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THE AUGUST ATLANTIC

The author is William John Hopkins, famous for his Atlantic Success, "The Clammer."

Contributors to the July Atlantic

Mary Johnston ("Gettysburg") is a distinguished American novelist whose first famous novels, "Prisoners of Hope" and "To Have and to Hold," ran serially in the Atlantic. Our readers will also remember a paper on the advancement of women, "The Woman's War," which appeared in April, 1910.

Dorothea Slade ("Gutter-Babies") is a settlement worker in London familiar with every phase of the problem of city poverty.

Henry Kitchell Webster ("The Ingredients") is a successful story-teller whose "Calumet K" is still remembered as one of the most spirited novels of modern business conditions. A play by Mr. Webster, "June Madness," is to be produced in New York next season.

Francis Lynde Stetson (“The Government and the Corporations") is a New York lawyer whose name is associated with many of the largest undertakings of American industrial life.

Evans Woollen ("The Direct-Primary Experiment") is a lawyer of Indianapolis who has long been interested in governmental questions. Karl T. Frederick ("The Significance of the Recall of Judicial Decisions") is a New York lawyer. In connection with this article it should be noted that references to Mr. Roosevelt's Columbus speech are based upon the apparently authoritative version reported in the "Congressional Record." The following extract from the author's correspondence with the Atlantic may be of interest to lawyers:

The precise place of a "recalled decision" in law is an interesting study, though I do not think a very difficult one. Just as new legal concepts have grown up from the decision of particular cases, as in the case of the rule against perpetuities, the rule "respondent superior," or the contributory negligence rule, so I think the law of the Constitution may be altered by this form of amendment. The recall of the decision regarding the constitutionality of a particular act will not necessarily do more than make that precise act constitutional. Courts thereafter reading the Constitution in the light of the fact that that particular act is not unconstitutional may feel that a broad principle has been established and give effect to it accordingly; or they may apply the amendment narrowly. Substantially the same question arises frequently in applying statutes. For example, statutes against usury have always been narrowly construed. Out of other laws, on the other hand, small in themselves, great bodies of law have been built up. As the body of recalled decisions becomes larger, the Constitution or what we may call the Law of the Constitution will

Contributors to the July Atlantic

become more and more unwritten law, a matter of precedent and of principle derived therefrom rather than from anything reduced to formal language. Thus the movement will be toward the English system.

Wilbur Marshall Urban ("The Crisis in Taste") is a professor of philosophy at Trinity College.

Hermann Hagedorn (“Rest at Noon") is an American poet of the younger generation.

H. G. Dwight ("Gardens and Gardens") is an American storywriter, essayist and traveler who sends this agreeable paper from Constantinople.

James O. Fagan ("The Autobiography of an Individualist") is "the railroad signalman" well known to all Atlantic readers.

Ethel Puffer Howes ("The Esthetic Value of Efficiency") was formerly in the Department of Psychology at Wellesley and is now living in a Southern village whose industries she describes in the present paper. Amy Lowell ("The Starling") is the author of three other Atlantic poems. A volume of her collected verse will appear next autumn.

Elizabeth Carter ("The Last Night of the Revival") is a storywriter living in New Jersey.

Morris Schaff ("The Sunset of the Confederacy"), a graduate of West Point and a veteran of the Civil War, is the author of two Atlantic series, "The Spirit of Old West Point" and "The Battle of the Wilder

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Robert Kilburn Root ("The Age of Faith") is a member of the English Department at Princeton.

Earl Barnes ("Women in Industry") was for many years professor of European history in the State University of Indiana and later professor of education in Leland Stanford Junior University.

Margaret Lynn ("The Weapons of Religion") is a member of the English Department in the University of Kansas.

Ellwood Hendrick (“Living Caricatures") is a chemist living in New York who fortunately devotes occasional hours to literature.

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