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What May Not One Accomplish With Such A Magazine As Guide? SPECIAL OFFER GOOD ONLY UNTIL JANUARY 1st, 1915 The House Beautiful, No. 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Date, At. Mo. 1.15. Gentlemen: For the enclosed $2.00 please enter my subscription, beginning Jan. 1st, 1915, and include a Free Copy of December number together with Portfolio of Interior Decoration. Contributors to the January Agnes Repplier ("Christianity and the War"), a distinguished American essayist, and one of the Atlantic's oldest friends, is a resident of Philadelphia. Her last paper, “Our Lady Poverty," appeared in October, 1914. Katharine Fullerton Gerould (“A Moth of Peace") is well known to Atlantic readers as the author of many keen and sometimes unrelenting criticisms. An unusual collection of short stories from her pen has recently been published by Charles Scribner's Sons, under the title, "Vain Oblations." Martha Dickinson Bianchi (“Unpublished Letters of Emily Dickinson") sends from Amherst, Massachusetts, these quaint relics of the life of her aunt. Emily Dickinson was a recluse throughout the greater part of her life. Her poems, published after her death, have won for her a perpetual place among American poets. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson ("The Rock-Light"), one of the younger generation of English poets, is known to an increasing American public through his volume, "Daily Bread," and his more recent "Borderlands and Thoroughfares," published in September by the Macmillan Com pany. Walter Prichard Eaton ("Class-Consciousness and the Movies") is a dramatic critic and essayist with whose work readers of the better magazines are happily familiar. Washington Gladden ("Religion and the Schools"), pastor emeritus of the First Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio, has been for over a third of a century a copious writer on religious subjects. Katharine Butler ("To an Ancient Head of Aphrodite”), a writer new to the Atlantic, sends this poem from a Massachusetts town. Abraham Mitrie Rihbany ("The Hidden Treasure of Rishmey-yeh") is now minister of the church once distinguished by the pastorate of James Freeman Clark. That he was born almost in the shadow |