. The Argonaut . s. ksh^ T^^s^ricy?: NOW READY HARPERS MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER CONTAINS THE SECOND PART OF Mark Twains New Story TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE The most vigorous delineation of American life in the 1st generation since the appearanceof Huckleberry Finn. Illustrations by A. B. Frost. FIRST IN PEACE BY PROFESSOR WOODROW WILSONportraying the character of Washington during the * critical period between t< •? cose c Howard Pvi b. AMONC THE TREES By ANN* C. BRACKETT- A SUMMER AMONCCLIFF DWELLINGS 3y DR. T. MICHELL PRUDDENwith characteristic pictorial illustrations. THE ART OF DRIV1NC By HEN
. The Argonaut . s. ksh^ T^^s^ricy?: NOW READY HARPERS MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER CONTAINS THE SECOND PART OF Mark Twains New Story TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE The most vigorous delineation of American life in the 1st generation since the appearanceof Huckleberry Finn. Illustrations by A. B. Frost. FIRST IN PEACE BY PROFESSOR WOODROW WILSONportraying the character of Washington during the * critical period between t< •? cose c Howard Pvi b. AMONC THE TREES By ANN* C. BRACKETT- A SUMMER AMONCCLIFF DWELLINGS 3y DR. T. MICHELL PRUDDENwith characteristic pictorial illustrations. THE ART OF DRIV1NC By HENRY CHILDS MERVVIN MUSICAL CELEBRITIESOF VIENNA By WILLIAM VON SACHSwith 12 portraits of eminent living composers. THE DEATH OF ESPARTERO A vivid sketch of a Spanish bull fight, by Royal Cortissoz. FOUR GOOD SHORT STORIES HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New Yoi £hX ^£3QGGOGC*l* 10 THE ARGONAUT. August 31, An American play dealing with American char-acters and situations is a thing to be consideredseriously. If we are ever going to have a nationaldrama in this country, we ought to be having itnow. A generation has been bom and grown to areasonable age since the Civil War. How manygenerations have been born and grown to reason-able ages since wealth and culture and leisure wereestablished facts in the East ? As France goes on producing plays, as Englandgoes on producing plays, as Germany goes on pro-ducing plays, we over here sit and wait for our owndramatists to rise up and produce our own plays ;and we are getting tired of waiting. We want tosee our national life on the stage ; we want to seeour own people on the stage ; we want our moneyto go to our own playwrights, and our applause togo to our own actors. The vainest, the most am-bitious, the most jealous of nations, we let theforeign actor carry off our money, and the foreigndramatist monopolize our stage. The English, theFrench, th
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