Within tKe Gectes 



By ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS 



It is long since Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. Ward) stirred the hearts of men and women 

 by her study of immortality, "The Gates Ajar." But the vital interest of the subject to every 

 thinking being has waxed rather than waned. To-day, perhaps, as never before, many question 

 and doubt as to what the future may bring to the soul. Mrs. Ward has developed her maturer 

 ideas in a new work. In a drama entitled " Within the Gates," she treats with profound power 

 a theme of dominating importance : the life lived beyond the tomb. This work will win the 

 thoughtful attention of all readers. 



Dramatic Episodes in our History 



A Series of Papers about Great Men and Events Written with Vividness 



and Dramatic Intensity. 



By IDA M. TARBELL 



Author of "A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte,'''' "A Life of Lincoln," etc. 



The first of these articles will deal with the << MAKING OF THE CONSTITUTION." 

 It tells simply and clearly the story of the Great Struggle which for more than three months of the 

 summer of 1789 went on in the city of Philadelphia when some of the greatest men this 

 countrv has produced sought to adjust the conflicting interests of the thirteen states in the con- 

 federation and their no less conflicting individual opinions of how a free government should be 

 administered so that a more solid Union, ensuring life, liberty; and the pursuit of happiness, might 

 be obtained. A more critical battle was never fought in any land. It abounds in dramatic 

 moments when all seems lost, in moments of peril when freedom seems doomed. Great sacrifices, 

 noble compromises, brilliant strategv characterize it. Miss Tarbell's article traces the struggle 

 through its whole exciting course and shows how finally triumph was achieved. 



Trial of Aaron Bvirr 



No state trial in the History of the 

 United States has t called together so many and 

 so varied a company of personages or hung on 

 such romantic and varied schemes as that of 

 Aaron Burr. The astounding conspiracv as it 

 came out in the trial before Chief Justice 

 Marshall in Richmond, Virginia, is reviewed 

 in a vivid narrative by Miss Tarbell. 



" Next to the 



Ground" 



By MARTHA McCULLOCH- 

 WILLIAMS 



These stories carry to the reader the 

 atmosphere of the earth, thev are redolent of 

 the soil ; they breathe of the fields and the 

 woods, and the life therein. In them we 

 grow to know in detail the real being of the 

 creatures about us. The writing is surcharged with a wonderful sympathy. One knows that the 

 author is true in her every word, and one realizes that she speaks out of an experience long-continued 

 and very tender, in which she was the dear friend of bees and birds, of hounds and horses, of the 

 ground and its tillers. 



CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL 



