April 1886

Articles

• 'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reviewed

  The author’s son reviewed the acclaimed novel 36 years after its publication.

  Julian Hawthorne

• Responsible Government Under the Constitution

  “The question is not merely, How shall the methods of Congress be clarified and its ways made purposeful and responsible? There is this greater question at stake: How shall the essential arrangements of the Constitution be preserved?”

  Woodrow Wilson

• Gouverneur Morris

  Henry Cabot Lodge

• Hidden Forces

  A. M. Libby

• Reformation of Charity

  D. O. Kellogg

• The Dulham Ladies

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• Shylock vs. Antonio: A Brief for Plaintiff on Appeal

  Charles Henry Phelps

• Problems of the Scarlet Letter

  Julian Hawthorne

• The Princess Casamassima: Book Third

  Henry James

• Before Sunrise in Winter

  Andrew Hedbrook

• Children, Past and Present

  Agnes Repplier

• In the Clouds

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• Revelation

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Historical Methods

• Madame Mohl's Salon

• Some French Illustrations

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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