May 1884

Articles

• The Progress of Nationalism

  “There is no longer a vestige of pure Jeffersonianism in our politics. When the exercise of any new power by the general government is proposed, the objection that that power is not expressly conferred by the Constitution is never heard.”

  Edward Stanwood

• A Roman Singer

  F. Marion Crawford

• The Anatomizing of William Shakespeare

  Richard Grant White

• Linguistic Palæontology

  E. P. Evans

• The Arbutus

  H. H.

• En Province

  Henry James

• At Bent's Hotel

  E. W. Bellamy

• Dew of Parnassus

  Edith M. Thomas

• Matthew Arnold as a Poet

  Harriet Waters Preston

• In War Time

  Silas Weir Mitchell

• Governor Thomas Hutchinson

  G. E. Ellis

• The Silver Danger

  J. Laurence Laughlin

• William H. Seward

  Henry Cabot Lodge

• Maréchal Niel

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Recent American Fiction

• Tuttle's History of Prussia

• Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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