March 1881

Articles

• The Story of a Great Monopoly

  ”These incidents in railroad history show most of the points where we fail ... to maintain the equities of ‘government’—and employment—‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’”

  H. D. Lloyd

• The End of the War

  “Is the condition of the United States at large, and particularly of the States which went into rebellion, no better, or not much better ... in 1881 than in 1861?”

  Theodore Bacon

• Friends: A Duet

  E. Stuart Phelps

• Arachne

  Rose Terry Cooke

• The Portrait of a Lady

  Henry James Jr.

• The Seven Days

  Frances L. Mace

• New York Theatres

• The Genesis of Genius

  Grant Allen

• Before Dawn

  Maurice Thompson

• The Wives of Poets

  William M. Rossetti

• Random Recollections of England

  Richard Grant White

• Boston to Florence: Sent to "The Philological Circle" of Florence for Its Meeting in Commemoration of Dante, January 27, 1881, Anniversary of His First Condemnation

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Eleventh Hour

  Katharine Carrington

• Recent French and German Essays

• War-Ships and Navies

• Tennyson's New Volume, and Other Poetry

• Challoner's History of Music

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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