IN Pianoforte Construction "One imperfection of the modern pianoforte, found even in the instruments made by standard makers, has been the loss in tone quality, due to the inability of the soundingboard to retain its tension. The problem seems at last to have been satisfactorily solved by a most simple and ingenious construction embodied in the pianos of Mason & Hamlin."-From "THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN." Bottom of Grand Pianoforte showing A complete description, as given by "The Scientific American," of this epoch-marking invention will be mailed on application. Mason & Hamlin Co. BOSTON NEW YORK Looking Backward Look backward if you want to look into the future of an Emerson Piano The past half-century will show pianos of this make in all kinds of use-Concert Hall, Church, School and the Home. You may see them after two or three generation's have taken lessons on them, and they will still be good sweet toned and serviceable pianos. Ask people who possess an Emerson (for the purchaser of one seldom parts with it) what they thought of it thirty years ago ten years ago-today? Thus the past becomes a mirror of the Send for catalogue and descriptive booklet of their EMERSON PIANO CO. 120 Boylston St. (Dept Z) 92 Michigan Ave. CHICAGO, IL. BOSTON, MASS. J. C. GRAY. THE ARENA FOR MARCH "A TWENTIETH-CENTURY REVIEW OF OPINION" B. O. FLOWER: EDITOR M. JAURES. THE MASTER-SPIRIT.-Ripened and Revealed. This is the third of a series of papers by RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG, dealing with the history of forty years of political corruption and civic debauchery in Pennsylvania,-a series of papers second in importance to no similar discussion of recent decades. DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS. A PEN-PICTURE OF A GREAT RADICAL MEETING IN PARIS, by Mrs. FRANCES HARDIN HESS. This is the first of a series of papers by THE ARENA's special commissioner in Paris, presenting a fascinating description of one of the most remarkable recent popular meetings-a meeting presided over by M. ANATOLE FRANCE and addressed by M. JAURES and M. PRESSENSSE. Illustrated with portraits of these three gentlemen. THE PRESENT STATUS OF COOPERATION IN GREAT BRITAIN, by J. C. GRAY, Secretary of the Cooperative Union of Great Britain. Comparatively few Americans have any idea of the gigantic strides that have been made in voluntary cooperation in England, Scotland and Wales during the past forty years, yet so stupendous and successful has this ethical movement proved that about forty-five millions of dollars are now annually divided among the coöperators in Great Britain. Many other important papers will appear in this issue, among which we would name THE DIVORCE PROBLEM, by Prof. HENRY GAINES HAWN; an editorial sketch of THE RISE, DOMINANCE AND DOWNFALL OF THE TWEED RING, illustrated with numerous cartoons by THOMAS NAST; AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF DIRECT-LEGISLATION IN SWITZERLAND, by O. K. HEWES; and GERHART HAUPTMANN: SOCIAL IDEALIST, by ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, Ph.D. Order from your Newsdealer. Subscription, $2.50 net a year. THE BRANDT BOOKS 25 Cents a Copy. Foreign postage, 50 Cents additional. ALBERT BRANDT: PUBLISHER TRENTON, N.J. & BOSTON, MASS. THE ARENA |