September 1881

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Articles

• The Future of Harvard Divinity School

  “Christian unity has become essential to withstand the assaults of irreligious agnosticism, materialism, and infidelity. … A service of this kind could be rendered to the Christianity of the future only by the theological and ecclesiastical department of a great non-sectarian and undogmatic university.”

  William Chauncy Langdon

• The Attempt on the President's Life

  A reflection on the assassination of President James Garfield, published as he lay on his deathbed

  E. L. Godkin

• Dr. Breen's Practice

  William Dean Howells

• Koshchei the Deathless; Or, the Diffusion of Fairy-Tales

  John Fiske

• Harvest Noon

  Edith M. Thomas

• In Exile: A Story in Two Parts. Part Ii

  Mary Hallock Foote

• Housekeeping Hereafter

  J. V. Sears

• The Portrait of a Lady

  Henry James Jr.

• Post Prandial: Phi Beta Kappa. 1881

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Katrina Saga: In Two Parts. Part I

  H. H.

• The Dramas of the Elder Dumas

  J. Brander Matthews

• Mr. Howells's New Book

• The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

• Some Recent Biographies

• The English Colonies in America

• Transcendental Physics

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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