McClure’s Magazine


August, 1908.

Vol. XXXI. No. 4

Copyright, 1908, by The S. S. McClure Co. All rights reserved

Table of Contents

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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 Münsterberg.[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. Münsterberg.[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 Königgrätz[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’ Gwine Nobody Else Git—Fru—Dat—Do’,’ She Say[436]
The Bunk-House[459]
One Night the Graf Was Prevailed Upon to Tell His Story[461]
The Sitting-Room of the Bismarck[462]
I Noticed a Profile Silhouetted against the Window[463]
St. Francis of the Bunk-House[464]
They Sat on Their Rumps Outside the Circle of Kafirs[467]