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HARPER’S MAGAZINE 
FOR 1915 
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It is impossible to give any complete outline of next year’s plans at this time, but here are a few 
notable features already arranged. 
A Remarkable Unpublished Romance by MARK TWAIN 
A NEW romance by Mark Twain has just been brought to light — a remarkable story called “The 
Mysterious Stranger.” It is unquestionably the most important and characteristic work of the great 
humorist’s later life—a story of the supernatural, full of deep spiritual significance. It will appear serially 
in Harper’s Magazine, the only magazine which has the privilege of publishing Mark Twain’s work. 
A Great Novel of American Life by BASIL KING -the inner shrine- 
F OLLOWING Booth Tarkington's great serial which is now appearing will come the most important 
novel that the author of “The Inner Shrine” has yet written. It is absolutely American in its 
atmosphere—a love story of rare humor and charm. 
LINCOLN AS JOHN HAY KNEW HIM 
J OHN HAY kept a careful diary during the entire period when he was Abraham Lincoln’s secretary 
and later through his career as a diplomat and statesman. In this diary, which has never before 
been given to the public, he gives a delightfully intimate, day-by-day picture of Lincoln in war-time, 
lie also presents some astonishing facts in regard to certain leaders in the war in their relation to Lincoln. 
William lloscoe Thayer, the historian, has selected from his diary the most notable portions for publi¬ 
cation in Harper’s Magazine. Other important contributions in the field of history will be a re¬ 
markable article by Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart on “American Historical Liars” and some new Napoleon 
material of unusual importance. 
TRAVEL IN MANY LANDS 
[N these days when travel in foreign lands is both difficult and dangerous, readers of Harper’s 
1 Magazine may journey in comfort to almost every interesting corner of the world through the 
Magazine’s brilliantly written and elaborately illustrated travel articles. These articles are not the 
conventional descriptions of foreign travel—yon can find plenty of those in the guide-books. Harper’s 
travel articles have personality. They bring up before you vivid, unforgettable pictures of strange and 
beautiful places in far-distant lands as seen through the eyes of world-famous writers and explorers. 
THE FIELD OF SCIENCE 
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promises some astonishing revelations. 
THE DIALOGUES OF A DIPLOMAT 
N O feature published of recent years in Harper’s Magazine has attracted more attention than the 
two “diplomatic dialogues” by the Hon. David Jayne Hill, formerly U. S. Ambassador at Berlin. 
Mr. Hill is now at work on some more of these dialogues dealing with certain vital American problems. 
MASTERLY SHORT STORIES 
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PRISON LIFE REVEALED 
A VIVID PICTURE OF PRISON LIFE 
The Subterranean Brotherhood 
By JULIAN HAWTHORNE 
Mr. Hawthorne, the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the author of^ many 
works of fiction and general literature, was sentenced to the Federal prison at 
Atlanta for misuse of the United States mails. This book presents the results of 
his experience and observation of the pernicious conditions of our penal system 
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little tearful, still in his disappointment, 
safe in bed. 
“Abner!” said Aunt Judith, from her 
chair by the fire. 
“Yes?” said Mr. Sawyer, coldly. He 
wished Judith would not talk. She rarely 
did. He was tired and upset, and probing 
desperately within for some remnant of 
the cold complacence of a week ago. 
“The minister was here to-day. He— 
he told how Mrs. Dorgan took Jimsy in 
from the street. He — hasn’t — a real— 
home. The minister would like to — to 
find one for him.” 
Jimsy again! He must fling away his 
chain now or feel it clank. 
“That,” said Abner Sawyer, resentfully, 
“is of no interest to me.” 
There was pitiful, hard-wrung bravery 
in Aunt Judith’s face. Only a passionate 
surge of feeling could have swept away 
the silence and repression of the years. 
Only a woman’s emotion, wild and ma¬ 
ternal, for all its starving — inevitable as 
the law of God — could have leaped a bar¬ 
rier so fixed and unrelenting. 
“Abner,” she said, desperately; “I—I 
want to keep Jimsy — I — I can’t bear to see 
him go — ” 
“Judith!” 
Aunt Judith read in his face an inex¬ 
orable death sentence of her hope, and 
rose, trembling. 
“You are a hard, cold man!” she said, 
very white, “and the house is so lonely I 
hate it! ... I hate it!” quivered" 
'Aunt Judith, with a long, shuddering sob; 
“there’s no one to love in it — no one ? 
And everything Specks said to Jimsy was 
true!” 
And then, crying and shaking, she was 
gone, and Abner Sawyer went, with 
stumbling feet, to the privacy of his work¬ 
shop, his face death-white. The pompous 
illusions of his little world were tumbling 
to ruins about him. 
He had said with frequent unction that 
he was a “hard” man, interpreting that 
phrase liberally in terms of thrift, econ¬ 
omy and substantial common sense, and 
his world, through the mouth of an urchin, 
had flung back to him the galling words— 
Miser and Skinflint! . . . They had 
fawned to his face and flouted his back, 
gossiping of servants and made-over 
gowns and kindlings. . . . Up and 
down the quiet work-shop walked Abner 
Sawyer, clinging in an agony of humilia¬ 
tion to the loyalty of an urchin. . . . 
It was all he had, he told himself, fiercely 
—all he had. Jimsy alone saw him as he 
was, and liked him. . . . No heart!' 
. . . No Christmas tree! . . . No 
one in the house to love! . . . He 
must prove, then, to Specks — to Jimsy — to 
Judith—to the Middletons—to all Lin- 
don— 
Turning, with anger in his heart, he 
saw a book upon his bench. And, pick¬ 
ing it up, Abner Sawyer faced the pitiful 
fiasco of Jimsy’s Christmas gift. With a 
great lump in his throat and his eyes wet, 
he stared at the book of carpentering. “To 
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