April 1888

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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.”

  Francis Gaylord Cook

• Yone Santo: A Child of Japan

  E. H. House

• English Faith in Art

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

• The Aspern Papers: In Three Parts. Part Second

  Henry James

• Turner's Old Téméraire: Under a Figure Symbolizing the Church

  James Russell Lowell

• Ferdinand Lassalle, the Socialist

  D. O. Kellogg

• To My Infant Son

  Arlo Bates

• First Crisis of the American Revolution

  John Fiske

• The Despot of Broomsedge Cove

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• Brownell

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Mr. Lowell's New Poems

• Darwin's Life

• A Winter Problem

• Pleasant People

• Books of the Month

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