A Certain Pile of Delightful Manuscripts Soon to Be Put into Pages for Your Enjoyment During the Coming Year THE HE buccaneers of the seventh century were wont to drop anchor, on occasion, in the quiet, tropical harbors of what they called "Las Virgenes." Columbus had so named them when he discovered this island group on his second trip in 1494. They have been successively the property of the Danes, the British, the Danes, the British, the Danes, and finally the Americans. The Virgin Islands (purchased to block a Ger man scheme) to-day are the most foreign part of the SUCH Scribner authors as these will United States. Kate Douglas Wiggin, during a winter trip, gathered material here for a charming love story called "Our New Possessions," which will appear in Scribner's as a novelette in two parts. TRO ROOPING across the border into Holland, hopeless, eyes turned toward a strange country into which they contribute fiction regularly during the coming year: John Galsworthy, Maxwell Struthers Burt, Harriet Welles, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Katharine Holland Brown, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Abbie Carter Goodloe, Armistead C. Gordon, Lieutenant Edward C. Venable, Katharine Baker, Lieutenant George T. Marsh, Major Wolcott LeClear Beard, Roy Irving Murray, Elizabeth Herrick. As readers of Scribner's you know what delightful fiction, charmingly brought their poor possessions, the illustrated, these gifted men and women will offer you. ON people of Belgium de spairingly sought es cape from the grind-IN what form will religion survive the ing heel of Kultur. N the Pacific slope of the Rocky Mountains lives a people of whom the East actually knows little. An enthusiastic unity, accelerated by the war, has grown up among these States that is hardly appreciated in other parts of the country. Professor William M. Sloane spent last winter on, this coast lecturing in its most important cities and universities. He has written, from an Easterner's view-point, an unusual expression of "Our Pacific Democracy." war, and what are the religious tendencies of France after more than four years of spiritual tribulation? Alfred Rebelliau, a member of the Institute of France and a distinguished writer, will contribute to Scribner's a notable paper on "The Religious Sentiment in France To-Day." M. Rebelliau is an authority on his subject. ODDLY assorted groups of "professionals" come and go in the theatrical boarding-houses of Sydney, Australia. With rare humor Isobel Field, the stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, has written of them most amusingly. Mrs. Field is the sister of Lloyd Osbourne, mother of Austin Strong and wife of Salisbury Field, all of them writers of contemporary plays. AT just what point in the emancipation of woman does her economic and domestic self-sufficiency end? Will her freedom ever be complete? "The Limit of Feminine Independence," "Marriage and Divorce," and "The Morality of Legislation" are titles of three essays prepared for Scribner's by Judge Robert Grant, of Boston. A careful study of "Women and Heavy War Work," by Doctor W. Gilman Thompson, telling what has been done by women in our factories and how they have done it, is another fascinating, authoritative paper that readers of Scribner's will enjoy. DAY-L AY-LONG prairie winds still blow; furtive coyotes still trot at dawn across far hills to some unfound den; sage-brush and cactus still form the life background for real cowboys, Indians, greasers, and an occasional bad man with a gun in the old Southwest that most of us have so long supposed existed only in fiction, romance, and the "movies." Lawrence Perry has rediscovered it all in a recent trip and has set it down for us under the title "From a Back Platform." OUR government has decided to permit men in the service to contribute to magazines. Lieutenant Newton Jenkins watched our marines, the "First to Fight," in France and will tell you of their wonderful work there. Other officers whose writings may be expected to appear in Scribner's are: Major E. LEXANDER DANA NOYES, Scribner's financial editor, the foremost American writer on financial subjects, is continually in touch with all the important men and movements in this sphere. To read Mr. Noyes's articles each month is to be authoritatively conversant with the nation's and the world's Scribner's financial happenings and possibilities. Investment Service Bureau for readers will continue as a valuable feature. IN the coming year Scribner's will be, more than ever before, an intellectual necessity-a real essential to thinking, appreciative America. Scribner's brings more than merely its hours of mental enjoyment each month. The best things that are done in art, in verse, in fiction, and in essay reach your reading-table in its pages. Make sure now that you do not miss a single copy. Fill in the slip below where space has been left for your name and address. Tear it off and mail it to us to-day. If you are already a subscriber your subscription will be renewed automatically at the end of its present term. The subscription price is the same as before, $4 a year, but do not send any money with this renewal order. A bill will be submitted to you later. This order slip may also be used in ordering Scribner's as a Christmas gift. CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS NUMBER JOHN FINLEY is one of the lead- ROY S. DURSTINE has been in ing educators of the country. He has France doing Y. M. C. A. work. He is been identified with leading universities widely known as a writer of originality and is now the Commissioner of Educa- and freshness of view-point. tion of the State of New York. He was sent abroad as a special envoy by the State regents, and is now in Palestine. KERMIT ROOSEVELT, captain U. S. A., is a son of Colonel Roosevelt. He entered the war as captain in the English army and was awarded a medal for distinguished services with that army in Mesopotamia. He has recently been transferred to the American army in France. RAYMOND. RECOULY (Captain X) is a distinguished French army officer who was with General Humbert in the first battle of the Marne, and is the author of "Joffre and His Battles." ARMISTEAD C. GORDON is a lawyer of the South, a long-time friend and co-author with Thomas Nelson Page. HENRY VAN DYKE has been for months chaplain, with rank of lieutenantcommander in the U. S. navy. LIEUTENANT HENRI DE MAN before the war was a leader in the Belgian Labor Party. He enlisted in the Belgian army as a private and spent three years on the fighting line, and was decorated with the Belgian War Cross and the British Military Cross. He came to America as a member of the Belgian Government Mission on Industrial Reconstruction. He lived for years in Germany studying labor and socialistic movements. JOHN GALSWORTHY is one of the foremost English novelists of to-day. JOHAN W. PRINS is a native of Holland who has spent a number of years in America. He writes from his experiences as a Y. M. C. A. secretary in Siberia. OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN is one of the leaders among contemporary writers of verse. PROFESSOR GRAHAM LUSK is a foremost physiologist and has won wide fame as a teacher throughout the United States. He has been identified with some of our leading medical colleges. He went abroad as a member of the InterAllied Scientific Food Commission. HARRIET WELLES is the wife of Admiral Welles, of the U. S. navy. Her stories will soon appear in book form. MAJOR LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT was formerly chaplain of the famous Black Watch Regiment. He has lectured in the United States. MARGARET CABLE BREWSTER is a daughter of George W. Cable, the novelist, author of "Old Creole Days" and other famous books. THEODORE DREISER is one of the most discussed of American novelists and short-story writers. In this article he shows quite a new side in his intimate and sympathetic appreciation of the people of the countryside in war time. JOHN MYERS O'HARA is a New Yorker who has published several vol umes of verse. WILLIAM JOHN HOPKINS is a Massachusetts man, author of "The Clammer" and many other stories. EMMANUEL BOURCIER is a distinguished French author who has recently gone back to France. He is the author of "Under the German Shells." THE POINT OF VIEW in this number on "Sudden Friendships-France, 1918" is by Mrs. Francis Rogers, who has been in France with her husband, the noted American baritone. (Continued on page 8) BAILEY, BANKS & BIDDLE CO. Jewelers Silversmiths Stationers Christmas Gifts Anniversary Gifts Wedding Gifts Hand Book 1919 Engraved-Personal-Greeting Philadelphia MAGAZINE NOTES C HUNTER ORPORAL LEAF, member of the old 7th Regiment, N. Y. N. G., was employed in the Circulation Department of SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE. In a recent letter from a general hospital in France, where he was. sent after being wounded near St. Quentin, he gives this vivid description of a wounded man's experience: General Hospital 73, 10/7/18. We were told on September that it was our job to pierce one of the strongest points of the Hindenburg line. A Jerry plane came flying over us, and as he circled over the trench, coming lower and lower each turn, we knew he was preparing to sweep our trench with his machine-gun. Just as he was making a turn, and our machine-guns were all shooting at him, one of our officers took up a rifle and hit him. He dived and then flopped over. It was a great sight to see him fall, because it saved a lot of casualties, and we all let out a yell. When I got time to think of all that had happened, I realized that I hadn't gotten' one souvenir and the Australians told us to get all we could. But I had forgotten all about them. I wasn't to be disappointed, though, because at twelve-thirty I got a nice souvenir. A machine-gun bullet clean through my shoulder. Went through without even hesitating. Funny thing-it didn't hurt a bit, but what did hurt was the idea of retracing my steps over about eight or nine hundred yards of dead ground, covered by Jerry's guns. But I decided to take a chance and try to get to a dressing-station, so I ran as hard as I could for seventy-five yards, with all my equipment-rifle, pistol, ammunition, and pack. The minute I appeared above the top of the trench I was greeted with all sorts of flying things, and I lay it to Jerry's poor marksmanship that I'm writing this now. Just before I took a head-first dive into a shell-hole, completely exhausted, a bullet went through my sleeve and never touched me. Another scarred my hand up a bit. I rested there for a while and then made a dash for another shell-hole. I dodged my way from shell-hole to shell-hole over those eight hundred yards, never dreaming that I'd ever get out of it whole. The bullets were coming from three sides of me and were spitting in the dirt all around me. Why I didn't get it again I don't know. . . I finally got over the hill, out of Jerry's machine-gun range, but he was shooting Whizz Bangs over and I had to keep dodging those, although that was easy in comparison. I met one of our sergeants, who had been wounded and had travelled the same ground all alone, as I had. We nearly fell into each other's arms. We both felt safer in each other's company. We walked about two miles to the nearest dressing-station. Still, shells were falling all around us but not near enough to do any damage. We had our wounds dressed and then went to an Australian dressing-station where American doctors dressed our wounds a little better. The American Red Cross was here and gave us the best hot cocoa that I've ever tasted. We hadn't had anything to eat for 24 hours and nothing hot for 48 hours, so you can imagine what that cocoa was to us. They also gave us chocolate and American cigarettes. I know now why a wounded man always wants cigarettes. I smoked them from the time I hit the first dressing-station at two o'clock, I think, till I went to bed that night. They certainly do soothe the nerves, and mine were a bit upset. WT ways an astute and sympathetic critic, in a recent number of Reedy's Mirror, has a long article about "The Work of Louis Dodge." He says: There has been no exploitation of Louis Dodge, novelist. This is becoming enough, for there is no writing man more modest. He is singularly well unknown here in his home town, St. Louis. There is no coterie that gathers about him and shouts for him. Even in newspaper circles in which he has worked for years little is heard of him as a local literary light. He has quit journalism and taken a room in an office-building and works there regular hours daily, with what excellent result! There are four books to his credit: "Bonnie May," "Children of the Desert," "A Runaway Woman," and "The Sandman's Forest"-all published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Mr. Reedy gives an excellent analysis of the recent serial in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, “A Runaway Woman." Mr. Dodge's quality is mingled patience and simplicity, with a curious intensity of realization of his characters. He builds up his landscapes as he does his characters, without too much calling attention to his skill in doing it. His humor is a diffusion throughout the book, in which there is true comedy, but no comic high-lights. And he brings us up quite naturally to the point of his story, that we find that we need higher things not by running away from but by staying at home. |