September 1877

Articles

• Consular Service and Society in Egypt

  “A small number of European families … keep up their spirits under a species of exile, and maintain with vigorous earnestness the forms of friendly intercourse … partly due, no doubt, to the favorable natural characteristics of the country, to its delicious winter climate, … to its interesting historical associations.”

  Charles Hale

• Dickens’s Great Expectations

  “The idea of an innocent boy establishing unconsciously an immense influence over the mind of a hunted felon … haunted Dickens’s imagination until he gathered round it a whole new world of characters and incidents.”

  E. P. Whipple

• The Queen of Sheba

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Box

  Edgar Fawcett

• Fictitious Lives of Chaucer

  Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

• A Study of De Stendhal

  Eugene Benson

• The Silver Bridge

  Elizabeth Akers Allen

• A Counterfeit Presentment: Comedy. In Three Parts. Part Second

  William Dean Howells

• Crude and Curious Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition

  Edward H. Knight

• The Temptation of Gabriel

  Catherine J. Schiller

• Waverley Oaks

• The Child of the State

  S. A. L. E. M.

• Are Titles and Debts Property?

  David A. Wells

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

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