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This August 1915 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine (No. 783) opens Basil King's new serial "The Side of the Angels" and pairs two N.C. Wyeth illustrations with a landmark early article by the founder of behaviorism.
• Publication: Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. CXXXI, No. 783, "August Fiction Number"
• Illustrations: Two full-page N.C. Wyeth illustrations for "Sea-Green" by Katharine Fullerton Gerould, plus a color frontispiece by C.E. Chambers for "The Return of Martha"
• Fiction: Opening installment of "The Side of the Angels," a new serial by Basil King, author of bestseller "The Inner Shrine"
• Notable science: "Recent Experiments with Homing Birds" by John B. Watson, the Johns Hopkins psychologist who founded behaviorism, reporting animal-navigation fieldwork at the Dry Tortugas
• Poetry: "Renunciation" by Ameen Rihani, a founding figure of Arab-American literature
• Also featuring: W. D. Howells' "Editor's Easy Chair," plus fiction and poetry by Alice Brown, Margaret Cameron, and others
• Period advertising: back-cover ads for Royal Baking Powder and Instant Postum
• Inscription: period ink notation "1915 / Dr. Lisk" on cover
• Condition: Fair - cover present and legible but with significant wear: heavy chipping and loss at spine head and tail, foxing and staining to covers and edges; interior contents clean, complete, and unmarked
Antique, Ephemera, 1910s, Literary History, Illustration Art, N.C. Wyeth, Behaviorism, Arab American Literature
