June 1879

Articles

• Physical Future of the American People

  “The America of the future, as the America of the present, must be a nation where riches and culture are restricted to the few, — to a body, however, the personnel of which is constantly changing.”

  George M. Beard

• Study of a New England Factory Town

• Art in Engraving on Wood

  W. J. Linton

• Rhymes in Many Moods

  Emily E. Ford, Caroline A. Mason, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Susan E. Wallace, Edgar Fawcett, John Boit, Sylvester Baxter, Juliet C. Marsh, E. M. Bacon, and Louis H. Fréchette

• The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote

  Charles Dudley Warner

• Buying a Horse

  William Dean Howells

• Recent American Novels

• Irene the Missionary

• Dobson's Proverbs in Porcelain

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The Two New York Exhibitions

• A Sunday on the Thames

  Richard Grant White

• Miss Martin

  Annie Porter

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

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