July 1885

Articles

• The Two Elizabeths

  A poem

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Southwestern Kansas Seen With Eastern Eyes

  “Acres upon acres of the stalks of corn or sorghum cane stood like regiments of soldiers in solid phalanx; hawks in great numbers flapped their wings over the fields where wheat or millet had lately been harvested; but between the tracts that had been cultivated lay vast stretches of unbroken prairie.”

  M. H. Leonard

• The New Portfolio

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Garibaldi's Ideas

  W. L. Alden

• Roses

  Nora Perry

• England, Russia, and India

• Two English Men of Letters

• Paradise Found

• The Singular Case of Jeshurun Barker

  John Wilkinson

• A Chat in the Saddle

• Francisque Sarcey

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

• Childhood in Mediæval Art

  Horace Elisha Scudder

• The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• Bacchus

  Frank Dempster Sherman

• A Mexican Vacation Week

  Sylvester Baxter

• A Country Gentleman

  M. O. W. Oliphant

• Tempted

  Andrew Hedbrook

• A Bit of Bird-Life

  Olive Thorne Miller

• China Speaks for Herself

• Daniel De Foe and Thomas Shepard

  Edward Everett Hale

• On Horseback

  Charles Dudley Warner

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