CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1915

VOLUME 4

NUMBER 6

LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH

NEW YORK WOMEN WHO EARE $50,000 A YEAR—By Anne O'Hagan - - - - 24

IN AND ABOUT THE THEATRE

DE WOLF HOPPER—A Memory by Joseph H. Choate - - - 30

DANCERS OF DISTINCTION NOW IN NEW YORK - - - 34

THEATRICAL HORS D'OEUVRES—Served by Alan Dale 35

HERE ARE LADIES! LEADING LADIES! DANCING LADIES! - 38

WHEN LOVELY WOMEN STOOP TO FOLLIES 39

NOT FAR FROM LONDON—SIX ENGLISH ACTRESSES 48

INA CLAIRE—IN A TRIPLE RÔLE—A Photograph - - - 52

RUTH ST. DENIS AND HER SCHOOL OF DANCING 60

STARS WHO CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE THEM—Aided by Ethel C. Taylor - 62

THE WORLD OF ART

A DOZEN OP THE BEST ILLUSTRATORS IN THE WORLD—All of Them Americans - 28

FRANCE'S ARTISTIC TRIBUTE TO AMERICA—Illustrated 32

VIE DE BOHĖME IN WASHINGTON SQUARE—Sketches by D. & H. Ferriss - - - 36

THE REVIVED INTEREST IN THE MINIATURE—By Arthur Loring Bruce - - - 42

THE WORK OF ARTHUR B. DAVIES—By Frederick James Gregg 44

CECILIA BEAUX—PORTRAIT PAINTHR—By George Gordon Bain 56

MODERN THOUGHTS BY MODERN ESSAYISTS

WILL THE GREAT WAR BE FOUGHT OUT?—By Frederick James Gregg - - - - 31

WHY NOT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR SUICIDES?—By Hyman Strunsky - - - 33

TH' AVENUE—Observations by Charles Macomb Fiandrau 43

CABARABIAN NIGHTS—Reflections on Big Business, By P. G. Wodehouse - - - 45

THE EXPULSION FROM EDEN—(THE MusÉE)—By Pelham Grenville - - - - 63

ALL SERIOUSNESS ASIDE

AFFINITIES—The Sport of Love and the Love of Sport—Sketches by Babette - - 27

THE JITNEY MAID—A Comedy in Verse—By E. L. McKinney 27

MY ROSERY—A Poetic Lament by Mary K. Ford 37

BLUFF À LA MODE—A Play of Discussion—and Action—By Nib 41

ETIQUETTE IN THE MOVIES—By Frederick Lewis Allen 47

CRIME, IN THE MOVIES—By Frank Wright Tuttle 47

THE EIGHTEENTH HOLE—A Modern Golfihg Romance 49

THE SO-CALLED PLEASURES OF CONEY ISLAND—By P. Brooke-Haven - - - 57

A GENERAL SURVEY OF ART—AND HAY FEVER—By Robert C. Benchley - 53

INK-SCAPES OF WAR-TIME LONDON—By Fish 54

THE WEEK-END FAVORITE—By Harry Grant Dart 55

A FEW HINTS ON SOCIAL LETTER WRITING—By Frederick T. Murphy - - - - 57

THE MILITARY INVASION OF AMERICA—PART 2—By P. G. Wodehouse - - - - 58

A HINDU AT THE POLO GROUNDS—By Mahatma Sri Paramananda Guru Swamiji 63

SPORTS AU PLEIN AIR

MISS LILLIAN HYDE—METROPOLITAN GOLF CHAMPION—By Kerr Petry - - 61

EAST VS. WEST IN LAWN TENNIS—By J. Parinly Paret 64

THE MINEOLA DOG SHOW—With Photographs 65

THE UBIQUITOUS MOTOR CAR—Illustrated. 66

LITERATURE

ROBERT W. CHAMBERS—ARTIST—By Arthur Gordon Douglas 37

THE HOKKU, A NEW VERSE FORM—And a Prize Contest 46

WINSTON CHURCHILL, LTD.—And Minor Literary Magnates—By Henry Brinsley -59

MISCELLANIES

MADAME CATULLE MENDES—And a Letter from Sarah Bernhardt 33

S. O. S.—R. S. V. P.—Vanity Fair's Department of Deportment, Conducted by Charles Macomb Flandrau 35

THE HALL OF FAME—And the Month's Nominations for It 40

FOUR KIDS—Photographed, Perhaps, at Bailey's Beach, Newport - - - - - 46

ON THE STUDY OF THE VIOLIN—Advice to Students—By Efrem Zimbalist - - - 55

SHOPPING FOR THE WELL DRESSED MAN—Illustrated 67

WHAT THEY WEAR IN VANITY FAIR

SKETCHING THE AUTUMN SILHOUETTE—Fashion Frontispiece .68

IN THE BOIS AND THEREABOUT—Paris Letter - 69

THE "ON DIT" OF NEWPORT—A Bit of Timely Chatter 70

TOUCHES THAT TELL—Autumn Modes in Accessories - - 71

THE SHOPS OF VANITY FAIR—Clothes to Start the Season 72

FROM THE LOOMS OF AMERICA—The New Autumn Textures - 74

TOLD IN THE BOUDOIR—About Ugliness 78