January 1888

Articles

• Unpublished Letters of Franklin to Strahan

  A correspondence between the Founding Father and a fellow bookseller reveals much about eighteenth century printing—and Benjamin Franklin's character.

  Benjamin Franklin

• The History of Children’s Books

  “There have been children’s stories and folk-tales ever since man first learned to speak. Children’s books, however, are a late growth of literature.”

  C. M. Hewins

• Yone Santo: A Child of Japan

  E. H. House

• On Whittier's Eightieth Birthday

  Frances L. Mace

• Monadnock in Autumn

  Edna Dean Proctor

• After "Our Hundred Days"

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Howells's Modern Italian Poets

• Scudder's Men and Letters

• The Bread-and-Butter Moments of the Mind

• A Word for Silent Partners

• Vicissitudes of Verse

• Books of the Month

• Judson's Remorse

  Lillie Chace Wyman

• The Lost Earl

  John Trowbridge

• The Golden Hesperides

  Charles Dudley Warner

• The Second Son

  M. O. W. Oliphant and Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Constantinople

  Theodore Child

• A Liberal Education

  Edward J. Lowell

• The Secret

  James Russell Lowell

• The Despot of Broomsedge Cove

  Charles Egbert Craddock

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