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Contributors to the December Atlantic

Jean Kenyon Mackenzie ("Black Sheep") went out some years ago, as a young woman, to take part in the missionary work of the Presbyterian Church in the German colony of Kamerun, on the west coast of Africa, a district which is now figuring in the newspaper reports as the scene of terrific fighting. Miss Mackenzie's letters to her family and friends at home which, it is hardly necessary to say, are entirely authentic will continue in the January Atlantic.

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Meredith Nicholson ("The Boulevard of Rogues") is a novelist and essayist of popularity and distinction, whose most recent contribution to this magazine, a pleasant and stimulating paper entitled “The Open Season for American Novelists," was published in October.

Sarah N. Cleghorn ("Poems on Immortality") is an accomplished essayist and poet of Vermont, who has been a frequent Atlantic contributor for some years.

Francis Greenwood Peabody ("This Younger Generation"), for many years Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard, is now living in retirement in Cambridge.

Charles Fitzhugh Talman ("Accents Wild"), a new Atlantic contributor, sends this diacritic protest from the United States Weather Bureau at Washington. The attention of all amateur proof-readers is invited to this article.

Baron Paul Henri Benjamin D'Estournelles De Constant (“America's Duty") is perhaps the most noted of all the world's peace advocates. Educated for diplomacy, he became in succession member of the French Parliament, member of two Hague Conferences, and finally member of the Hague Court. His record as a consistent and passionate lover of peace, who still felt that his own country has no recourse but to arms, led to an invitation from the Atlantic to write this article.

Ralph Barton Perry ("What is Worth Fighting For?") is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He was represented in the Atlantic for September, 1914, by an essay on "The Useless Virtues."

Lewis R. Freeman ("The Fight for the Garden of Eden") is a journalist whose enterprise has made him familiar with remote quarters of the earth. In Palestine and Arabia he has spent much time and made many investigations. Our regular readers will remember his agreeable paper, "A Day in Babylon" (November, 1913).

William Austin Smith ("Some False Consolations of War"), formerly rector of Christ Church at Springfield, Massachusetts, has contributed to the Atlantic in past years several essays of thoughtful character and original turn.

George Brandes ("A Scandinavian View of the War"), famous the world over as a man of letters and as the critic and interpreter of Shakespeare, is in his native Denmark an eminent and respected publicist. The Atlantic invited him to write this paper on account of his northern coign of vantage.

However much Americans may wish the war would stop, or that 1t had never started, nevertheless it is the most tremendous and thrilling event that has touched this generation, and people need and demand to know about it. And whatever other wartime books you may read, you cannot afford to miss reading the two named below.

A General Survey THE NOTE-BOOK OF AN ATTACHÉ

By ERIC FISHER WOOD

A general survey of Europe at war during the first seven months, with an appendix containing authoritative information as to infantry, field artillery, aeroplanes, trenches, etc., written by one who saw what he reports. Vivid, comprehensive, scrupulously accurate.

The author (out of Yale in 1910 with two degrees) was studying architecture at the Beaux Arts in Paris when the war broke out. Putting himself at the service of the American Embassy, he carried despatches all over Europe, interviewed many notabilities, visited battlefields, helped take care of interned Teutons, organized ambulance corps.— everywhere and all the time gathering information.

"Correspondents in all their glory went and came, seeing nothing. Here is the man who was there, who saw all that one man had time to see of the greatest moments of the present times, who was able to tell what he saw. He had the calm and courage to keep his eye at work on startling occasions when most men's senses would shy or bolt. He was cool enough to observe, yet impressionable enough to appreciate. And so he has written a book not likely to be duplicated." — New York Evening Sun.

5th printing. 15 illustrations.

Price $1.60 net

France in Arms

PARIS
REBORN

By HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS

Author of "The New Map of Europe”

An extended diary, written day by day in Paris during the first five months of the war, and reflecting freshly and spontaneously all the events and fluctuations of those exciting days. The mobilization, the panic of the tourists, the foreign volunteers, the spy-panic, the boy scouts, the stupidities of the censorship, the aeroplane attacks, the siege preparations, the sudden rebirth of religious feeling - how Paris looked, how she took the good and the bad news these and as many other great events and phases of an historic moment appear in a setting of conversation, rumors, sudden elations and disappointments, scraps of dialogue, amusing personal incidents flutter of the populace, the life of the hour. And steadily, during the course of the breathless narrative, one gains a sense of the tragic significance of these events, in the midst of which the spirit of Paris has been born again.

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A special word should be said for the sixteen full-page illustrations in tint, done by Lester G. Hornby, the etcher, who was with the author during the time covered by the book.

Price $2.00 net.

BOTH FREE UPON APPLICATION TO THE PUBLISHERS

The Century Co.'s Illustrated Holiday Catalogue of its new and standard books THE CENTURION, an Illustrated Monthly Magazine dealing with The Century Co. writers and their work

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