May 1887

Articles

• A Glimpse of Emerson's Boyhood

  J. Elliot Cabot

• China and the United States

  “The Chinese Question is no longer one of diplomatic negotiation as to the admission of that people to the United States, but, considering recent happenings, now involves the honor and good name of our country.”

  A. A. Hayes

• The Courting of Sister Wisby

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• The Last Cæsar: 1851-1870

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Marco Minghetti

  William Chauncy Langdon

• Paul Patoff

  F. Marion Crawford

• The Mænads

  Clinton Scollard

• The Shakespeare-Shapleigh Entanglement

• The Decline of Duty

  George Frederic Parsons

• Our Hundred Days in Europe

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Sonnet: With a Version of Euripides' Alcestis

  William Cranston Lawton

• An Ancient Error

  Andrew Hedbrooke

• French and English: Fifth Paper

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

• Flutterbudget

  Olive Thorne Miller

• The Second Son

  M. O. W. Oliphant and Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The Letter: Edward Rowland Sill (Andrew Hedbrooke), Died February 27, 1887

• Walker's History of the Second Corps

• Light Travel

• A Volume of l'Art

• Tennyson's and Browning's Latest Poems

• Faults or Defects?

• The Keeper-in and the Blurter-Out

• What Is the Oldest Thing in the World?

• German Lyric Poetry vs. French

• The Two Dromios in Every Man's Comedy of Errors

• Books of the Month

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