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WALTER HINES. Editor and diplomat. Born in 1855 at Cary, the English weather. Thus in 1905 an that known to the modern generation of Englishmen was carried out with success at Dorset. The fashion spread throughout England, Ireland and Scotland, and since then many successful the proceeds have been used for public purposes.

N. C., and educated at Randolph- pageants have been given in those coun- Macon College, Virginia. He entered tries. The celebrations have usually newspaper work in 1880 as editor been held on several days in a week, and of a paper in St. Joseph (Mo.). Later he served on the editorial staff of the "New York World" and the "New York Evening Post." From 1890-1895 he was the editor of "The Forum," and later became editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" and the "World's Work." He was a member of the firm of Doubleday, Page, and Co. publishers, from 1899 until his death in 1918. In 1913 President Wilson appointed Page Ambassador to Great Britain, and both during the period of American neutrality and later partici-

The equable climate of America has tended to the development of the pageant and historic tableaus have become the fashion, particularly at women's colleges, during the milder half of the year. In 1889 New York saw a national pageant reproducing "Dramatic Events in the History of New York." The carnivals of the Southern States have never been without their pictorial representations. At New York in 1914 was staged 1 PAGODA PAINE German and British a pageant of the various nationalities of trade, commercial treatment, etc. This America who exhibited their national harbor was occupied by the United sang historic songs. States in 1898. Tutuila, the island on Tableaux of various kinds, in which whose coast this harbor is located, has large numbers of children take part, a population of about 6,000, area 77 have become increasing features of cen- square miles, while Upolu has an area tennial and similar celebrations. The of 340 square miles, and Savaii 659 Hudson -Fulton celebration of 1909, the Lake Erie celebration of 1913, and the Star-Spangled Banner celebration of 1914, had also numerous dramatic features, and were conducted on a scale unknown in Europe. The course of the World War, particularly after the United States had entered into it, led to the warlike ardor of the people. In numerous celebrations intended to excite 1920 the events connected with the canonization of St. Jeanne d'Arc gave occasion to pageants in New York and elsewhere reproducing episodes in the career of the girl-warrior and expressive of sympathy with France as chief sufferer in the World War.