SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE Contents Christmas Number 1921 IT WAS A DREAM From a drawing by Florence Minard to illus trate "To Avernus and Out." WHEN I GREW UP TO MIDDLE-AGE. Poem Maxwell Struthers Burt NEW ENGLAND Illustrations by Beatrice Stevens. TO AVERNUS AND OUT-A Story LEAVES FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY — GENERAL GRANT-ROSCOE CONK- THREE GREAT LADIES. Poem Illustrations by John Wolcott Adams. PAINLESS THINKING Ella M. Boult Henry van Dyke' Chauncey M. Depew IN THE NAME OF THE COMMONWEALTH Edgar James Swift. 680 .686 THE POINT OF VIEW-A Christmas Sheaf-The Christmas Guests-The Reindeer Toboggan . . Thomas G. Tucker John Biggs, Jr. Shirley L. Seifert THE FIELD OF ART-Theodore Robinson Eliot Clark after the Armistice Alexander Dana Noyes THE FINANCIAL SITUATION-Three Years 769 PUBLISHED MONTHLY. PRICE, 35 CENTS A NUMBER; $4.00 A YEAR Copyrighted in 1921 in United States, Canada, and Great Britain, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Printed in New York. All rights reserved. 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Signed Name Address On receipt of your memo I will remit $4.00. Check may be sent with order WITHOUT COST TO YOU Sign the coupon and we will include without cost a copy of the current issue of SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE LIBRARY SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE VOL. LXX DECEMBER, 1921 NO. 6 When I Grew Up to Middle-Age BY MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT WHEN I grew up to middle-age, Trees beside and trees above him, There he lived and ate and thought, And smoked, and fished, and drank, Lord love him! And drank Lord love him? None correcter; A splendid drink resembling nectar, Or golden ale, upon the brim Bubbles came up like dreams to him: Bees were very good to him, "Fruit," said he, "is from the Lord;" And from the Lord are books and light, The sharp and sudden scent of roses. (His neighbors thought it very queer A man should love birds, books, and beer; Copyrighted in 1921 in United States, Canada, and Great Britain, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Printed in New York. All rights reserved. |