November 1883

Articles

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

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

  William Chauncy Langdon

• The New Departure in Negro Life

  “He is putting away childish things, and striving in his own crude, grotesque way to grasp matters of higher import.”

  O. W. Blacknall

• Ezra Ripley, D. D.

  “He was a perfectly sincere man, punctual, severe, but just and charitable; and if he made his forms a strait-jacket to others, he wore the same himself all his years.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A Roman Singer

  F. Marion Crawford

• The Trustworthiness of the Hebrew Traditions

  Brooke Herford

• Charon's Fee

• Newport

  George Parsons Lathrop

• A Noble Lady

  Maria Louise Henry

• En Province

  Henry James

• Omens

  Edith M. Thomas

• The Bird of the Morning

  Olive Thorne Miller

• Random Spanish Notes

  Charles Dudley Warner

• An Only Son

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• Venice

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

• What Instruction Should Be Given in Our Colleges?

  Albert S. Bolles

• A Good-by to Rip Van Winkle

  Gilbert A. Pierce

• The Songs That Are Not Sung

  John Boyle O'Reilly

• The East and the West in Recent Fiction

• James Buchanan

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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