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THE CENTURY

NOVEMBER

Volume 101

CONTENTS

1920

No. 1

Articles and pictures are copyrighted and must not be reprinted without special permission

Lost Ships and Lonely Seas. III. The Tragedy of.. Ralph D. Paine

the Frigate Medusa. Illustrations by George Avison

105

The Worship of Beauty in the South Seas ....Frederick O'Brien

The Lost Path. Verse.

The Tug of War. A story

Illustrations by Norman Price

The Tide of Affairs.

Investment and Banking

113

Elinor Wylie
120

Phyllis Bottome
(Mrs. Forbes Dennis)
122

. Glenn Frank

131

John K. Barnes

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