glasses? or eats from American plates? or wears American coats or gowns, or sleeps in American blankets? Finally, under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his fellow creatures may buy and sell and torture?” Well, times since have changed. In those early years THE NORTH AMERICAN was making history. Nearly ever since it has been an important factor in American letters and in the discussion of current affairs. Great names are found in its roster of editors, Lowell, Dana, Jared Sparks. Up to a generation ago it held an high place in the affections of discriminating readers who understood the history of American letters. When Col. Harvey took it over in 1899 he made it scintillate and coruscate; it tantalized and sometimes infuriated its readers, often it amused and not seldom it delighted them. It has been an "American institution." It has felt as have other dignified periodicals of the older type the competition of the popular monthlies which put pretty girls on their covers and fill the pages between them with entertaining fiction. We trust that under the ownership of Mr. Walter Butler Mahony it will maintain itself still as an institution, dealing in a distinctively American fashion with questions of real importance. North American Review From The Telegram, Portland, Oregon Sale of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW to Walter Butler Mahony, lawyer and publicist of New York, opens a new chapter in the long and honorable history of an influential magazine. For 28 years THE REVIEW has been edited by George Harvey, formerly ambassador to the court of St. James. The magazine was founded in 1815. The Portland Library is the fortunate possessor of a complete file of the magazine from its first issue. It has never attempted to fill the place of a “popular” periodical, but has directed itself to the substantial, thoughtful reader who wants accurate information, clothed in the attractive dress of good literary style. Since it is the thinkers who directly and indirectly lead the incoherent forces of the unthinking, the influence of such a magazine as THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW cannot be measured in terms of circulation. The opinions of its writers find expression in many forms, and in unexpected places, translated into the vernacular by writers who reach a larger public. We may hope that under the new management THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW will carry on its dignified and important work of supplying discriminating readers with an intellectual fare, nourishing, stimulating and, withal, attractive. Published quarterly by the North American Review Corporation PUBLICATION OFFICE, RUMFORD BUILDING, CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE GEORGE HARVEY, President: H. H. HAZELL, Secretary-Treasurer The price of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, published quarterly, is one dollar a single copy, or four dollars a year, in the United States, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands. Subscribers in Canada should add to the yearly subscription price 20 cents for postage, and those in foreign countries 30 cents. Entered as second-class matter December 18, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord, N. H. CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE PIERRE CRABITÈS, Judge of the Mixed Tribunal, at Cairo, Egypt, is a native of Louisiana. A long acquaintance with conditions in Egypt and the Sudan makes his presentation of his subject of first importance. HIRAM WESLEY EVANS, the Imperial Wizard and Emperor, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, presents here for the first time the story of the Klan, its aims and accomplishments. Dr. Evans, a native of Alabama, studied dentistry and was graduated from Vanderbilt University. CHARLES H. SHERRILL, former United States Minister to the Argentine, needs no introduction to the readers of this REVIEW. Mr. Sherrill's more recent publications include Have We a Far Eastern Policy? Prime Ministers and Presidents, and The Purple or The Red? J. M. KENWORTHY, M.P., R.N., has been a Member of the British House of Commons since 1918, Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy, late of the Admiralty War Staff at London, and Assistant Chief of Staff at Gibraltar. HANFORD HENDERSON has spent most of his life in the open, on Southern plantations, Western ranches, in Europe and in France. He has made his leisure and his occupation the study of human conditions at home and abroad. His profession was formerly that of teaching. ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW (Mrs. E. E. Winslow) is already known to the readers of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. In imaginative grace of style and beauty of rhythm she has already taken her place with the poets. Her recent volume of verse appeared under the title The Long Gallery. VIRGINIA MOORE is a native of the South. Her verse has appeared in numerous publications and her first volume is to appear shortly. ROBERT P. TRISTRAM COFFIN was a Rhodes Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, and is now Associate Professor of English Literature in Wells College. He is the author of Poems of Christ Church and Book of Crowns and Cottages. Continued on second page following THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW ADVERTISER New Scribner Books THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, 1900-1904 (The first volume of "Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925") By Mark Sullivan Here is a new kind of history. This fascinating book, one of a series of four volumes, recreates a definite part of the most thrilling twenty-five years of our country's life, as the average American lived them, and as they affected him. 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Mr. Downs has already contributed to this REVIEW. ALFRED STANFORD is a graduate of Amherst College. His novels are The Ground Swell and The City Out of the Sea. WALDO FRANK, the novelist and essayist, is author of Our America, Rahab, City Block Holiday and others. The present essay is a chapter of a forthcoming volume entitled Virgin Spain. O. W. FIRKINS is Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His recent volume William Dean Howells received the approval of the Committee on Intellectual Coöperation of the League of Nations. SIEGFRIED SASSOON is of Clare College, Cambridge University. He served in the British Army throughout the war both in France and Palestine. Among his publications are: The Daffodil Murderer, The Old Huntsman and Collected War Poems. F. D. CHEYDLEUR was educated at Williams College, and took his Doctor's degree at the University of Grenoble. He is at present Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Wisconsin. EDITH FRANKLIN WYATT, a Chicagoan, is a writer of essays, poems and fiction, the author of Great Companions, The Wind in the Corn, Every One His Own Way, and The Invisible Gods. CLARENCE H. GAINES, Professor of English Literature at St. Lawrence University, has long been attached to the editorial staff of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. HELEN MCAFEE is Assistant Editor of The Yale Review and an old contributor to this REVIEW. WILLIAM HOWE DOWNES was for more than thirty years Art Critic of The Boston Transcript. He is the author of John S. Sargent, His Life and Work. WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON, author of America's Foreign Relations, A Century of Expansion, and other historical works, has for many years been a Contributing Editor of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. JOHN HUNTER SEDGWICK is a graduate of Harvard. 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