Some Representative American Story-Tellers I. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS III. IV. BOOTH TARKINGTON This series of articles, which is carried over from last year's programme, will attempt to analyze sympathetically yet critically the work of certain of the younger popular American novelists. It will discuss their men, their women, their methods of story telling, their distinct fields, and the reasons that have made their successes. Some Authors' Letter Boxes This interesting department will be continued during the coming America's Political Workers Abroad I. THE AMERICAN CONSULAR SERVICE. ILLUSTRATED In this series three services of inestimable importance will be treated not from the academic side but from the human side. Americans travelling or living abroad have not always had reason to feel proud of our consular representatives. 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