January, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
79 
THE JANUARY CENTURY 
Contains 
Six Notable Stories 
of Century quality. Among them the first 
humorous story written by May Sinclair 
author of “The Divine Fire.’’ 
There is also the first part 
of a prophetic trilogy 
“The Plot to Catch the Sun” 
By H. G. WELLS, romancer and seer 
Other features are : 
“The River” 
a stirring ballad by John Masefield 
“The Hereditary Transmission of Property” 
by Andrew Carnegie 
“ Shall the Filipinos have a Fourth of July ” 
by W. Morgan Shuster 
“ Immigrants in Politics ” 
by Prof. E. A. Ross 
“The German Emperor and the Balkan Peace” 
by James D. Whelpley 
etc. etc. etc. 
Among the many illustrations is a full-color repro¬ 
duction of a portrait painted last summer by Robert 
Vonnoh of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and her three 
daughters. 
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