prospectors, miners with tales of the days of the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie rushes; with the vast Australian deserts, and the aboriginals which inhabit them; with life in the bush; with a long coaching trip through the Queensland back-blocks; with the trooper police and their adventurous lives; with tales of some extraordinary arrests of white and native offenders; with the black-trackers; with the Queensland coast and the Great Barrier Reef, the shell-divers, beche-demer divers, island life, hurricanes; with the adventurous settlers of the tropical Northern Territory; with Papua (British New Guinea), the cannibals, pioneer planters, missionaries, exploration, and administration. Singing Through France By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE PROVENCE is the land of poets and poetry — peculiarly a land for a poet to write about. Mr. Richard Le Gallienne recently made a long walking trip through this romantic corner of France and has written a number of charmingly graceful articles descriptive of his journey. Harper's Magazine for 1914 000007 THE Chapters from an Autobiography By W. D. HOWELLS HE life of William Dean Howells has been scarcely less typically American than that of Mark Twain - and no less interesting. Here and there in his books we have had glimpses of this life, but, after all, they were only glimpses. At last Mr. Howells has consented to write for HARPER'S MAGAZINE Some chapters which are truly autobiographical, and in them we see him in his most delightful vein. The chapters are of the greatest interest as giving not only a vivid picture of the author's early days and the men and women he has known, but in recording with both humor and fidelity certain unforgettable pictures of the life of the day. FEW DIPLOMATIC DIALOGUES BY THE HON. DAVID JAYNE HILL Formerly U. S. Ambassador to Germany EW of our diplomats have been gifted with so graceful a pen as the Hon. David Jayne Hill, who has written for HARPER'S MAGAZINE some notable contributions on diplomacy. These diplomatic dialogues are supposed to take place in a club at the capital and various statesmen, diplomats, lawyers, and judges take part in them. The result is a surprisingly clear and delightfully stated presentation of some most interesting phases of the problems of our international relations. IN THE WONDERLAND OF SCIENCE the field of science HARPER'S MAGAZINE occupies a unique position. It is the one non-technical magazine for which the great men of the scientific world are willing to write. It has given to the world the first accounts of many of the most important scientific discoveries of our time. The coming year promises astounding revelations. НА TRAVEL BY LAND AND SEA [ARPER'S MAGAZINE is a world magazine in other senses than its universal appeal. It sends out its own expeditions to little-known corners of the world; it publishes in each number strikingly novel and always interesting articles of travel. It brings the world to its readers. The outlook of the new year in this field is peculiarly attractive. In many strange corners of the world are explorers who will first tell their stories in the pages of HARPER'S. Delightfully illustrated articles on lessremote regions will be a feature and there will be many fascinating narratives of little voyages of discovery in our own country and in Europe. Harrison Rhodes has written a number of unusual papers on "American Holidays" pictures of the many varied places where we spend our idle hours. C. W. Furlong will tell of some strange people of the SouthAmerican interior. Robert C. Murphy describes his visit to the almost unknown South Georgia Island near Cape Horn. Ellsworth Huntington writes of his explorations of Yucatan, and there will be important articles on first ascents of hitherto unconquered mountains, nature sketches, aeroplane journeys, etc., etc. Harper's Magazine for 1914 กาววายจากอาการ Unpublished Writings of MARK TWAIN AMONG the unpublished manuscripts now in the hands of Mark Twain's literary executors are some of curious interest. All of this material comes first to the editors of HARPER'S MAGAZINE and the best of these MSS.-the most interesting will appear for the first time in HARPER'S MAGAZINE during the coming months. THE LETTERS OF A DIPLOMAT'S WIFE MA ADAME DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE, the author of these letters, is the American wife of the recently retired Danish Ambassador to Germany. Since 1875, when she returned to the country of her birth and married the newly appointed Danish Minister to Washington, she has lived constantly in the society of the great world of affairs, first at one capital, then another. Through her letters we get a charmingly intimate glimpse, not only of many of our own great men, but of kings and queens, princes and potentates, the great artists and musicians, men and women with whom the writer has been on terms of friendship. They are even more delightful reading than Madame de Hegermann's earlier letters describing her life in Paris during the Commune and her visits to the court of Napoleon III. THE CHANGING AMERICAN TWO notable groups of articles presenting in different ways some of the most interesting phases of our national development will appear shortly. Walter Weyl, Ph.D., will picture the startling though subtle change in the American character and the causes that have brought about this change. Robert Bruère will tell of some of the important new ideas which are being adopted in the work of our rural schools, rural churches, and elsewhere, showing our general awakening to a greater sense of our responsibilities toward our fellow-men. 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