January 1884

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Articles

• The Political Field

  “A nation cannot always feed on the strong meat of great controversies. But there are real issues before us, of practical importance, and it is the duty of party leaders to cease skirmishing around their edges, and to meet them fairly.”

  E. V. Smalley

• Lepage’s Joan of Arc

  A poem

  Helen Gray Cone

• In War Time

  Silas Weir Mitchell

• A Sequel to Mr. Washington Adams, in a Letter From Mr. Mansfield Humphreys

  Richard Grant White

• Chester Streets

  H. H.

• Unheard Music

  Edmund W. Gosse

• Illustrated Books

• The Annexation of Heaven

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

• The Bishop's Vagabond

  Octave Thanet

• Ivan Turgénieff

  Henry James

• A Roman Singer

  F. Marion Crawford

• At the Saturday Club

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Study of Greek

  A. P. Peabody

• Newport

  George Parsons Lathrop

• Hâfiz of Shîrâz

  E. P. Evans

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