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[Dec. 4 , 1905 
HARPER’S MAGAZINE F0R 1910 
T HERE are various levels in the world of magazines iust 
as there are in every other world. On the highest of these 
levels Harper's Magazine has held its position undisputed 
for almost sixty years (its sixtieth birthday will be cele¬ 
brated in June). One thing more than all others has made 
for its ever-increasing success—the keynote of its policy has bee 
“always to be interesting.” Compare Harper s for any year with 
any other periodical. You will find that it has covered the widest 
range of interesting subjects, and has done it interestingly; that it 
has published the most notable articles; that its list of contributors 
includes the names of almost every great living writer of America 
and England. Its short stories (and there are at least seven in 
every number) are “different” and are incomparably more strik¬ 
ing than can be found elsewhere. And a Harper serial is always 
the most important and successful novel of the year. 
Harper’s is a magazine of ideals. It believes in steady and con¬ 
stant progress. It does not go up with a flare and then down again, 
but steadily upward. It is better to-day than it has ever been be¬ 
fore. That its qualities are appreciated is amply testified to by the 
fact that its circulation has reached a new high-water mark, and 
that after its sixty years of success its growth to-day is more rapid 
than ever in its'history. , , , , 
To give any complete outline of the plans of the Magazine tor 
the coming year is not possible, of course. A few of the notable 
features already arranged may be announced, _ but the best must 
come with the added charm of complete surprise and novelty. 
By Canoe from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay 
Kirk Munroe, who, by years of experience as a traveler in al¬ 
most every corner of the world, is particularly fitted to undertake 
a perilous journey has just returned from an expedition which he 
has made by canoe and on foot through an untraveled wilderness 
of Northern Canada. Accompanied only by Indian guides he 
traveled the most direct course possible from Winnipeg to Hud¬ 
son Bay. Mr. Munroe went in the interests of Harper S, and the 
results of his journey should prove of absorbing interest. 
Margaret Deland’s New Novel 
No American writer of to-day has perhaps so strong a hold on 
the affections of her readers as Margaret Deland The characte 
she has created in her “Old Chester Tales” and her novels have 
come to be like those of Dickens and Thackeray, tried and trusted 
friends Who is there who does not know and love Doctor Laven- 
dar and little David? Mrs. Deland, after three years of constant 
work has just finished a new novel which will begin soon in 
Harper’s. It is in every way the strongest and most vital novel 
that Mrs. Deland has written, and that is high praise, indeed. 
Has the South Pole Been Discovered? 
Now that the North Pole has at last been reached, the eyes of 
the world are turned toward the South. WiJ this year, al read y 
famous by what has been accomplished, bring also the news that 
the southernmost point has been discovered? It seems not im¬ 
probable At any moment news may come of the Charcot expe¬ 
dition, which has now been absent almost two years in the Ant¬ 
arctic And, whatever the results, the first account of their ad¬ 
ventures will appear by special arrangement in Harper s. 
A Novelist in the Orkneys 
The Yale Expedition to Palestine 
his journey to the Dead Sea and beyond, his visit to the ruins of 
the once famous desert city of Palmyra, where Zenobia ruled, and 
many other places of peculiar interest because of their literary and 
Biblical associations. Splendid pictures go with the articles. 
Capitals ol the Orient 
Mr. W. J. Aylward is one of the most brilliant and versatile of 
our younger painters. He has recently visited the Orient, and in 
the Magazine during the coming months he will present in picture 
and text his impressions of some of the great seaport cities of the 
East. Many of Mr. Aylward’s pictures will be reproduced in full 
color. 
The New Philanthropy 
Charity has ceased to be a matter of mere giving. The modern 
philanthropist aims not only to relieve those in poverty and dis¬ 
tress, but to find out the causes of these troubles and eliminate 
them’. The work is one which must interest every humane man and 
woman, and the results which are being accomplished are remark- 
able Robert W. Bruere, of the New York Society for Improving 
the Condition of fche Poor, will tell how the good Samaritan of to¬ 
day goes about his work, and how he is succeeding. 
The Wonderland ol Science 
For some years two of Thomas A. Edison’s friends have been 
at work on a life of the great inventor. We had hoped for this 
last year, but Mr. Edison works slowly. This year we are sure 
of some chapters from the life of the most interesting man alive. 
The field of science is one in which Harper’s Magazine occupies 
a unique position. It is the only non-technical Magazine for which 
the great savants and men of science of the world are willing to 
write. Harper’s has attained this position by publishing only 
articles of absolute authority by writers of unquestioned standing. 
And these articles are written in the simplest and most interesting 
way. 
Literature and Reminiscence 
In the field of literary reminiscence Harper’s will present some 
peculiarly important contributions. Notable among these will be a 
number of articles prepared from the unpublished letters, of the 
late Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet, dealing with his early 
career as a war correspondent in the Civil War, and later .with his 
life in New York in the sixties, in which a delightful picture is 
presented of the youth of many of our most distinguished men of 
letters with whom Mr. Stedman was associated. • 
Ford Madox Hueffer, the nephew of the English painter Ford 
Madox Brown, will contribute papers in which a delightfully inti¬ 
mate picture is given of many of the great figures of the pre- 
Raphaelite group, including Rossetti, Watts and Swinburne. There 
will be essays on literature and life by E. S. Martin, Edmuna 
Gosse, W. D. Howells and other well-known English and Ameri¬ 
can writers. 
Short Stories 
Maude Radford Warren, the novelist, has just returned from a 
trip to the Shetlands and the Orkney Islands, and to the strange 
and little-known islands of Aran, off the coast of Ireland. She 
has lived among the people and learned their many curious ways 
and customs. Mrs. Warren will contribute a number of articles 
on her visits to these quaint corners of the world. 
A word or two more is perhaps pardonable about this most im¬ 
portant feature of the Magazine. The short stories of Harper’s 
represent the best work that is being done in this field to-day— 
by both American and English writers. There is endless variety. 
The stories are stories of true quality, and here again it is a prime 
requisite that every story published shall be interesting. There will 
be at least seven complete stories in every number. 
Illustration 
Ellsworth Huntington, M.A., the head of the Yale Expedition, 
has just returned to this country after a year’s travel and explora¬ 
tion in Palestine. Mr. Huntington stands in the front rank of 
American travelers. He has written for Harper’s Magazine a 
group of papers of fascinating interest, embodying the results of 
In the beautifying of its pages and the illumination of its articles 
and stories with illustrations that really illustrate, Harper’s Maga¬ 
zine has always led the world. Among those whose work is in it¬ 
self the amplest guarantee of the highest standards are: Howard 
Pvle w Hatherell, R. I.; Elizabeth Shippen Green, Frank Craig, 
Lucius W. Hitchcock, F. Walter Taylor, F. E. Schoonover, C H. 
White Howard E. Smith, May Wilson Preston, Peter Newell, F. 
Stroth’mann, W. D. Stevens and Andre Castaigne. Henry Wolf 
will contribute frequent examples of his exquisite art of wood¬ 
engraving. 
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