William Dean Howells

Reviews and Literary Notices

Magazine February 1867

A review by William Dean Howells of Herman Melville's "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War"… More »

Recollections of an Atlantic Editorship

Magazine November 1907

The magazine was already established in its traditions when I came to it, and when I left it fifteen years later it seemed to me that if I had done any good it was little more than to fix it more firmly in them.… More »

Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories

Magazine May 1900

A review… More »

Niagara Revisited,—Twelve Years After Their Wedding Journey

Magazine May 1883

A short story… More »

Police Report

Magazine January 1882

"I do not remember just what whim it was that led me to visit the police court ... perhaps it was because, in my revolt against unreality, I was in the humor to see life whose reality asserts itself every day in the newspapers with indisputable force"… More »

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