February 1881

Articles

• Who Are the Aryans?

  “We are so accustomed to consider language a mark of race that it is difficult to avoid using linguistic epithets in an ethnological sense, and a good deal of confused thinking sometimes results from this.”

  John Fiske

• Friends: A Duet

  E. Stuart Phelps

• The Wives of Poets

  William M. Rossetti

• Night on the Ocklawaha

  C. E. S.

• The Future of American Shipping

  Henry Hall

• In the Certosa

  Susan Coolidge

• The Portrait of a Lady

  Henry James Jr.

• The Rising of the Curtain

  Henry A. Beers

• German Coöperative Credit-Unions

  Richard T. Ely

• Reminiscences of Washington

• The Wizard Poet

  S. V. Cole

• In London Again

  Richard Grant White

• Is Anything Lost?

  Fanny Albert Doughty

• Dexter's Congregationalism

• Recent Volumes of Short Stories

• The Spell-Bound Fiddler

• Lex Deux Masques of Saint-Victor

• Mr. Tilton's Pictures

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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