October 1883

Articles

• Recollections of Rome During the Italian Revolution (Part I)

  The first in a three-part series of reflections on religion and governance in the papal city

  William Chauncy Langdon

• Persepolis

  A poem

  Frances L. Mace

• Historic Notes of Life and Letters in Massachusetts

  “The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages, mightier than it knew, with instincts instead of science, like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of preparing it through chemic and culinary skill, — warm negro ages of sentiment and vegetation, — all gone; another hour had struck and other forms arose.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A Roman Singer

  F. Marion Crawford

• Heredity

  Henry W. Holland

• En Province

  Henry James

• Cream-White and Crow-Black

  E. M. De Jarnette

• Newport

  George Parsons Lathrop

• Two Emigrants

  Barbara Heaton

• Mænadism in Religion

  Elizabeth Robins

• Père Antoine

  Davida Coit

• Volcano Studies

  Horace D. Warner

• Knowledge

• The Mutilation of Ancient Texts

  William S. Liscomb

• Amiability: A Philosophical Tragedy

  Edward Irenæus Stevenson

• A-Playin' of Old Sledge at the Settlemint

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• The Voyage of the Jeannette

• Mr. White on Shakespeare and Sheridan

• Lodge's Webster

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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