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McCLURE'S MAGAZINE

VOL. XXXI    AUGUST, 1908    No. 4


_Copyright, 1908, by The S. S. McClure Co. All rights reserved_


Table of Contents

                                                                  PAGE
  A DISCLOSURE OF THE SECRET POLICIES OF RUSSIA. By General
      Kuropatkin.                                                  363
  TALKS WITH BISMARCK. By Carl Schurz.                             367
  THE FOREHANDED COLQUHOUNS. By Margaret Wilson.                   378
  LAST YEARS WITH HENRY IRVING. By Ellen Terry.                    386
  THE LOST MOTHER. By Blanche M. Kelly.                            399
  PATSY MORAN. THE BOOK AND ITS COVERS. By Arthur Sullivan
      Hoffman.                                                     401
  ARCTIC COLOR. By Sterling Heilig.                                411
  THE TAVERN. By Willa Sibert Cather.                              419
  A STORY OF HATE. By Gertrude Hall.                               420
  HIS NEED OF MIS' SIMONS. By Lucy Pratt.                          432
  PROHIBITION AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. By Hugo Muensterberg.          438
  THE MOVING FINGER WRITES. By Marie Belloc Lowndes.               445
  A BUNK-HOUSE AND SOME BUNK-HOUSE MEN. By Alexander Irvine.       455
  THE KING OF THE BABOONS. By Perceval Gibbon.                     467
  ONE HUNDRED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CURES. By Richard C. Cabot         472
  SOUTH STREET. By Francis E. Falkenbury.                          476
  THE INABILITY TO INTERFERE. By Mary Heaton Vorse.                477
  PROHIBITION AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. By Dr. Muensterberg.           482


Illustrations

  General Alexei Nicholaevitch Kuropatkin                          363
  Kaiser Wilhelm I                                                 369
  Prince Otto Von Bismarck                                         372
  Count Hellmuth Von Moltke                                        373
  The Chancellor's Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse                    374
  The Battle of Koeniggraetz                                         374
  Emperor Napoleon III                                             376
  "Jane and Selina... Looked at Patient and Nurse with
      Disapproving Gloom"                                          378
  "She Could Not Help Seeing That Selina Found Some Strange
      Pleasure in all These Incidents of a Last Illness"           382
  Ellen Terry as Kniertje in "The Good Hope"                       387
  John Singer Sargent                                              388
  Sir Edward Burne-Jones                                           388
  Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth                                      389
  Peggy, Madame Sans-Gene, Madame Sans-Gene, Cordelia              390
  Imogen, Lucy Ashton, Catherine Duval, Lucy Ashton                390
  Cardinal Wolsey, Lady Macbeth, Guinevere, Thomas Becket          391
  Nancy Oldfield, Hermione, Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire, Lady Cicely,
      Wayneflete                                                   391
  Miss Ellen Terry                                                 392
  Sir Henry Irving                                                 392
  Ellen Terry as Queen Katherine in Henry VIII                     395
  The Book and Its Covers                                          401
  "Pardon Me," He Said, "But What Are You Doing That for?"         402
  "Ye'd Better Be Usin' Your Brains to Walk With, and Not
      Strainin' Thim Like That"                                    407
  Midnight in the Kara Sea                                         411
  "The Country of the Dead"--A Study of the Kara Sea in August     413
  Samoyed Love of Color                                            414
  Painting of a Sledge Set Upon End for the Night, With Skins and
      Meat Hung Upon It So as to Be Out of Reach of the Dogs       415
  A Study Made in Nova Zembla at the Time of the Complete Eclipse
      of the Sun, July 27, 1896                                    416
  Painting of a Church Built by M. Seberjakow                      417
  In the Midnight Sunshine                                         418
  His Need of Mis' Simons                                          432
  'I Couldn' Git 'Long 'Thout Yer Noways, Could I?' She Say        433
  'She Keep on A-Readin', an' I Keep on A-Wukkin' on de Paff'      434
  'It's Time Fer You ter Go to Baid, Ain't It, 'Zekiel?' She Say   435
  ''Tain