May 1880

Articles

• A Tramp Abroad

  A review

  William Dean Howells

• Mark Twain's New Book

  "It is delicious, whether you open it at the sojourn in Heidelberg, or the voyage down the Neckar on a raft, or the mountaineering in Switzerland, or the excursion beyond Alps into Italy." A review of A Tramp Abroad  

  William Dean Howells

• Ten Days in the Rebel Army

  “I had been in the Union army three years; was it not a good time to give the rebels a trial?”

  S. M. H. Byers

• Wants

  A poem

  Edith Wharton

• The Stillwater Tragedy

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The Examination System in Education

  Willard Brown

• McIntyre's False Face

  William Henry Bishop

• Talent and Genius

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

• A Neglected Poet

  George Edward Woodberry

• Records of W. M. Hunt

  Henry C. Angell

• The Undiscovered Country

  William Dean Howells

• Bluebird's Greeting

  George Parsons Lathrop

• The Democratic Presidential Nomination

• British Americanisms

  Richard Grant White

• Recent Novels

• Farragut

• Metternich

• Zola's Last Novel

  Thomas Sergeant Perry

• Hector Berlioz

• Madame Le Brun

• Symonds's Greek Poets

• The Contributors' Club

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