CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1916

VOLUME 5

NUMBER 6

LEADING ARTICLE FOR THE MONTH

THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE—By Marcel Prevost 29

IN AND ABOUT THE THEATER

GERALDINE FARRAR—Two Portraits by Victor Georg - 32

LETTERS TO HIS LEADING MAN—By Bernard Shaw - 33

MABEL TALIAFERRO—Portrait by Victor Georg - - - 34

SEE WHO'S HERE—Inkographs by Ethel Taylor - - 36

BONNIE LASSIES AND BONNIE GLASS—Photographs - 46

THEY ARE ALL DREWS—Photographs ----50

RUTH ST. DENIS—Photograph by Ira L. Hill - - - 54

SOME THEATRICAL MYSTERIES—By P. G. Wodehouse - 55

GEORGE ARLISS AND DAVID BISPHAM -----56

HEROINES IN THREE SUCCESSFUL Plays—Photographs 60

THE SAD DECLINE OF THEATRICAL ROAD COMPANIES —By Leander Richardson - ---61

BERNARD SHAW'S "MAJOR BARBARA"—By James L. Ford - ------- 124

THE WORLD OF ART

PORTRAIT OF A LADY—By Gerard Terburg—Frontispiece ------------- 28

HUARD - ----30

KARL BITTER'S STATUE FOR THE PLAZA—Photographs 42

SUBJUGATION—Drawing by Sydney Joseph - - - - 49

BUDDHA COMPASSIONATE—Buddhist Wood Engraving - 53

BARTLETT'S SCULPTURE FOR THE HOUSE PEDIMENT - - 62

MODERN EXPRESSION IN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE - 65

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

A NEW OPERA FOR THE METROPOLITAN—By Frederick H. Martens - ----- 37

ORNSTEIN AND FUTURIST MUSIC—By Charles L. Buchanan -------------48

MODERN THOUGHTS BY MODERN ESSAYISTS

THE LIGHTS AND NIGHTS OF LONDON—By Arthur Symons - ------43

MARRIAGE TRIALS AND TRIAL MARRIAGE—By Ettore Marroni - -------49

DAVID LLOYD GEORGE—By Frederick James Gregg - 51

THE ART OF LITERARY ADVERTISEMENT—BOOK REviews—By Henry Brinsley - ---53

LATIN AND AMERICAN WOMEN—By Giuseppe Sergardi 57

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY—By Ettore Marroni—Drawing by Thelma Cudlipp - ----58

ALL SERIOUSNESS ASIDE

OH-DEAR-ME STUFF—Modem Humor from Abroad - 6

How DOTH THE BUSY DEBUTANTE—By Ethel Plummer 35

NEW YORK'S SKATING OBSESSION—Sketches by Henry Raleigh - -------40

ALL ABOUT BUTLERS—By P. Brooke-Haven - - - - 41

LOVERS—By Campbell Lee—.Sketches by Fish - - - 44

PHYSICAL CULTURE AS A RELIGION—By Floyd Dell - 47

FURBELOWS AND FUR BELOW—Sketches by Lawrence Fellows - -------47

THE NEW DISEASE, DEMENTIA WARSTOCKS—By Dr. J. Plum, M.D., LL.D..- - - 56

LUNCHEON AT SHERRY'S—Poem by George S. Chappell—Wood Engraving by William Hogarth, Jr. 58

AN AFGHAN IN AMERICA—By Achmed Abdullah - - 59

THE SNOOPOPATHS—By Stephen Leacock - - - - 63

To A BRUNETTE—Verse by Aleister CROWLEY—Sketches by Reginald Birch - -----63

LAUGHING GAS FROM LONDON'S TRENCHES—British Humor - ------64

THE DOGS HAVE A SHOW OF THEIR OWN—Sketches by Myrtle Held - ----- 69

INDECISION—Drawing by Myrtle Held ----108

LIFE OUTDOORS

MR. HARRY PAYNE WHITNEY'S "WHILEAWAY"— Photographs - ------66

THIS YEAR'S DOG SHOW AT THE GARDEN - - - - 68

LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE MOTOR SHOW ----70

MISCELLANIES

THE NEW GROUP OF LONDON BEAUTIES—Photographs 38

PEACEFUL PORTRAITS FROM WARRING EUROPE—Photographs -------------52

A POET AT EIGHTY—Verse by Elihu Vcdder - - - 62

SHOPPING FOR THE WELL DRESSED MAN—By Robert Lloyd Trevor - - -71

WHAT THEY WEAR IN VANITY FAIR

PARIS ADDS A METER TO THE SILHOUETTE'S WIDTH - 72

A TINKLE OF SPRING IN THE AIR 73

HIGH LIGHTS ON THE NEW SPRING TEXTILES - - - 74

THE SHOPS OF VANITY FAIR ..76

HONORABLE MENTION FOR SPRING SUITS - - - - 77

Six INTIMATE AIDS TO GRACE - ----78

ONLY THE FAIR DESERVE THE SHADE80

TOLD IN THE BOUDOIR - -----82

AROUND ABOUT THE SMART SHOPS -----88

HIGH AND LOW DEGREES OF THE COLLAR - - - - 90

FADS AND FABRICS OF THE MODE - ----92

NEW COLORS AND TONES SPRING INTO BEING - - - 94

HATS HAVING MODERNIST TENDENCIES ----96