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THE BOOKMAN ADVERTISER the Orient Where your steamer docks in a harbor dotted with sampans and ancient junks. Where you turn the corner and are back -beside the lotus ponds, among the temples and palaces that, for a thousand years, have been the wonder of the world. Where camel caravans wind down the streets, laden with ermine and sable; where the shops are piled high with silks and brocades; where jades are sold for a song. JAPAN IN 10 DAYS Then Shanghai, Hongkong Four magnificent Empresses-the largest, fastest and finest steamers on the Pacific. Wide decks, attractive staterooms and lounges. Music and dancing. And traveling companions-diplomats, explorers, officers, men and women with social and business connections throughout the East. A high standard of cuisine and service. Sailings every two weeks Canadian Pacific The World's Largest Offices in all large cities including THE CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORY Committee: Gerald H. Carson, Chairman; Henry S. 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She was born in Davenport, Iowa, in 1882, received her Ph.B. at Drake University, and took postgraduate work at the University of Chicago. She was at one time State House and legislative reporter on the "News" and the "Capital" in Des Moines. Her stories may be found in "Good Housekeeping", "The Ladies' Home Journal", "Harper's", and "Munsey's". REFERENCE: The Best Short Stories of 1919. JAMES HOPPER James Marie Hopper is another lawyer-writer on this list. He was born in Paris in 1876 and came to America in 1887. He was educated at the University of California, and admitted to the bar in 1900. He has been a reporter on San Francisco newspapers, instructor of French at the University of California, a member of the educational department in the Philippines, of the staff of "McClure's", and war correspondent for "Collier's" in France. Mr. Hopper contributes stories to "The Saturday Evening Post", "Collier's", and "The Woman's Home Companion". 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He has combined the careers of journalist, short story writer, and playwright, and is a member of the American Institute of Arts and Letters. His play "The Old Soak" proved exceedingly popular a couple of seasons back. At present he lives on Long Island and conducts a column on the New York "HeraldTribune". His short stories have appeared almost exclusively in "The Red Book". REFERENCE: The Literary Spotlight. John Farrar. DORAN ALICE DUER MILLER Alice Duer Miller was born in New York in 1874, married to Henry Wise Miller of that city in 1899, the year of her graduation from Barnard College, and still makes her home there. Her serial "Manslaughter", which ran in "The Saturday Evening Post" two years ago and was made into a motion picture, brought her forcibly to the attention of that portion of the public not already acquainted with her short stories. 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