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Lothrop Stoddard in his latest article departs from his usual discussion of politics and sociology to picture instead the experiences of a traveller in Turkey. Few people have had the patience and determination to penetrate to the present capital of the Turkish Nationalist Government, situated in remote Angora. The town is in central Asia Minor, and has been built out of the ruins of the ancient Greco-Roman city of Ancyra. Incidentally, Mr. Stoddard tells of the discouraging amount of red tape which to-day ties up foreign travel in the warridden countries.

Mildred Howells, daughter of William Dean Howells, is a poet of distinguished charm and rising fame. Her work has often appeared in this magazine.

Frederick Polley, an artist living in Indianapolis, has spent much time in sketching characteristic views of American cities, and in recording their atmosphere and local color through the medium of blackand-white. SCRIBNER'S has published three earlier series of his drawings, showing New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.

Samuel O. Dunn, who is an authority on all phases of the transportation question, has been editor of The Railway Age since 1908, and before that time journalist and railway editor associated with the Kansas City Journal and the Chicago Tribune. His three volumes cover the subject of railways from the most general to the most technical aspects; from questions of engineering to topics of investment and control. They are entitled: "The American Transportation Question," "Government Ownership of Railways," and "Railway Regulation and Ownership."

Will James, cowboy artist, is to publish a book of his drawings and articles within a few months. His romantic career has filled many a column in newspapers here and in California, where Charles K. Field, magazine editor, first discovered him and set him on his feet. The San Francisco Chronicle narrates his first encounter with

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about five years ago, with little money, few acquaintances, no job, and nothing to keep him going but the girl who was waiting for him in Reno and the unconquerable ambition to be an artist. The editors looked at his drawings-crude, rather hard things-Maynard Dixon called them 'iron drawings.' Very few city laymen could see much in them. There were two kinds of people who liked them-cowboys and rangers, who knew that they were faithful to the things depicted, and artists, who saw fidelity and also a promise of real talent behind them." At the suggestion of Field, James wrote captions for the drawings. He "wrote without the faintest knowledge of grammar, spelling, rhetoric, style, or niceties in words. Oddly enough, his direct, almost primitive, English was more forceful, colorful, and style-stamped

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presented in vignettes describing the most adventurous years of Stevenson's life, in which his writing took on its most mature and finished aspect. The final chapter contains details of his dramatic funeral which are here told for the first time. The articles are to be collected in a forthcoming volume, making an important addition to the growing literature concerning one of the bestloved of modern authors.

E.Newton Harvey, since 1919 professor of physiology at Princeton, has made several very interesting studies in modern biological research. He is particularly well. known for his experiments dealing with bioluminescence, and he succeeded in 1922 in producing a continuous cold light. This

W. Fletcher White has evolved a new technique in black-and-white, having spent several years in perfecting the process. His originals look like woodcuts, but are done by a method which he is not explaining for the present, and which employs India ink on white paper.

was done by extracting in almost pure form the luminous substance (luciferin) from the bodies of small crustaceans inhabiting the sea about Japan, by then introducing a "catalytic agent" which, without itself being impaired, could promote a continuous process by which the luciferin is made to unite with oxygen and give off rays of light without the formation of heat, after which the oxygen is separated from the luciferin. His volume, "The Nature of Animal Light," describes methods and results of some fascinating experiments.

Bernice L. Kenyon's first book of poetry, "Songs of Unrest," was published just a year ago, and received high praise from reviewers. She graduated from Wellesley in 1920, and has been doing editorial work in New York City ever since, and is now at work on a novel. Her poems have often appeared in SCRIBNER'S.

He says of his peculiar style that he aims for the impression of light drawn upon a dark background, since that is the way things are seen in reality. His drawings in this number illustrate the vigor of his conception and the success and originality of his method.

Carl Dreher writes of himself: "Partly because I spread my work over a number of fields, no one in the publishing business has ever heard of me. Your biographical paragraph might read:

Carl Dreher is an engineer and writer of

New York City. Most of his work is technical, but occasionally he ventures into fiction.' Further search discloses, besides much engineering material appearing under his name, some humorous stories in the New York Globe, at least one serious story, and several articles on such topics as "The Psychopathology of Decency" and "Emotional Determinism" in psychoanalytic and medical journals.

Professor Brander Matthews, who has held the chair of dramatic literature at Columbia for a great many years, is a familiar and valued contributor to SCRIBNER'S. The newspapers have lately given space to a discussion of the phenomenal success of foreign productions during this and the past season.

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press, a check-up of the plays now running in New York City shows that the proportion of American to foreign is still two to one, with successes on both sides of the

score.

W. Lee Dickson appears now for the first time in this magazine, though a few of his stories have been published elsewhere. He says that the short story form has only recently appealed to him, but that he believes it to be a lucky choice, because the first story he ever wrote was accepted, as were all subsequent ones.

Alice K. Hatch has been doing children's work in libraries for the past six years, and is now in the Cleveland Public Library.

Thomas Caldecot Chubb, of Llewellyn Park, Orange, New Jersey, graduated from Yale during the last year of the war. In the summer of 1920 he served as supercargo on the Atlantic Transport freighter Minnesota, making the round trip from New York to Tilbury Docks, London. In college he took part in various literary activities, was managing editor of The Lit, won the Cook Poetry Prize and the Masefield Poetry Prize, and had his first book of poems brought out by the Yale University Press. He is now writing a novel, and has been travelling and serving on the staff of Popular Radio.

Arthur Reed Kimball was associate editor and later business manager of the Waterbury American from 1881 to within a year or two ago. He was born in New York, went to Yale, and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1879, but soon took up journalism on The Iowa State Register, of Des Moines, where he was city editor for nine months. He is now officer and director in several brass corporations and two banks, and chairman of the national council of the Civil Service Reform Association.

Lewis Worthington Smith, since 1902 professor of English at Drake University, has edited a number of English classics and published a dozen or more volumes including text-books on English, collections of poetry, fiction, criticism, and drama. His

most recent book, "The Sky-Line in English Literature," was brought out in 1920. His home is in Des Moines, Iowa.

Professor William Lyon Phelps, according to a recently published account in The Forum, thinks he might write better if he did no teaching. He has taught for thirty-two consecutive years at Yale, and is sure that his teaching is bettered by his writing. When discussing his boyhood ambitions, he says: "I thought that the ideal life would be to work hard at some form of intellectual labor all morning, play hard at some violent athletic game in the afternoon, and enjoy some form of social pleasure in the evening; and, as it has turned out, this is the way I have spent my life. Not only do I enjoy intellectual work and athletic games and social pleasures more and more as I grow older, but I believe that the enjoyment of each one makes me enjoy the other two much more than I should otherwise. It is a combination of activities that I heartily recommend."

Royal Cortissoz has been art critic of the New York Tribune for more than a quarter of a century. His latest book, "American Artists," deals with the outstanding figures in American painting and with the modernist movement. The volume opens with an essay on beauty, which constitutes the author's profession of faith.

"From Immigrant to Inventor," by Michael Pupin, has received fine and appreciative mention in papers throughout the country. We quote from Edwin E. Slosson's review in the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post: "It is a great book, worthy to rank, in style and spirit, among the best that the twentieth century has so far produced. None of the new books is more infused with reverence and idealism than this, which is by no divine, but by the professor of electro-mechanics of Columbia University. There would be no better way of disproving the assertion of the fundamentalists that science and religion are incompatible . . . than for some philanthropist to get out a cheap edition of this book and circulate it broadcast throughout the country."