April 1888

In This Issue
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Articles
The Marriage Celebration in the United States
“The Puritans firmly implanted in our social soil ‘the strict Protestant principle that marriage is purely a civil right,’ and there has always been a tendency to interpret strictly all legislative restriction or limitation upon the exercise of that right.”
Yone Santo: A Child of Japan
English Faith in Art
The Aspern Papers: In Three Parts. Part Second
Turner's Old Téméraire: Under a Figure Symbolizing the Church
Ferdinand Lassalle, the Socialist
To My Infant Son
First Crisis of the American Revolution
The Despot of Broomsedge Cove
Brownell
Mr. Lowell's New Poems
Darwin's Life
A Winter Problem
Pleasant People
Books of the Month
