Contents
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Abolition of Poverty, The Alfred B. Mason . 602
Americanisms, VI., VII., VIII. Richard Grant White 88, 379, 656
Art in Engraving on Wood W. J. Linton . 705
Aspects of American Life .... Charles Dudley Warner 1
Buying a Horse W. D. Howells . 741
Capitalist, The Career of a .... 129
Catholic Cathedral in New York, The New Clarence Cook 173
Catholic Cathedral, The New York : Correspondence 415, 552
Dana, Richard Henry Julius H. Ward 518
Dobson’s Proverbs in Porcelain . Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 774
Easter Hymns from Old Cloisters . Frank Foxcroft . 417
English Civil Service Reform George William Brown 580
Europeans, The, and Other Novels 167
Faïence Violin, The W. H. Bishop 609
Florida Plantation, Our Harriet Beecher Stowe 641
George’s Little Girl M. E. W. S. 619
Ghost Stories ..... H. B. K. . 286
Great French Duel, The Recent . Mark Twain . 177
Great Revolution in Pitcairn, The Mark Twain 295
Indian Territory, The Theodora R. Jenness 444
International Copyright by Judicial Decision Arthur G. Sedgwick 217
Irene the Missionary, I.-V., VI.-IX., X.-XIII. 426, 587, 759
Labor and the Natural Forces Charles Carleton Coffin 426, 587, 553 759
Lady of the Aroostook, The, XI.-XIV., XV.-XXI., XXII - XXVII . W. D.Howells . 193, 338
Land Policy, Our ..... George W. Julian . . 325
Latest Songs of Chivalry, The Harriet W. Preston 12
Leadville, To. H. H. 567
Limited Sovereignty in the United States 184
Living in London . . . Richard Grant White 506
London Streets Richard Grant White 230
Miss Annie Porter . 797
Modern Martyrdom of St. Perpetua, The Harriet Beecher Stowe 154
Monumental Art, Now Dispensation of, The Henry Van Brunt 633
Musicians and Music-Lovers , William F. Apthorp . 145 Natural
Natural History of Politics, The N. S. Shaler . 302
Neighbors at Ponkapog, Our New . Thomas Bailey Aldrich 85
New England Factory Town, Study of a . 689
New York Exhibitions, The Two . 777
New York Theatres. 452
Old Masters, New Lives of the Henry Van Brunt 490
Paris Exhibition, Round the World at the 41
Pension Beaurepas, The Henry James, Jr. 460
People for whom Shakespeare wrote, The, I Charles Dudley Warner 729
Physical Future of the American People George M. Beard 718
Pines of Eden, The .... G. P. Lathrop 48 Presidential
Presidential Electioneering in the Senate 369
Puritanism and Manners F. G. Ireland 159
Recent American Novels 751
Return of the Native, The, and Other Novels . 500
Roman Holiday Twenty Years Ago, A, I., II. W. W. Story 135, . 273
Rosamond and the Conductor Katharine Carrington 311
Student’s Sea Story, A . Harriet Beecher Stowe 100
Sunday on the Thames, A . Richard Grant White 787
Sword and Awl. H. A. Huntington 164
Taylor, Bayard, Reminiscences of R. H Stoddard 242
Universal Suffrage a Failure? Is ... Goldwin Smith . 71
Washington Monument, The, and Mr. Story’s Design An Architect . . 524
Workingman’s Word on Over Production, A Frank Richards . . 497 Workingmen’s Wives
Workingmen’s Wives ... 59
Zola, Emile, as a Critic .... Clara Barnes Martin 650
POETRY.
Ancestors, J. T. Trowbridge ... 9
April, Emily E. Ford ..... 715
Archery, Susan E. Wallace . . . . 717
Artist’s Model, An, Kate Putnam Osgood . 99
Avril, Louis H. Frechette .... 715
Bayard Taylor, John Greenleaf Whittier . 337
Be Like the Sun, Caroline A. Mason . . 717
Betrothal, Edgar Fawcett .... 716
Birthday, A, Harriet Prescott Spofford . 58
Burial of the Poet, The, Henry W. Longfellow 517
Chamber over the Gate, The, Henry W. Longfellow .368
Christopher Aske, The Ballad of, Rose Terry Cooke.283
Daisy’s Fortune-Telling, E. M Bacon . . 715
Day in Colorado, A, Mary Mopes Dodge 488
Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk, The, John Greenleaf Whittier.83
Defiance, A.W. 192
Faint Heart, Lucy Lee Pleasants . . 310
Fancy, A.586
Fleeting Youth, Sylvester Baxter . . .716
Fool’s Prayer, The . . 443
Good-Morrow and Good-Night, John Boit . 716
Landmarks, The, John Greenleaf Whittier . 376
Loves, Juliet C. Marsh 716
Mystery, The, Albert Laighton . , . 153
Prairie-Nest, A, Lucy Larcom . . 144
Presentiment ... ... 716
Rhymes in Many Moods . . • 7l5
Saga of the Quern-Stones, The, Alice Williams Brotherton 458
Second Place, The, Susan Marr Spalding . 216
Seven Wonders of the World, C. P. Cranch 616
Ship from France, The, C. L. Cleaveland . 601
Three Songs, Sallie M. B. Piatt . 183
Two Views of It, C. P. Cranch . . . 717
Witchwork, Harriet Prescott Spofford . 566
CONTRIBUTORS’ CLUB.
A European Journalist’s Experience, 667 ; A Letter to Alexander Hamilton, 112 ; Americanisms, 109 ; A Modern Eden, 106; An American Diplomatist, 537; An English Idiotism, 812 ; A New German Poet, 530 : A Poem of the Future, 671 : A Poor Man taxed out of House and Home, 108 ; A Rest for the Sunflower desired, 814 ; A Royal Road to Learning, 536 : A Southern Woman, 811 : A Thirteen-Hat Boy, 254: Avis and Daisy Miller, 258 ; Baby-Worship, 674 ; Beefsteak of Old England, 254, 813 ; Business Condition of the South, 113 ; Cherbuliez’s Last Book, 252 ; Christian Morality, 532, Classic Metres in English, 533 ; Communal Property in Land, 110 ; Crocker’s Saving versus Spending, 256 ; Domestic Touches in Fiction, 396; Failure of a Good Play, 814; French Quotations, 812 ; Girlhood on the American Plan, 399; Grimness of Country Life, 257 ; Hoarding and Saving versus Spending, 398 ; Immorality of Violin Collecting, 397 ; Is the best lost in Literature !402; James’s Last Story, 106 ; James’s Method, 259 : Horace on Violin Collecting, 814 ; How does America mark us for her own ! 394 ; How do Professional Authors work ? 401; Led Horses,402 ; Luxurious Starvation, 401 ; Magazine Contributors, 528; Maryland Country Life not “grim,” 535; Misconceiving Shakespeare, 116 ;New England Village Life, Real and Imaginary, 806 ; No-Sex Series, 397 ; Offers, 392; One ’s Good things Anticipated, 676 ; Origin of some Nursery Songs, 403; Owning and Owing for a House, 814 ; Owning a Thing and Owing for it, 256 ; Pity the Spring Poets, 809 : Poetry and Moral of Samuel Bass, 110 ; Poverty of New England Geographical Names, 813; Professional Authorship, 809 ; Prose and Poetry, 672 . Reforming the Hyphen, 114 ; Rosamond’s Risk, 812; Shakespeare versus Harvey, 812 ; Slaughter of the Cheyennes, 529; Sun-Myths and Moon Hoaxes, 676; Superstition about Literary Men, 255; The American Girl in Europe, 810; The Descent of Man, 815 ; The Duty of a Reviewer, 534 ; The End of Macleod, 259 : The Rite of Pulse and Brawn, 675; They, Singular Number, 258; Thomas Hardy, 260 : Uncle Sam himself a Cheat, 805 ; Uses of Prosperity, 113 ; Wanted : A Non-Smoking Hero, 536 ; Which Society ? 670 ; “ Young Abraham Cupid,” 673.
EDITORIAL.
RECENT LITERATURE Adams’s Railroads: Their Origin and Problems, 269: Aldrich’s Bédollierre’s The Story of a Cat, 124 ; Allen’s The Blessed Bees, 126 ; Arnold’s Poems, 410 ; Berlioz’s Correspondance Anglo-Saxon Law, 263 : FeulUet’s La Journal d'un Femme, 686 ; Frechette’s POle-Mele Funtaisies et Souvenirs Poetiques, 127 : Gardner’s Grounds and Buildings of the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia 1876,548; Gilder’s The Poet and his Master, and other Poems, 409 ; Gill’s (Mrs.) Six Months in Ascension, Ascension 688: 683 ; Goluuean’s Gobineau’s La La Renaissance: Renaissance: fccenes Scènes Historiques, 271; 271; Goodale’s (Elaine and Dora) Apple-Blossoms, ’ 409; Goodrich’s (Elizabeth P) The Young Folks' Opera, 124; Gréville’s (Henri) Marier sa Fille, 549 ; Hamerton’s Modern Frenchmen, 678 ; Harland’s (Marion) The Dinner Year Book, 684 : Heyse’s Das Ding an sich und andere, 649 ; Hillebrand’s Zeiten, Völker, , und Menschen, 126 ; llitehler’s Work, A History ; Toplady’s of American ’s Rock Literature, OI Ages, 119 405 , Uchnrd’s L'Etoile de Jean, 549 ; Ulbach Simple Amour, 548; White’s Schmidt’s An Introduction to the Rhythmic and Metric of the Classical Languages, 266; Whitman’s (Sarah Helen) Poems, 403; Whitney’s (A. D. T.) Just How: A. Key to the CookBooks, 684 ; Winter’s The Trip to England, 547 ; Winthrop’s Addresses and Speeches, 1869-1879, 681 , Young’s (Jennie J.)The Ceramic Art: A Compendium of the History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain, 544.
EDUCATION. The New Plan for Women’s Instruction at Harvard, 550.