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THE history of civilization affords innumer
able illustrations of the power of fiction to
direct the thought, and conduct of men and
women. Our own country, within a relatively
brief period, presents two conspicuous examples
of fiction's force. The Puritan heritage of intol
erance was righteously destroyed by Nathaniel
Hawthorne, through a single story. Later, in a
period of civil strife, our fires of patriotism
were fanned into a blaze by Edward Everett
Hale, in a story.
Just as fiction has swayed the human heart, so
has it been a tremendous stimulus to achieve
ment in science and invention.
The submarine of our day was anticipated fifty
years ago by Jules Verne in his story "Twenty
Thousand Leagues under the Sea." '
The astonishing adventures in aviation that are
thrilling the world today were clairvoyanfly
prophesied by H G.Wells aquarter of a century
ago in his story "The War of the Worlds."
The device of underwater communication that
safeguarded the lives of our boys on the high
seas was first projected by Morgan Robertson
fifteen years ago in a story.
Indeed, the records of human discovery, when
studied with the history of literature, establish
incontroverribly the fact that the realities of
tomorrow are first projected in the fiction
of today
The dean of American letters, William Dean
Howells, expresses tHs thought perfectly in his,
book "Literature and Life," where he says:
"The short story, when it is ranged with others
of its species within the covers of a magazine,
is above all other literary forms the vehicle of
reality and spirituality."
In THE Red BOOK MAGAZINE'S presentation, fiction achieves its maximurh
effectiveness as a vital influence upon economic, social and scientific conditions.
It reflects the needs of the living day. It visions all that the future may hold.
The purpose and scope of The Red Book Magazine which have won for it the appellation
"The Magazine of a Remade World" are clearly defined in the April number by:
Rupert Hughes
m " What's the World Coming To ?
Joseph Hergesheimer in "Ever So Long Ago"
Clarence Budineton Kelland
in "A Daughter of Discontent
F. Britten Austin in "Yellow Magic"
William Dudley Pelley-
in "The Gift of the Dub
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Mary Synon
in "The Night of the Charity Ball"
Bruce Barton in "It's a Great Little Word to
Have on Your Side"
Nalbro Bartley in "The Trouble Shooter"
Holman Day in "Deodat's in Town"
t Grace Ellery Channing
in "Delivered'by Hand".
Royal Brownin "Connie Tries the Uplift"
Beatrice Grimshaw
in "Maddox and the Emma-Pea"
Walter Prichard Eaton
in "The Taming ofOV Buck9;
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