Chapter I: Front Matter

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This e-text is based on ‘The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine,’
from October, 1913. The table of contents, based on the index
from the May issue, has been added by the transcriber.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been retained, but
punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected. Passages
in English dialect and in languages other than English have
not been altered. The footnote has been moved to the end of the
corresponding article.

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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
than a stalled ox and hatred therewith

Proverbs XV. 17

From the painting in water color by Edmund Dulac]

~The Century Magazine~

~Vol. LXXXVI~ OCTOBER, 1913 ~No. 6~

Copyright, 1913, by ~The Century Co.~ All rights reserved.

CONTENTS

PAGE

~Americans, New-Made.~ Drawings by _W. T. Benda_ Facing page 894

~Auto-Comrade, The~ _Robert Haven Schauffler_ 850

~Cartoons.~
Died: Rondeau Rymbel. _Oliver Herford_ 955
A Triumph for the Fresh Air Fund. _F. R. Gruger_ 957
Newport Note. _Reginald Birch_ 960

~Casus Belli.~ 955

~Devil, The, his Due~ _Philip Curtiss_ 895

~Dinner of Herbs,” “Better is a.~
Picture by _Edmund Dulac_
Facing page 801

~Garage in the Sunshine, A~ _Joseph Ernest_ 921
Picture by Harry Raleigh.

~“Ghosts,” “Dey Ain’t No”~ _Ellis Parker Butler_ 837
Pictures by Charles Sarka.

~Home.~ I. An Anonymous Novel. 801
Illustrations by Reginald Birch.

~Homer and Humbug.~ _Stephen Leacock_ 952

~Nemours: A Typical French Provincial
Town.~ _Roger Boutet de Monvel_ 844
Pictures by Bernard Boutet de
Monvel.

~Paderewski at Home.~ _Abbie H. C. Finck_ 900
Picture from a portrait by
Emil Fuchs.

~Paris.~ _Theodore Dreiser_ 904
Pictures by W. J. Glackens.

~Progressive Party, The~ _Theodore Roosevelt_ 826
Portrait of the author.

~Sculpture.~ _Charles Keck_ 917

~Senior Wrangler, The~ 958
Snobbery--America vs. England.
Our Tender Literary Celebrities.

~Summer Hills,” the, In “The
Circuit of~ _John Burroughs_ 878
Portrait of the author by Alvin
L. Coburn.

~Sunset on the Marshes.~ From the
painting by _George Inness_
Facing page 824

~Trade of the World Papers, The~ _James Davenport Whelpley_
XVIII. The Foreign Trade of the
United States 886

~T. Tembarom.~ _Frances Hodgson Burnett_ 929
Drawings by Charles S. Chapman.

~White Linen Nurse, The~ _Eleanor Hallowell Abbott_ 857
Pictures, printed in tint, by
Herman Pfeifer.

~Year, The Most Important~ _Editorial_ 951

VERSE

~Beggar, The~ _James W. Foley_ 877

~Emergency.~ _William Rose Benét_ 916

~Husband Shop, The~ _Oliver Herford_ 956
Picture by Oliver Herford.

~Mother, The~ _Timothy Cole_ 920
Picture by Alpheus Cole.

~Myself,” “I Sing of~ _Louis Untermeyer_ 960

~Parents, Our~ _Charles Irvin Junkin_ 959
Pictures by Harry Raleigh.

~Socratic Argument.~ _John Carver Alden_ 960

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