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THE READERS' INDEX

A GUIDE TO WHAT IS IN THE NOVEMBER MAGAZINES-LEADING ARTICLES-BEST FICTION-BOOKS AND BOOK TALK

AGRICULTURAL

FALL PLANTING TABLES FOR SOUTH AND NORTH, by P. J. Berckmans. Garden and Farming. Of value to planters.

HOW GERMANY MAKES FORESTRY PAY, by Frederic Blount Warren. Scientific American (Oct. 30). The way Germany has developed the best system of forest management and conservation.

IN THE SERVICE OF QUALITY, by Walter V. Woehlke. Outlook (Oct. 23). The care exercised in the raising and shipping of quality fruits.

MOON-FARMING, by Professor L. H. Bailey of Cornell. Independent (Oct. 21). The part the moon plays in the growth of crops and live stock.

OPEN-AIR ORCHARD HEATING IN COLORADO, by W. Frank McClure. Scientific American (Oct. 9).

work of Sir Moses Ezekiel, a Virginian who has been knighted by European monarchs.

CLASS IN WATER COLORS, by Rhoda Holmes Nicholls. Palette and Bench. A good lesson for water-color students.

CLASS IN OIL PAINTING, by Charles C. Curran. Palette and Bench. A lesson in landscape painting and the proper use of colors. HOW TO MODEL, by Charles J. Pike. Palette and Bench. How to begin, the tools, and every suggestion.

MAGAZINE AND BOOK ILLUSTRATION, by Corwin Knapp Linson. Palette and Bench. second article telling how to do it.

The

MASTER PAINTERS OF OLD HOLLAND, by Henry Tyrrell. Cosmopolitan. Some famous canvases in the Hudson-Fulton exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York City. SKETCHING FROM NATURE, by Florence Palette and Bench. It is about opaque water color on tinted paper. STEREOSCOPIC MOVING PICTURES IN NATURAL COLORS. Scientific American (Oct. 9). The efforts being made to produce moving pictures in their natural tints, the machines in use, and while the effect is as yet imperfect there is hope for perfection.

Frances Snell. $3,000,000 worth of fruit saved from Jack Frost, the temperature being raised nine degrees by the use of smudge_pots.

THE FOREST'S GUARDIAN, by Day Allen Willey. Putnam's. About Gifford Pinchot, the National Forester.

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THE STORY OF THE MORGAN HORSE, by Howard Betts Rathbone. Country Life America. How the "Morgan" has been bred and brought to its present_efficiency.

TO PUT AN END TO HOG CHOLERA, by Harry F. Kohr. Technical World. The disease loses from twenty to thirty-five million dollars to the United States annually.

WANTED--BRAVE YOUNG MEN, by M. Beverley Buchanan. Technical World. The demand for men to protect Uncle Sam's 195,000,000 acres of national forest area.

WHAT ENGLAND CAN TEACH US ABOUT WALL GARDENING, by Wilhelm Miller. Country Life in America. A message for those who have to do with sloping land and who wish to protect fruit from thieves.

ART

AN EASY LESSON IN STENCILING, by Mary P. Bradley. Suburban Life. Of interest to those engaged in art work.

AN AMERICAN MEDICI, by Gardner Teall. Putnam's. It is mainly about J. Pierpont Morgan's art collections.

AN AMERICAN SCULPTOR IN ROME, by Katharine H. Wrenshall, World's Work. The

STYLE IN AMERICAN COMIC ART. Strand. A talk on cartoons and cartoonists, with illustrations.

THE DUTCH MASTERS. Outlook (Oct. 23). Paintings of famous artists on exhibition for the Hudson-Fulton celebration at the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH THE VERY SMALL CAMERA, by Dr. Nathan T. Beers. Suburban Life. A great many things can be done enough to make the small camera seem like a large one.

ART IN THE MARKET PLACE, by Edward Hale Brush. World Today. A new aspect of the city beautiful movement.

BEST MAGAZINE FICTION

THE MAN FROM HOME. Green Book. A novelization of the popular play by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson.

A LITTLE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, by Constance D'Arcy Mackay. St. Nicholas. A little play for young folks, written after the manner of a morality play.

THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE, by E, Phillips Op

penheim. Cosmopolitan. The beginning of
one of his popular serial stories.

THE AMERICAN EMPEROR, by George Ran-
dolph Chester. Cosmopolitan. The fifth in
the ring of short romances of finance known
as "The Cash Intrigue."

THE MAGNATE OF PARADISE, by Mary Imlay
Taylor. Lippincott's. A complete novel of
peculiar interest.

THE ROMANCE OF AN AMERICAN DUCHESS,
by Demetra and Kenneth Brown. Smart Set.
A complete novel dealing with the life of an
American girl who marries a French duke
and goes to live in an old chateau.

THE SAME OLD THING, by Roi Cooper
Megrue. Smart Set. A one-act play suit-
able for amateur presentation.

ON A HOTEL BALCONY, by George Madden
Martin. Everybody's. Two men and a girl
at a Pacific Coast hotel.

THE LASH OF HONOR, by Olin L. Lyman.
Everybody's. A natural story with natural
people in it.

A MUNICIPAL REPORT, by O. Henry. Hamp-
ton's. One of his clever stories, the scene
and characters being Southern.

GOLDILOCKS, by Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke.
Hampton's. A little story about a little girl.
THE CHALCHIHUITL STONE, by Edwin Bal-
mer and William B. MacHarg, Hampton's.
Another of the remarkable achievements of
Luther Trant, psychological detective.

THE NEW WOMAN AND THE OLD, by Anne
Warner. Century. A humorous presenta-
tion of two views of the marriage question.

THE AMERICAN, by George Phillips. Cen-
tury. The transformation of a little Italian.
THE CREATORS, by May Sinclair. Century.
The beginning of a new novel described as
a comedy.

MILLINGTON'S MOTOR MYSTERY, by Ellis
Parker Butler. Century. One of his funny
stories.

A CHARACTER PART, by Julie M. Lippman.
Century. A clever story of the stage.

NEW TALES OF THE ROAD, by Charles N.
Crewdson. Success. Stories of the commer-
cial traveler.

THE EXPERIENCE OF MRS. PATTERSON-
GRUNDY, by Morley Roberts. Strand. An
English society story.

FRIENDS IN NEED, by W. W. Jacobs. Strand.
One of his good humorous sketches.

THE TIGER CHARM, by Alice Perrin. Mc-
Clure's. A little romantic story.

SERGEANT MCCARTY'S MISTAKE, by P. C.
Macfarlane. McClure's. A policeman's
blunder.

THE CRACKAJACK STORY, by Harold Kel-
lock. McClure's. A newspaper sketch with
plenty of big daily paper atmosphere.

SIMON THE JESTER, by William J. Locke.
American. The beginning of a good serial.

PHOEBE AND HER OTHER SELF, by Inez
Haynes Gillmore. American. A young girl
reads much and the effect of it.

THE SON OF OLD STRAIGHT, by Berenice
Fearn Young. American. A homely story
of war times.

TOGO TALES, by Wallace Irwin. American.
Humorous adventures of Ripped Van Wrinkles
and Hon. Rob Crusoe.

A CHARMED LIFE, by Richard Harding Da-
vis. Scribner's. A love story of the Spanish
war, the hero being a war correspondent.

THE ANCESTRAL DWELLINGS, by Dr. Henry
van Dyke. Scribner's. One of his good

poems.

THE WINNING LADY, by Mary E. Wilkins
Freeman. Harper's. It has to do with the
playing for prizes.

MOLLUSK OR SUFFRAGETTE, by Elizabeth
Overstreet Cuppy. Putnam's. A clever one
act play.

THE LITTLE ROMANCE, by Norman Duncan.
Harper's. A tale out of season, the time be-
ing Christmas Eve.

A TRUE HERO: MELODRAMA, by W. D.
Howells. Harper's. One of his delightful
short plays.

THE RISE OF THE HOUSE OF LANDIS, by Fred-
erick Walworth Brown. Pearson's. An ad-
venture of the sea and shipwreck on an
island.

WHENCE AND WHITHER, by Ruth McEnery
Stuart. Pearson's. A good negro sketch.
THE ADVENTURES OF MR. PETER RUFF, by
E. Phillips Oppenheim. Pearson's. You
know this writer's stories.

SHORT-CIRCUITED, by John Fleming Wilson.
Pacific Monthly. A professor and student

story.

HEWERS, by Elizabeth Lambert Wood. Pa-
cific Monthly. A tale of the Oregon woods.
THE PADRE'S GAMECOCK, by Edwin H.
Clough. Sunset. A tale of rival houses.

THE SAGEBRUSH SORT, by Billee Glynn. Sun-
set. A Western love story.

THE WRONG THING, by Rudyard Kipling.
Delineator. The third of this remarkable
series.

THE LITTLE WOMAN AND THE BUSY MAN,
by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd. Ladies' Home
Journal. A story of married troubles.

HIS OLD SWEETHEARTS, by Mrs. George T.
Palmer. Ladies' Home Journal. A thirty-
minute parlor play.

THE ADVENTURES OF A SUBURBANITE, by El-
lis Parker Butler. Country Life in America.
A humorous sketch, this time about the trou-
bles over a speckled hen.

EDUCATIONAL

A BETTER WAY IN EDUCATION, by Dr. A. R.
Baker. Designer. He would make many
changes, which he thinks would help our edu-
cational problem.

A SIMPLIFIED METHOD OF TEACHING EX-
PERIMENTAL PHYSICS, by Jacques Boyer. Sci-
entific American (Oct. 23). A new method
employed in the colleges of France.

CHILDREN'S GARDENS EVERYWHERE, by El-

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GREAT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, by Edwin E. Slosson. Independent (Oct. 7). This is the tenth in the series and describes Cornell. The University of Illinois and Cornell are of the same age and size; the latter is frequently called a state university in the East, and the number of students has grown from 1229 in 1888 to 3980 in 1908.

KENTUCKY'S FIGHT FOR AN EDUCATION, by Delineator. Mable Potter Daggett. The awakening in this state and what it means to education.

MY IDEAL OF THE TRUE UNIVERSITY, by President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton. Delineator. He says that it should insure the awakening of the whole man.

NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES OF SUBURBAN SCHOOLS, by O. J. Kern. Suburban Life. A number of useful things they might do.

OUR NEW COLLEGE PRESIDENTS, by Arthur B. Reeve. Munsey's. Sketches and comparisons. TECHNICAL EDUCATION, by Julian Smallwood. Cassier's. What is being done and the good of it.

THE COTTON TAX AND SOUTHERN EDUCATION, by David Y. Thomas. North American Review. A plea for a better adjustment of that tax, with a suggestion that the sixtyeight million dollars collected during the war be returned to the cotton states.

THE INHERITANCE OF ABILITY, by Professor Charles S. Minot of Harvard. Youth's Companion (Sept. 30). He claims that ability of every kind is largely inherited.

THE ALLIANCE ISRAELITE, by Dr. Abram S. Isaacs. Independent (Oct. 14). The visit of the members of the Turkish Parliament to the Alliance Israelite Universelle in Paris.

VENERABLE TRINITY SCHOOL, by William Inglis. Harper's Weekly (Oct. 2). History of this institution, founded by William Huddlestone in 1709 to train youths of Dutch families.

THE NEW YORK PLAN FOR ZOOLOGICAL PARKS, by W. T. Hornaday. Scribner's. The development of the greatest zoological park in the world.

WAT IS A COLLEGE FOR? by President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton. Scribner's. He confines himself to the lines along which he has been writing and talking.

FINANCIAL

THE KING OF FINANCE, by Gutzon Borglum. Everybody's. "The King of Finance" is a composite portrait, requiring the work of six

THE BEET-SUGAR ROUND-UP, by Charles P. Cosmopolitan. More about the Sugar Trust, in which is outlined the methods employed by Henry O. Havemeyer to dominate the beet-sugar industry.

GROVER

HISTORICAL

CLEVELAND, by Richard Watson Gilder. Century. The last of "a record of friendship" series consisting of a group of letters.

FRONTIER DAY AT CHEYENNE, by Ivah Dunklee. World Today. The annual celebration and the changes taking place in the sports of the occasion.

HUDSON'S FARTHEST WEST, by Alfred Henry Lewis. Cosmopolitan. His journey from Holland to America and up the river which bears his name.

HUMAN NATURE UNDER FIRE, by Will Irwin. Success. Some stories of the San Francisco earthquake.

JEANNE D'ARC OF THE FLAMING SWORD. St. Nicholas. The story of the peasant girl of France.

LANDEGON, by William Gilmore Beymer. Harper's. Third article in the historical series dealing with the scouts and spies of the Civil War.

LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG, by Wayne MacVeagh. Century. The story of the memorable speech told by a man who heard it.

THE AMERICAN WOMAN, by Ida M. Tarbell. American. An historical sketch of the women who figured in the early making of the nation.

THE BANDIT HUNTERS, by T. R. Porter. Wide World. Holding up trains in the West and how the robbers were captured.

THE CRUCIBLE OF MODERN THOUGHT, by Thomas H. Cuyler. Progress Magazine. The third paper, dealing with the influence of Ancient Greece.

THE FAIRY-TALE CASTLE, by Mrs. Herbert Vivian. Wide World. The castle near Marienbad now known as the Hotel Rubezahl.

THE GREAT FEUDS OF KENTUCKY, by James M. Ross. Wide World. The famous Hatfield-McCoy feud and how it terminated. THE HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION, by Frank Marshall White. Outlook (Oct. 23). Å description with pictures of the night displays.

THE MODERN ICARUS, by John Elfreth Watkins. Scientific American (Oct. 2). An account of the people who have attempted to fly since the beginning of time.

WINE MAKERS WHO ARE CLIFF DWELLERS, by Katharine Metcalf Roof. Travel. A little cliff-dweller information not generally known.

INDUSTRIAL

CHINA, by Stephen Bonsal. Metropolitan.
It is described as the world's market place.
DAY LABORERS BEFORE THEIR TIME, by
Lewis W. Hine. Outlook (Oct. 23). Boys
going to work at a tender age and what may
be expected of them.

ERECTION OF THE FADES VIADUCT. Scien-
tific American (Oct. 9). A piece of note-
worthy bridge construction work in France,
the noteworthy features being the extreme
height of the masonry pillars and the length
of the central span.

THE HERITAGE OF THE WEST, by Richard A.
Haste. Progress Magazine. A discussion of
almost everything left in the far Western
country.

FIRE PROTECTION FOR THE COUNTRY HOUSE,
by Claude H. Miller. Country Life in
America. How to build to prevent fires and
what to do in case they occur.

FEROCITY OF FOREST FIRES, by Day Allen
Willey. Pacific Monthly. The damage done
and the difficulties encountered in fighting
them.

FROM THE BOTTOM UP, by Alexander Ir-
vine. World's Work. His first struggles in
America.

HIGH EXPLOSIVES AS USED IN MANUFACTUR-
ING ARTS, by J. Emile Blomen. Technical
World. The strange and dangerous side of
things we use every day and think nothing
about.

HIGHWAYS OF PROGRESS, by James J. Hill.
World's Work. This first article is on what
we must do to be fed, taking up the rising
prices and the food shortage in a land of
plenty.

How AMERICA SUPPLIES THE WORLD WITH
FISH, by Felix J. Koch. National Food Mag-
azine. Some facts that are not generally
known.

HOW THE FREIGHT CARS GET HOME, by
William Hard. Technical World.
The sys-
tem by which the cars are returned to the
roads that own them.

HUGE DAM OF THE SHOSHONE, by Len G.
Shaw. Technical World. One of the great
undertakings in the government's reclama-
tion work and how it is being accomplished.
IRON, COAL AND SHIPPING INDUSTRIES OF
JAPAN, by T. Good. Cassier's. The extent
and the place it gives that country in the
commercial world.

MOVING A MOUNTAIN IN UTAH. Scientific
American (Oct. 16). Dealing with some in-
teresting mining operations.

NORWAY'S NEW MOUNTAIN RAILWAY, by
Alice M. Ivimy. Technical World. The most
remarkable work of building the railroad
from Bergen to Christiana.

PANAMA, by Forbes-Lindsay. Independent
(Oct. 21). He discusses it as a field for
American enterprise.

PLANNING A WORLD METROPOLIS, by Henry
M. Hyde. Technical World. The proposed

plan for the beautification and the making
over of Chicago.

ROAD BUILDING AND MAINTENANCE, by
Ernest Flagg. Century. With examples of
French and English methods.

SAVING THE AMERICAN LOBSTER, by P. Har-
vey Middleton. Scientific American (Oct. 16).
The hatcheries, and how the lobster is de-
veloped.

SPIKING DOWN AN EMPIRE, by William
Hard. Everybody's. The building of Can-
ada's new farthest-North railway.

THE MAN OF FIFTY, by Forbes Lindsay.
Harper's Weekly (Oct. 16). The world be-
lieves that a man past fifty has seen his best
days, while history proves that the great
things have been accomplished by men nearer
to fifty than to thirty-five.

THE LAST NORTHWEST, by John Foster Carr.
Outlook (Oct. 23). The far West and its
wonderful growth and advancement.
THE MISTAKES OF A YOUNG RAILROAD
TELEGRAPH OPERATOR, by Harry Bedwell.
American. And some of the experiences

which grew out of them.

WOMEN WHO WORK FOR A LIVING, by Jo-
seph A. Hill. Youth's Companion (Oct. 28).
Some interesting statistics.

IN THE PUGET SOUND COUNTRY, by Bailey
Millard. Sunset. Description and the activ-
ity in this new and rich country.

RAISING A CROP OF LIVE JEWELS, bv Win-
throp Packard. Technical World. The rais-
ing of and the making a business of butter-
flies.

NEW YORK, by Harrison Rhodes. Harper's.
He describes it as a city of romance.

LITERARY

EMERSON, by W. C. Brownell. Scribner's.
A masterly study of the great philosopher
and essayist.

JOSEPH PULITZER, by William Brown Me-
loney. American. The story of the blind
editor of the New York World.

MRS. HUMPHREY WARD'S REAL PEOPLE, by
Charles S. Olcott. Outlook (Oct. 23). Third
article discussing the originals from which
the novelist drew her characters.

SENSATIONAL JOURNALISM AND THE REMEDY,
by S. W. Pennypacker. North American Re-
view. He condemns the sensational press and
condemns the practice of wealthy citizens buy-
ing newspapers to use them for their own
selfish ends.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AT HOME, by Marion
Harland. Woman's Home Companion. One
of her literary pilgrimages.

THE GATEWAYS OF LITERATURE, by Profes-
sor Brander Matthews. North American Re-
view. On literary culture.

THE NOVELS OF BJORNSON, by Professor
William Lyon Phelps of Yale. Independent
(Sept. 30). A sketch of his life and an
analysis of his writings.

MEDICAL AND HEALTH

A HOME IN A TREE TOP, by William Lord Wright. Wide World. Living in the top of a tree as a cure for tuberculosis.

AN ANTITOXIN FOR FATIGUE, by F. W. Eastman. Harper's. He explains what fatigue is, how it acts and what may be done for it.

'FRISCO'S FIGHT WITH BUBONIC PLAGUE, by William Colby Rucker. Technical World. What is being done in the way of cleaning the city and killing rats to keep the plague from our midst.

HEREDITARY CRIMINALITY AND ITS CERTAIN A CURE, by Warren W. Foster. Pearson's. most complete analysis of the criminal and what may be done to stamp out his tendency to do wrong.

HOPE FOR THE VICTIMS OF NARCOTICS, by Dr. Alexander Lambert of Cornell. Success. A new treatment that will obliterate the craving.

How I EXPECT TO LIVE LONG, by Wu TingFang. Ladies' Home Journal. His plan of diet, mastication and breathing.

How I WAS BORN AGAIN AT TWENTY-FOUR, by Rev. Thomas Carson Hanna. Ladies' Home Journal. The remarkable case of the author, in which, on account of an accident, at the age of twenty-four he had to learn to do everything as though he were a baby.

HOW THE GREAT PRESERVE HEALTH, by H. Mitchell Watchett. Physical Culture. About prominent people and what they do to maintain physical and mental vigor.

MENTAL SUGGESTION IN THE SICK ROOM, by J. Alexander Fisk. Progress Magazine. The effect of it.

PELLAGRA, THE MEDICAL MYSTERY OF ToDAY, by Marion Hamilton Carter. McClure's. The disease that is caused by eating spoiled corn, and it is more to be dreaded than smallpox or leprosy.

THE CONVENIENT AND SANITARY KITCHEN, by Louis Howe. Suburban Life. How every home may have one.

THE DOCTOR OF THE FUTURE, by Dr. Woods Hutchinson. Ladies' Home Journal. How he will prevent sickness instead of, as now, curing it.

THE UTILITY OF LACTIC MICROBES, by Elie Metchnikoff. Century. With explanation of the author's views on longevity.

MUSIC AND DRAMA

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MY REMINISCENCES, by Enrico Caruso. Strand. The famous tenor tells of his struggles and his triumphs.

RACHEL IN AMERICA, by Charles De Kay. Century. The tender and charming side of the great actress.

RITA SACCHETTO, by Emily N. Burbank. Putnam's. The great dancer who comes to this country this season for the first time. SOME SUCCESSFUL WOMAN PLAYWRIGHTS, by Caroline Wetherell. New Idea Woman's Magazine. Who they are and what they have written.

"SUCH A LITTLE QUEEN," by Channing Pollock. Current Literature. An outline and much of the dialogue of one of the new and successful plays of the season.

THE ACTORS' COLONY IN COHASSET. Theatre. The homes of a number of well-known actors. THE ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC, by Daniel Gregory Mason. Outlook (Oct 30). The part the listener plays.

"THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR," by Lucy France Pierce. World Today. An outline of the comedy by J. Hartley Manners.

THE INTERESTING TETRAZZINI, by Margel Gluck. Designer. Something about the famous opera singer.

THE NATIONAL QUALITY OF THE MUSIC OF FINLAND, by Maria O. Mieler. Craftsman. Of interest to those interested in music.

THE BUSINESS SIDE OF THE THEATRE, by Hartley Davis. Everybody's. The well-oiled machinery that keeps the theatre running smoothly.

THE DRAMA A SOCIOLOGICAL FORCE, by Shirley Burns. Green Book. The value of the "show" as a teaching force in the betterment of humanity.

THE DRAMATIST AND THE THEATRE, by Brander Matthews. Century. An historical and critical essay, scholarly as well as popular in its appeal.

THE HISTORY OF A FAMOUS THEATRE, by Magda Frances West. Green Book. The extraordinary record of McVicker's Theatre in Chicago.

THE NEW DRAMA AND THE NEW THEATRE, by William Archer. McClure's. The promise of better things is in it.

THE NEW THEATRE, by John Corbin. Outlook (Oct. 23). Description of the playhouse which has created world-wide interest, and which is to be opened in New York this month.

THE OLD AND NEW ORDER ON THE Stage, by Adolph Klauber. Pearson's. The changes that have taken place in the last few years.

THE PASSING OF CLYDE FITCH, by Johnson Briscoe. Green Book. The career of the late popular dramatist.

UNDER THE WATER WITH SUBMARINE ACTORS, by Wendell Phillips Dodge. Theatre. With the supernumeries who go under the water at the New York Hippodrome.

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