November 1885

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Articles

• Some Testimony in the Case

  Conversations with Southerners about race relations and life in the aftermath of the Civil War

  Rebecca Harding Davis

• The Idea of God (Part I)

  The first installment in a two-part series on ancient and modern theology.

  John Fiske

• The Princess Casamassima: Book First

  Henry James

• A Country Gentleman

  M. O. W. Oliphant

• Words, Words, Words: (To One Who Flouted Them as Vain)

  Andrew Hedbrooke

• An Old-Time Grievance

  Edward Stanwood

• How Glooskap Brought the Summer: (Algonquin)

  Frances L. Mace

• Principles of Criticism

  E. R. Sill

• A Tricksy Spirit

  Olive Thorne Miller

• Thackeray as an Art-Critic

  Ephraim Young

• The New Portfolio

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Love's Dread

  Paul Hermes

• Recent Illustrated Books

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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