Authors in the January Atlantic

International Politics

The authors of the three important papers in this number upon international questions of special interest at this time are all publicists and writers of the first distinction. Hon. Francis C. Lowell is a Justice of the United States Circuit Court. Hon. John W. Foster, ex-Secretary of State, has been United States Minister to Mexico and to Russia. At the invitation of the Emperor of China, he participated in the peace negotiations between China and Japan at the close of the Chinese-Japanese War. He is the author of “A Century of American Diplomacy,” of “American Diplomacy in the Orient,” and other important works. Herbert H. D. Peirce, Third Assistant Secretary of State, came into special prominence last summer in connection with the meeting of the Peace Commissioners of Russia and Japan at Portsmouth. He was for many years Secretary of the United States Legation in Saint Petersburg, and speaks with authority upon all questions pertaining to Russian politics and economic questions.

General Articles

Andrew S, Draper, who writes in this number upon “The University Presidency,” is one of the best known educators in the United States. He was for six years Superintendent of Instruction in the State of New York, for ten years President of the University of Illinois, and is now Commissioner of Education of the State of New York. He is the author of many publications upon educational subjects. Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian poet and dramatist, is fast taking a stand as one of the foremost of living idealistic moralists. Loren H. B. Knox is a young lawyer of Chicago who makes his first contribution to the Atlantic in this number with a striking paper upon Chicago Faces. S. P. Orth has already appeared before Atlantic readers with a paper upon “Our State Legislatures” in the Atlantic for December, 1904. He is the author of a work upon the centralization of administration in Ohio and of “Five American Politicians.” Albert Schinz, who writes upon “Esperanto,” is a professor of the Romance languages in Bryn Mawr College; E. K. Broadus is a professor in the University of South Dakota; and Dr. A. V. G. Allen who reviews Palmer’s Herbert, is Professor of Church History in the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of many works of theology and biography. Miss Mary Moss, who contributes the “Notes on New Novels,” attracted much attention by her “Significant Tendencies in Current Fiction” printed in the Atlantic for May, 1905. Many articles and stories of hers have appeared in the best magazines, and she is the author of a novel entitled “A Sequence in Hearts.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe, who writes the “Recent American Biography,” is an editor of the “Youth’s Companion.” He is the editor of the series of Beacon Biographies, the author of “The American Bookman” and a life of Phillips Brooks, and various other volumes of poetry and belles-lettres.

The Stories

The story-writers in this number are all well known to Atlantic readers. Among the most recent contributions of Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford have been “ The Story of the Queen ” and “A Sacrifice;” those of Esther B. Tiffany are “Anna Mareea” and “The Countess at Pondsville Centre:” “ The Age Limit,” by E. S. Johnson, appeared in the Atlantic for April, 1904.