October 1881

Articles

• River Driftwood

  "The river is always young. How many sailors have gone down to the sea along its channel, and from what strange countries have the ships come in and brought them home again up this crooked highway!"  

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• Origin of Crime in Society (Part I)

  The first installment in a sociologist’s three-part study

  Richard L. Dugdale

• Dr. Breen's Practice

  William Dean Howells

• Carlyle's Laugh

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Martha

  Julia C. R. Dorr

• The Two Hamlets

  Richard Grant White

• The Portrait of a Lady

  Henry James Jr.

• A Tropical Sequence

  Charles Warren Stoddard

• My Neighbor's Ring

  Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

• The Katrina Saga: In Two Parts. Part Ii

  H. H.

• Is God Good?

  E. Stuart Phelps

• Place De La Bastille, Paris

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Dean Stanley

  Phillips Brooks

• Some Recent Novels

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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