Harper's Magazine: December 1917

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December 1917

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1-14	Article A poet and his child friends: James Whitcomb Riley's letters to children SEE ALSO: Biography; Children and adults; Children's writings, American; Correspondence; Medairy, Edith Thomas; Riley, James Whitcomb; Poets, American; Portraits PDF IMAGES
14	Poem Brandon By Alice Duer Miller PDF IMAGES
15-17	Poem The proud lady By Henry Van Dyke PDF IMAGES
18-27	Fiction The empty pistol By Charles Caldwell Dobie PDF IMAGES
28-42	Article On Admiralty Service By George Harding SEE ALSO: Career in ministry for sailors; Correspondence; Wood, Howard O.; Merchant marine; Merchant mariners; Naval operations, British; Seamen's Church Institute (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
43-54	Fiction East of Eden By Katharine Fullerton Gerould PDF IMAGES
55-61	Collection Within the rim PDF IMAGES Article Introduction By Elizabeth Bibesco SEE ALSO: James, Henry; Literature and the war; War work PDF IMAGES Article Within the rim By Henry James SEE ALSO: Personal narratives, American PDF IMAGES
62-75	Fiction Arpeggio courts By Zona Gale PDF IMAGES
76-81	Article Why old songs live By Richard Le Gallienne SEE ALSO: Ballads, English; Folk songs, English PDF IMAGES
82-94	Fiction A midwinter-night's dream By Margarita Spalding Gerry PDF IMAGES
95-100	Illustration The war in the air: A series of drawings By Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Vernon Howe Bailey SEE ALSO: Airplanes, Military; Seaplanes; United States. Navy PDF IMAGES
101-110	Fiction The woman at Seven Brothers By Wilbur Daniel Steele PDF IMAGES
111-123	Article A Rocky Mountain game trail By Walter Prichard Eaton SEE ALSO: Bald eagle; Glacier National Park; Glacier National Park (Mont.); Montana; Trail riding PDF IMAGES
124-130	Article The real front By Arthur Hunt Chute SEE ALSO: France. Armée; Infantry; Personal narratives, Canadian; Trench warfare PDF IMAGES
130	Poem Love's island (from the Japanese of Doku-Ho) By Doku-Ho and Ian P. Oliver (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
131-145	Fiction Beautiful as the morning By Eloise Robinson PDF IMAGES
145	Poem A song for winter By Schuyler, Mrs. Van Rensselaer PDF IMAGES
146-149	Editor's easy chair/Review Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: American poetry; Stoddard, Charles Warren; Death and burial; Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna); Poems of Charles Warren Stoddard (Book); Poets, American; “The listeners” (Poem); The poetic year for 1916, a critical anthology (Book); De la Mare, Walter; Braithwaite, William Stanley PDF IMAGES
150-152	Editor's study/Article Editor's study By Henry Mills Alden SEE ALSO: Authors and publishers; Authors and readers; Greene, Frederick Stuart; Du Maurier, George; Jude the obscure (Book); Periodicals, Publishing of; Short stories, American; The grim thirteen (Book); Hardy, Thomas; Trilby (Book) PDF IMAGES
153-156	Editor's drawer/Fiction The trouble with Martha By Ellis Parker Butler PDF IMAGES
156	Editor's drawer/Poem A small boy's prayer By Lucia O. Bell PDF IMAGES
157	Editor's drawer/Joke The terror of the press SEE ALSO: Gossip columns; Newspapers and children; Sleep; Teasing; Women journalists PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A new word to her SEE ALSO: Clerks (Retail trade); Irish American women; Praise; Supervision of employees; Training of PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Architectural acoustics; Music audiences; Pianists PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Adding insult to injury SEE ALSO: Ford automobile; Railroad conductors; Traffic accidents; Trolley cars PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke An advantage SEE ALSO: Christian Scientists; Playmates; Spiritual healing PDF IMAGES
158	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Absent-mindedness; Brewers; Mumps; Units PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A fable SEE ALSO: Cookery (Fish); Diamonds; Fishing boats; Lost articles; Women fishers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Her reason SEE ALSO: Marriage proposals; Wishes PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Putting one over SEE ALSO: Disguise; Guardian angels; Sleep PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A paradox SEE ALSO: Breakage, shrinkage, etc. (Commerce); Freight; Moving, Household PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Instruction and study; Juvenile; Piano; Time perception in children PDF IMAGES
159	Editor's drawer/Joke Useless SEE ALSO: Gifts; Shopping PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Another “safety first” SEE ALSO: African American men; Cavalry; Recruiting, enlistment, etc. PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A useless question SEE ALSO: Rich people; Young men PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Burns and scalds; Restaurants; Soups; Waiters; Wounds and injuries PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Not needed SEE ALSO: Fire-escapes; Fugitives from justice; Slums; Women social workers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Dance parties; Deaf men; Faux pas; Overweight women PDF IMAGES
160	Editor's drawer/Cartoon The spy SEE ALSO: Santa Claus PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem A winter afternoon By Marie Louise Tompkins PDF IMAGES