JOHN H. FINLEY, whose service as Commissioner of the American Red Cross in Palestine and the Near East led to the writing of his interesting volume, A Pilgrim in Palestine, is peculiarly fitted to disclose the meaning that troubled land has for all the world at this season. Mr. Finley is now Associate Editor of The New York Times. MARY-LAPSLEY CAUGHEY is welcomed again to THE REVIEW. Miss Caughey is now doing graduate work at Bryn Mawr. JOSEPH AUSLANDER is an instructor at Harvard University, which was his Alma Mater. His verse has appeared in numerous periodicals. JOSEPH COLLINS, the eminent neurologist, is the author of Diseases of the Brain, The Way with the Nerves, Sleep and the Sleepless, and My Italian Year. WILLIS BOYD ALLEN is a graduate of Harvard University, and a well-known lawyer of Boston. In the leisure hours from his profession he has written many volumes. The most recent are Gold Hunter of Alaska and The Violet Book. CORNELIA J. CANNON (Mrs. Walter B. Cannon) is a graduate of Radcliffe College. Her essay in this issue is indicative of a skilled observer who is philosopher as well. JOHN COTTON DANA has been Librarian of the Newark Public Library since 1902. It is as a Librarian that he discusses in the present essay the changes in habits of reading. STARK YOUNG, formerly Professor of English at Amherst College, is now one of the editors of The New Republic. CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE JOHN ERSKINE, Professor of English at Columbia University, is author of many volumes, notable among which are Interpretation of Literature, Life and Literature, and Books and Habits. He was part editor of the Cambridge History of American Literature. His present article is the first of a series of five on timely and vital literary topics, which will appear in consecutive numbers of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. BRUNO ROSELLI is Professor of Italian at Vassar College. During the war he served as Captain in the Italian Army, winning great distinction. He has contributed to numerous periodicals here and abroad. MARGARET PRESCOTT MONTAGUE, the well-known writer, has made many friends through her familiar volumes, Closed Doors, The Gift, and her famous war story, England to America. FREDERICK DIXON, Editor of The International Interpreter, is an Englishman by birth, and in addition to his editorial duties contributes frequently to the English publications. His paper in this issue is the fourth in the series on World Restoration which has appeared in THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. CHANG HSIN-HAI is a graduate student at Harvard University. He has set forth in the present paper some aspects of Confucianism as accepted by the Chinese and as influencing their attitude toward the world. WILLIAM D. RITER, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, is a graduate of the University of Utah, and of Columbia Law School. He served in the Philippines in the Spanish war, and has been a member of the O. R. C. since the World War. He has been President of the Utah State Bar Association. ROBERT BRIDGES was made Poet Laureate in 1913. He is now Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is a physician as well as a poet and formerly held important positions in the different London Hospitals. His essay on Milton's Prosody, together with Demeter, A Masque, The Spirit of Man, and his French and English Anthology are familiar to American readers. FREDERICK PETERSON, the distinguished alienist, in addition to the numerous volumes he has written on phases of his profession, has found leisure to publish such books as Poems and Swedish Translations, In the Shade of Ygdrasil, and Chinese Lyrics. CONSTANCE LINDSAY SKINNER has won distinction as poet and historian. Her Pioneers of the Old Southwest and Adventures of Oregon in the Chronicles of America series are reckoned as of first-rate importance. JEANNETTE MARKS, Professor in English at Mount Holyoke College, is widely known for her successful books and plays, which include those that won the Welsh National Theatre Prize, Merry, Merry Cuckoo and Welsh Honeymoon. ALICE LOTHIAN . is the pen name of an accomplished English writer living in Scotland. STARK YOUNG, formerly Professor of English at Amherst College, is one of the editors of The Theatre Arts Magazine and a contributing editor to The New Republic. His most recent volume is entitled Three Plays. CAROLINE E. MACGILL has been Instructor in Economics in the University of Wiscon sin, and for many years on the research and editorial staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Besides contributions to magazines and other special articles, she is the author and editor of The History of Transportation in the United States to 1860, published by the Carnegie Institution in 1917. MARGARET PINCKNEY ALLEN, the prize-winner in a "best letter about books" contest offered by The New York Sun, is a frequent contributor to numerous periodicals. SELDEN PEABODY DELANY is Associate Rector of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York. He is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Western Theological Seminary at Chicago. The Ideal of Christian Worship, The Prayer Book, and Christian Practice are among his published works. Mr. Delany is editor of The American Church Monthly. THE REV. DR. S. PARKES CADMAN, born in England and educated at Richmond College, London University, has for many years ranked among the foremost religious leaders of America. In addition to his thousands of sermons and lectures he has written Charles Darwin and Other English Thinkers, Life of William Owen, Ambassadors of God, and other noteworthy books. His breadth of scholarship and catholicity of thought make him an appropriate spokesman for Protestant churches in general in the series of articles on World Restoration. WILLIAM STARR MYERS, Professor of Politics at Princeton, and formerly at Johns Hopkins, author of Socialism and American Ideals, is recognized as one of the keenest of observers and most authoritative of critics of current political affairs. JOHN CORBIN, essayist, critic, novelist and dramatist, author of Which College for the Boy? Husband, The Forbidden Guests, The Edge, etc., is a searching student of social economic subjects such as that which he discusses in this issue. REAR-ADMIRAL W. F. FULLAM, U.S.N., retired, was graduated at the head of his class at Annapolis, had a distinguished career of forty-six years of active service, including the Spanish War and the World War; was Commandant of the Naval Academy; and is the author of several important treatises on gunnery and other military topics. CAPTAIN ROY CAMPBELL SMITH, U.S.N., an Annapolis graduate, served in the Spanish War, and at Vera Cruz, Mexico; was Naval Attaché at Paris and St. Petersburg, and Governor and Naval Commandant of Guam. He is an officer of the Legion of Honor, and gold medallist of the U. S. Naval Institute. CAPTAIN J. M. SCAMMELL, Inf. O.R.C., was, before the World War, a Teaching Fellow in Anthropology and Assistant in History at the University of California. He served overseas as an officer of the “Wild West" 91st Division, and had practical personal experience in gas warfare. a graduate of Columbia University and the General Theo- HERBERT FRANCIS SHERWOOD has for many years been a careful student of social and eco- FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER was educated at Rollins College, Florida; gained lyric in- LEONORA SPEYER has already published numerous poems, but now makes her EDITH FRANKLIN WYATT, a Bryn Mawr graduate, is among the most penetrating and ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT, the well-known dramatic critic of The New York Times, and CHARLES KASSEL, a Texas jurist, is an earnest student of spiritual and psycho- press. ELIZABETH JORDAN, editor, author and dramatist, has interested herself sympathetically in sociological matters such as that which she writes of in this issue of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. HENRY K. CARROLL was for many years religious editor of The Independent, had ! |