Announcement of next month's issue HARPER'S MAGAZINE FOR OCTOBER A CITY OF CONTRADICTIONS No city in America is so full of contradictions and charm and historic paradox as Washington. Oliver Peck Newman writes of our capital city from a novel point of view. With a special series of photographs made expressly for Harper's Magazine by Sherril Schell, and reproduced in tint. WHAT OUR MINDS ARE MADE OF Prof. James Harvey Robinson shows how much of our mental equipment to-day is inherited from the animal and savage mind of prehistoric times in spite of all civilizing influences. WHAT MARK TWAIN THOUGHT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Brander Matthews reveals a side of Mark Twain which has been overlooked -his attitude toward the style of other famous writers, his own reverence for the English tongue, and his rigorous, careful use of it. MENTAL SPECTACLES-THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEED Too many of the ills of to-day are due to seeing things too closely or out of proper focus. Fleta Campbell Springer analyzes acutely the myopic and astigmatic vision that to-day affects mankind. THE SEETHING NORTHWEST Edward Hungerford pictures the present industrial conditions in our northwestern states, where new radical theories are bitterly aligned against pioneer conservatism and independence. THE EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR Beginning with the October number, Edward Sandford Martin, editor of "Life," and one of the most brilliant of American essayists, will occupy the Easy Chair, which has been vacant since the death of Mr. Howells. UNUSUAL FICTION In addition to Margaret Deland's serial, "An Old Chester Secret," there will appear stories by Wilbur Daniel Steele, Stephen Leacock, Temple Bailey, and Philip Curtiss. "A Bird in the Handbook," by Frederick L. Allen-"Letters to Certain People of Importance: To a Doctor," by Winifred Kirkland-"Rares and Antiques," by Carolyn Wells-The Tragedy of Econ- HARPER'S MAGAZINE: Published Monthly; 40 cents a copy. $4.00 a Year. Issue of October, 1920. Serial Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, N. Y.; Clinton T. Brainard, President and Treasurer, Franklin JOHN GRANT DATER Square, New York, N. Y.; Henry Hoyns, Vice-President, Announcement of next month's issue HARPER'S MAGAZINE FOR NOVEMBER FAERY LANDS OF THE PACIFIC Out of the adventure of the Great War came two young Americans, James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff, who had done distinguished and hazardous service under both the American and French flags, but who were still eager for new experience-new sensations. The islands of the South Sea called them, and a year ago they vanished into these lands of mystery and romance. They have traveled in strange ways and among still stranger people. They have found their new adventure full of glamour and beauty. Only recently have they come in close enough to civilization to send back any account of their wanderings. This true story begins in the November Harper's. FRENCH OR AMERICAN MORALS-WHICH ARE BEST? Abbé Ernest Dimnet, Professor of English in the Collège Stanislas, Paris, has observed us with the keen, critical eyes of the Frenchman and the affectionate tolerance of a friend. He scrutinizes our morals, our manners and tastes, and does not hesitate to tell what he thinks are our defects. MOCCASINS IN MOTOR CARS It is a true story, but as astounding and humorous as an Arabian Nights tale, which William G. Shepherd relates of the trick Fate played on the Osage Indians when it burdened them with fortunes-won through oil in Oklahoma-which they don't know how to spend. OUR MINDS STILL IN THE CANDLE AGE Our minds to-day, declares James Harvey Robinson, are the direct outgrowth of the later Middle Ages. Our reliance on authority, our intolerance in dealing with new ideas, our prudishness, are all slight modifications of the spirit which made the medieval inquisitor. In science only have we gone ahead. FROM BURNE-JONES' SKETCH BOOK A Burne-Jones sketch book is a treasure almost beyond price. Recently one of these little books came into the hands of George S. Hellman, a New York collector. The sketches in it are studies for the famous picture, "The Mirror of Venus." They are of an exquisite delicacy and charm and have never before been reproduced. Their appearance in the November Harper's, with comment by Mr. Hellman, will make a sure appeal to all lovers of the beautiful. UNUSUAL FICTION There will be stories of an unusual type by Gordon Arthur Smith, Alice From a Burne-Jones Sketchbook. Comment by GEORGE S. HELLMAN Drawings in Tint The Girl in the Omnibus. A Story Illustrations by P. A. CARTER. GORDON ARTHUR SMITH 759 "Legs ts. Architects," by Clarence Day, Jr.-" Publishers and the Disappointed Author," by Richard 817 "The Caliph and the Reformers," by Malcolm La Prade; illustrated by the author. Drawings by W. O. Beginning with the December number the news-stand price of Harper's Magazine will be 45 cents a copy The Christmas HARPER'S HAIL, COLUMBIA! That is the title that W. L. GEORGE has given to his series of articles beginning in the Christmas Harper's. He is not writing a treatise on American life, he is setting down in his extraordinarily brilliant, incisive way his impressions of us and our institutions. He isn't interested in the obvious. He has traveled over the entire country before writing a line. He is a student of life, a trained observer. Critics everywhere have exclaimed, "How does he know so much about women?" You will wonder how he has found out so much that is true about you and the town you live in. IN PRAISE OF AMERICAN DRAMA William Archer, the distinguished British scholar and dramatic critic, denies the decay of the American drama, and comes gallantly to the defense of our stage to-day. He commends the recent work of various popular playwrights as a real contribution to dramatic literature. WHEN BRITONS AND HUNS KEPT CHRISTMAS TOGETHER Capt. Wilfrid Ewart, of the British Army, relates two astonishing incidents -hitherto suppressed by the War Office of how British and German frontline troops fraternized on two successive Christmas Days. ROBERT FROST'S LATEST POEMS A notable contribution to the poetry of the year will be a group of Robert Frost's latest poems to be published in the Christmas number. ARE WE AFRAID TO THINK? In only one direction-natural science-has the human mind dared to exert itself to its full capacity. Prof. James Harvey Robinson points out how our thinking in regard to war, politics, morals, property, and the like, is still warped by the Middle Ages. TWO ADVENTURERS IN THE SOUTH SEAS James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff record another chapter of their impressions of the beauty and exotic charm of the South Sea Islands-the lure and loneliness of remote atolls and the childlike races unspoiled by civilization. UNUSUAL SHORT STORIES by Mary Austin, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Clarence Day, Jr., Philip Curtiss, and Grace H. Flandrau. Many Pictures in Color and Tint |