VANITY FAIR

CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1915

VOLUME 4

NUMBER 5

MAJOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD

Galloping on "Octahedron," Frontispiece 24

EUROPE AND THE AMERICAN STATE OF MIND

A Survey of Recent Developments, by Frederick James Gregg 25

IN THE CLOUDS OVER FLANDERS

A Photograph, by Alvin Langdon Coburn 26

THE WINNERS OF S.O.S.—R.S.V.P. NO. 2

And S.O.S. No. 4—Vanity Fair's Department of Deportment Conducted by Charles Macomb Flandrau 27

FOLLOWING IN FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS

In East Prussia. With a Drawing by Reginald Birch 27

FROM PLAYS AND REHEARSALS

English and Greek—The Stage in Photographs 28

STARS IN THE DRAMATIC SKIES

Of Two Continents—The Stage in Photographs 29

VANITY FAIR'S ALL-AMERICAN BASEBALL TEAM

Picked by Experts All Over the Country. Illustrated 30

THE HALL OF FAME

And the Month's Nominations For It 31

THE MARCHIONESS OF HEADFORT

From the Painting in the Royal Academy, by William Or pen 32

VAMPIRE WOMEN

Eight Pen Portraits by as Many Illustrators 33

A NEW ETCHING BY FRANK BRANGWYN

And a Camera Portrait of the Artist 34

WHEN ITALY WAS PRO-GERMAN

A Meeting Between the King and the Kaiser by Arthur Symons 35

A RECENT DEGAS DISCOVERY

Vanity Fair Unearths Three New Degas Pictures in New York 36

TO THE PRISONERS AT SING SING

Their Hope for Rehabilitation, an Address by W. Bourke Cockran 37

THE GALA PERFORMANCE OF "CARMEN"

A Page of Sketches Made for Vanity Fair, by Tony Sarg 38

BACCHUS AND BELLONA ARE ON THE OUTS

The God of Drink and the Goddess of War Dissolve Partership By Hyman Strunsky 39

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE DINNER COMMITTEE

A Little Narrative Told and Illustrated, by Harry Grant Dart 40

PENCILLED PECULIARITIES

Sketched at a Memorable Ball Game, by James Montgomery Flagg 41

JOSEF HOFMANN

A Word About His Art, by R. L. Cottenet 42

RHYTHMIC DANCING AND OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY

The Morgan Dancers, Photographed by Lillian Baynes Griffin 43

THE GREATEST POLO TEAM IN THE WORLD

Snapshotted in Action and Inaction for Vanity Fair 44

A GROUP OF MODERN STYLISTS

Reviews of Recent Books, by Henry Brinsley 45

BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS AND PRODUCERS

A Page of Camera Portraits 46

THE ARMY HORSE

An Article on Thoroughbreds by Major-General Leonard Wood 49

PROBLEMS FOR PRESIDENT WEIR

Of the National Academy of Design, by Frederick James Gregg 50

SOME THOUGHTS ON MR. OPPENHEIM

And the Disaster That Has Overtaken Him, by P. G. Wodehouse 50

A NEW TENNIS WONDER

Miss Molla Bjurstedt, of Christiania, by J. Parmly Paret 51

A FEW DRESSING ROOM SECRETS

Revealed—By the Camera, Of Course 52

THE MILITARY INVASION OF AMERICA

The German-J a panese Invasion of 1916, by P. G. Wodehouse 53

THE BEAUTIES OF POLYGAMY

A Fable; Perhaps a Dream. By "Bergcret" 54

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAI—WEST DOOR

From a Sand-paper Mezzotint, by Joseph Pennell 55

MARGARET WOODROW WILSON

And Her Professional Debut at Syracuse, by William Armstrong 56

THE FLIGHT OF A MAN'S LOVE

A Mournful Reflection, by E. Marroni 57

"THE CIRCUS TWINS"

A New Portrait Group, by Dorothy Rice 57

DUPLICATE WEDDING PRESENTS

And a Shop for Exchanging Them, Drawn by Myrtle Held 58

"SPIKE," OR TENNIS FOR THREE

The Solution to an Old Tennis Problem, by Frank Andrews Fall 59

SEVEN GREAT ROWING COACHES

And Vanity Fair's Prediction of the Result at Poughkeepsie 59

THE COMING YACHTING SEASON

It Will Be a Short One, But Lively, by Lawrence Perry 60

THE METROPOLITAN TOWER BY TWILIGHT

From a Photograph, Taken in January, by Karl Struss 62

NEWS AND VIEWS FROM MOTORDOM

Concerning Some New Records and Other Items of Interest 63

THE FRENCH BULL-DOG AND THE BORZOIS

A Discussion of Two Increasingly Popular Breeds (Illustrated) 64

SHOPPING FOR THE WELL-DRESSED MAN

Summer Evening Shirts, a Fishing-Riding Coat and Incidentals 65

CANINE RITZ-CARLTONS

And the Advisability of Making Use of Them, by Louise K. Francis 86

WHAT THEY WEAR IN VANITY FAIR

Mrs. Vernon Castle, Mistress of Shorecliff House... 66; Little Bits of Chic—French Comments.. .67; Seen at the Races—Society Snapshots. . .70; The Shops of Vanity Fair—Clothes for the Seashore.. .71; This and That for the Sportswoman—Country Clothes.. .73; French Designs Obtainable in New York.. .74; Told in the Boudoir—How to be "Bien Soign6" en Route.. .76.