August 1887

Articles

• The Goophered Grapevine

  A short story

  Charles W. Chesnutt

• The Growth of Materialism

  “One of the most common of current phrases is that of having a good time, and too generally it is employed as an excuse for some gross evasion of duty, some ignoble yielding to a shameful egotism, some contemptible concession to a self-indulged, pithless inclination.”

  George Frederic Parsons

• Two Years With Old Hickory

  “I give you these little sketches of the old chief’s character that you may see the real causes of his prosperous life. It is only an alliance of private virtues with qualifications for public usefulness that has given General Jackson such prominence in the hearts and confidence of his countrymen.”

  Thomas H. Clay

• Personal Characteristics of Charles Reade

  E. H. House

• The Second Son

  M. O. W. Oliphant and Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Jean-François Millet: Villanelle

  Graham R. Tomson

• The Spell of the Russian Writers

  Harriet Waters Preston

• Our Hundred Days in Europe

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Mummy

• Paul Patoff

  F. Marion Crawford

• The Alkestis of Euripides

  William Cranston Lawton

• To E. M. T

  Alice Williams Brotherton

• A Mad Englishman

  Margaret Crosby

• Anne Gilchrist

• What Is Vulgarity?

• Short-Hand Writing

• Another Interpretation

• Books of the Month

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