October 1884

Articles

• Southern Colleges and Schools

  “There has been no great advance, if any, in college work in the South since the war, and in preparation for college there has been a positive decline in most of the States.”

  Charles Forster Smith

• In War Time

  Silas Weir Mitchell

• The Battle of Lake George

  F. Parkman

• Ave: [Prelude to "Illustrated Poems"]

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Relation of Fairies to Religion

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

• An English Literary Cousin

  Louise Imogen Guiney

• The Lakes of Upper Italy

• In Tuscany

  Celia Thaxter

• Minor Songsters

  Bradford Torrey

• Washington and His Companions Viewed Face to Face

  George Houghton

• Buckshot: A Record

  J. Howard Corbyn

• Boating

  Augustus M. Lord

• The Migrations of the Gods

  William Shields Liscomb

• A Bourgeois Family

  Margaret Bertha Wright

• The Solitary Bee

  Edith M. Thomas

• Palmer's Odyssey

• The Life of Bayard Taylor

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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