December 1881

Articles

• Caste in American Society

  "American society is an anomaly which must puzzle all those who do not believe in it..."

  Kate Garnnett Wells

• Origin of Crime in Society (Part II)

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

  Richard L. Dugdale

• Dr. Breen's Practice

  William Dean Howells

• Shakespeare and Berlioz

  Theodore Child

• The Portrait of a Lady

  Henry James Jr.

• The Parting of the Ways

  W. C. L.

• The Habitant of Lower Canada

  Edward Farrer

• British State Assassins and the Defense of Insanity

  James W. Clarke

• Hester's Dower

  S. A. L. E. M.

• Socialists in a German University

  Willard Brown

• At Canterbury

  Harriet W. Preston

• Pyrrhus' Ring

  Edith M. Thomas

• East of the Jordan, and Other Books of Travel

  Charles G. Leland

• Buddha and Early Buddhism

• Mark Twain's New Departure

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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