Harper's Magazine: October 1917

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October 1917

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	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Pickpockets; Victims of crimes
	Illustration “Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes”—Byron By Marion Powers SEE ALSO: Expectation (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
593-607	Article How battles are fought to-day: New conditions of offensive warfare By général (Pierre Marie Gabriel) Malleterre and Herbert Adams Gibbons (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Artillery; Combined operations (Military science); Drill and tactics; France. Armée; Infantry; Offensive (Military science); Trench warfare PDF IMAGES
607	Poem Bois-Étoilé By Ethel M. Hewitt PDF IMAGES
608-620	Fiction The colonel volunteers By Philip Everett Curtiss PDF IMAGES
620	Poem The shell By Charles Hanson Towne PDF IMAGES
621-630	Article Where glaciers feed the apple roots By Walter Prichard Eaton SEE ALSO: Apple growers; Irrigation farming; Orchards; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
631-637	Fiction None so blind By Mary Synon PDF IMAGES
638-647	Article Mark Twain's letters By Albert Bigelow Paine SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Finance, Personal; Rogers, Henry Huttleston; Humorists, American; Twichell, Joseph Hopkins; Twain, Mark; Clemens, Olivia Langdon; Howells, William Dean PDF IMAGES
648-661	Fiction The camel from home By William J. (William Jonathan) Neidig PDF IMAGES
662-668	Article Portugal's object-lesson to the United States: How a small country raised a powerful army in one year SEE ALSO: Combined operations (Military science); Portugal; Reorganization PDF IMAGES
669-680	Fiction Millward By Fleta Campbell PDF IMAGES
681-693	Article At the ocean cross-roads By Wilbur Daniel Steele SEE ALSO: Buccaneers; Teach, Edward; Homes and haunts; Virgin Islands of the United States PDF IMAGES
693	Poem Half-loaves By Margaret Armstrong PDF IMAGES
694-699	Article The myth of Anglo-American antipathies By Harrison Rhodes SEE ALSO: Combined operations (Military science); Foreign public opinion, American; Foreign public opinion, English; National characteristics, English PDF IMAGES
699	Poem The ghost By Sara Teasdale PDF IMAGES
700-706	Fiction The feather-bed By Henry, Mrs. Dudeney PDF IMAGES
707-716	Article Diplomatic days in Mexico (second paper) By Edith O'Shaughnessy SEE ALSO: Riedl von Riedenau, Baroness; Career in Mexican politics; Correspondence; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Diplomats' spouses; Earthquakes; O'Shaughnessy, Edith; Madero, Francisco I.; Barra, Francisco L. de la (Francisco León); Inauguration, 1911; Mexico City; Mexico City (Mexico); 1910-1946; Hintze, Paul von; Portraits; Revolution, 1910-1920; Hohler, Thomas PDF IMAGES
717-722	Fiction Miss Barcy's Waterloo By Mary Esther Mitchell PDF IMAGES
723-729	Article Solving the problem of infant mortality By Burton Jesse Hendrick SEE ALSO: Family life surveys; Infants; Johnstown; Lathrop, Julia Clifford; Knowledge—Infant mortality; Manchester; Maternal and infant welfare; Mortality; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
735-736	Editor's study/Article Editor's study By Henry Mills Alden SEE ALSO: Literature and the war PDF IMAGES
737-739	Editor's drawer/Drama The journey (a monologue) By May Isabel Fisk PDF IMAGES
740	Editor's drawer/Cartoon “Saved! A sail at last” SEE ALSO: Castaways; Overwater flying PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Better than he knew SEE ALSO: Children's writings, American; Definition (Logic); Geophysics; Gravity; Poverty PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Her choice SEE ALSO: Mountain whites (Southern States); Petroleum; Prospecting; Rich people; Wishes PDF IMAGES
741	Editor's drawer/Joke The bird SEE ALSO: Birds; Identification; Natural history; Single women PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A recommendation SEE ALSO: Cemetery lots; Democrats; Friendship; Selling PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Thought he dreamed it SEE ALSO: African American clergy; African American men; Conscience, Examination of; Marriage service; Postal service PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Ducks; Recruiting, enlistment, etc.; United States. Navy PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Baseball for children; Overweight men; Pitchers (Baseball) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A diplomat SEE ALSO: Diplomatic and consular service, British; Diplomats; Excuses; Leave of absence; Novelists, English; Trieste PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke My precious darling SEE ALSO: Hand-to-hand fighting; Twins PDF IMAGES
742	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Hand-to-hand fighting; Police PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A wise urchin SEE ALSO: Drowning victims; Insurance, Life PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Scientific management SEE ALSO: Children and adults; Industrial management; Kites; Purchasing; Wishes PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A practical suitor SEE ALSO: Beauty, Personal; Cookery; Marriage proposals; Sisters PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A modern fable SEE ALSO: Appointment, call, and election; Chickens; Cookery (Chicken); Methodist Church; Methodist conferences; Mortality PDF IMAGES
743	Editor's drawer/Joke By correspondence SEE ALSO: Chicken stealing; Correspondence schools and courses PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Unhealthy SEE ALSO: Church attendance; Church buildings; Drowsiness; Heating and ventilation PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Burglars; Entertaining; Married women PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Automobile drivers; Repairing; Tires PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A reasonable request SEE ALSO: Fruit; Marketing; Railroad stations; Reasoning in children PDF IMAGES
744	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Doing his bit SEE ALSO: Overweight men; Rationing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem The mouse By Marie Louise Tompkins PDF IMAGES