September 1879

Articles

• The Use of Numbers in Society

  “Each successive enlargement of man’s progressive desires has made him more and more an agent of change, until now his most advanced races are causing more change in the ways of the earth than all the other organic agents put together.”

  N. S. Shaler

• Cæsar's Art of War and of Writing

• Miss Magdalena Peanuts

  Phæbe Yates Pember

• On Latmos: A Midsummer Night's Dream

  L. W. Backus

• Mountains in Literature

  Thomas Sergeant Perry

• Irene the Missionary

• Married Bohemians

  Edgar Fawcett

• The Race, and Why Yale Lost It

• American Finances From 1789 to 1835

  John Watts Kearny

• Genesis

  Ernest Dale Owen

• Songs and Eccentricities of Birds

  Wilson Flagg

• A Tennysonian Retrospect

  Julius H. Ward

• Recent Novels

• A Lesson in a Picture

  Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

• Nobility and Gentry

  Richard Grant White

• A Word to Philosophers

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

• Story-Paper Literature

  William Henry Bishop

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

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