May 1883

Articles

• Niagara Revisited,—Twelve Years After Their Wedding Journey

  A short story

  William Dean Howells

• Colonialism in the United States

  “We alone can use properly our own resources; and no work in art or literature ever has been, or ever will be, of any real or lasting value which is not true, original, and independent.”

  Henry Cabot Lodge

• The Floods of the Mississippi Valley

  “The perfect control of the Mississippi system of waters is perhaps the greatest engineering problem that our race has ever had to attack.”

  N. S. Shaler

• The Flaneur

  A poem

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Daisy Miller: A Comedy. In Three Acts

  Henry James Jr.

• The Pennyroyal

  Thomas William Parsons

• Life

  S. E. C.

• A Landless Farmer: In Two Parts. Part I

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• The Pauper Question

  D. O. Kellogg

• Winter-Killed

  Helen E. Starbleak

• The "Harnt" That Walks Chilhowee

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• College Athletics

  Andrew M. F. Davis

• The Rain and the Fine Weather

  Edith M. Thomas

• Willow

  C. E. Sutton

• President Monroe

• Mr. Quincy's Reminiscences

• Woodberry's History of Wood-Engraving

• Symonds's Renaissance in Italy

• Recent American Fiction

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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