KATHARINE HOLLAND BROWN As the organizer and chairman of the is one of the best known and most ad- National Research Council, "formed for mired of American short-story writers. the purpose of promoting, through coA number of her stories have appeared operation and otherwise, research in in SCRIBNER'S, including among others this country in all the fields of science," the charming "Bonnet with Lilacs," he is doing a most important work "Galahad's Daughter," "Alice's Child," in the organization of the scientists in "The First-Born," "A Brief Text from the interests of national defense. of stories, including several novels. His "Full-back," published last fall, has been spoken of as one of the best prep-school stories ever written. It is a good novel of school life, appreciated both by young men and grown-ups. KENYON COX is one of the foremost of American artists and teachers. His beautiful mural paintings may be seen in a number of public buildings throughout the country. DR. GEORGE ELLERY HALE is one of the great scientists of the country. He built and for a number of years has been the director of the great solar observatory on Mount Wilson, California, and has made a number of highly important astronomical discoveries. He has been the recipient of high honors from many American and foreign universities, and is a member of various scientific societies throughout the world. GEORGE T. MARSH is a lawyer whose home is in Providence. He has spent many vacations in hunting and fishing expeditions in Canada, and knows the ways of the people of the wilderness. ERNEST THOMPSON SETON is known everywhere as a nat uralist and by his stories of animal life. Some of his best-known stories first appeared in this magazine. MILDRED CRAM lives in New York. She has been a great traveller. FRANCIS LYNDE is a novelist whose home is near Chattanooga, Tenn. Arcady," that is concluded in this numHis serial of adventure, "Stranded in ber, has been one of his most successful stories. It will be published in book form shortly. JOHN PEALE BISHOP is the managing editor of the Nassau Literary Magazine, at Princeton. WILL H. LOW is a well-known artist and mural painter, whose home is at Bronxville, New York. He was a pupil of Carolus-Duran, in Paris. (Continued on page 12) F course if, when you motor, you invariably drive very fast, lots of little wayside details like the above are obliterated and the country survives in your memory as mere large blotches of color. But if you are not intent on getting somewhere immediately, you will find pursuing wild flowers by motor a most pleasing occupation. Right along the roadside-not a hundred feet away-grow a very wealth of them of all kinds, and if you watch carefully you will go home with the back seat piled high with a thousand things you never knew existed. Of course, the rub comes when you try to figure out what they are. Here we recommend Miss Keeler's new book, "Wayside Flowers of Summer." It has many colored plates, half-tones, and line-drawings, and is especially designed for "motor botanists. T HERE has been talk of "insidious German influences" at work in the government of this country. This may or may not be true, but it has proved true in Russia, and to such an extent that only a complete upheaval of the government could expel these powerful forces. Perhaps nowhere did the German and Austrian intrigues gain more power than in Italy, where they had grown up for years, forged the mistaken Triple Alliance, and were overthrown only by the supreme and concerted effort of the people. The growth of this power of the Central Empires in Italy, and its overthrow, is the theme of a new book, Greater Italy," by William Kay Wallace, who discusses Italy's participation in international European politics during the past sixty years. F the Americans who gave their lives for France, perhaps none is now so widely known as Alan Seeger, the young American poet who was killed in battle and whose collected poems were afterward published in this country. Those who know Seeger's poems will welcome the volume of his letters and diary which are just published. These are war-time letters and the diary he kept at the front. (Continued on page 10) That Italian railway trains have been That the traffic on the roads behind the shelled by submarines. That some of the most famous churches in Venice have been destroyed by Austrian airplanes, which have raided that city more than a hundred times. That in six days the Italians mobilized and equipped and transported to the front an army of half a million men. That the French have in commission 7,000 airplanes. That tear-producing shells are more effective and more generally used than asphyxiating gas. British front is denser than the traffic on Fifth Avenue and that it is controlled by traffic policemen. That the French have organized a corps of scene-painters to paint scenery to deceive the German airmen. That soldiers whose faces have been blown away have been given new faces by American surgeons. That there is a Russian army fighting in France. That an American woman is giving phonograph concerts in the Belgian firstline trenches. |