January 1889

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Articles

• Studies of Factory Life: The American and the Mill

  The final installment in a four-part series on American cotton manufacturing.

  Lillie B. Chace Wyman

• A Difficult Problem in Politics

  “Though [the United States] possess a common spirit, common habits, sentiments, interests, and social conditions, yet in the regulation of these interests and conditions they assume toward one another the attitude of foreign states.”

  Francis Gaylord Cook

• The Tragic Muse

  Henry James

• The Solitaire

  Olive Thorne Miller

• Parleying

  Louise Chandler Moulton

• Some Characteristics of Von Moltke

  Philip Dymond

• Recent American History

• The Depths of the Ocean

• Matthew Fontaine Maury

• Eyes and No Eyes: A New Version

• On a Certain Insubordination in Fictitious Characters

• The Melodrama of Childhood

• Patent Anti-Bore

• The Potency of Individuality

• Books of the Month

• Washington's Great Campaign of 1776

  John Fiske

• Alec Yeaton's Son: Gloucester, August, 1720

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Passe Rose

  Arthur Sherburne Hardy

• Palm Sunday in Puebla De Los Angeles

  F. Hopkinson Smith

• The Athletic Problem in Education

  N. S. Shaler

• The Cricket

  James B. Kenyon

• Mr. Tommy Dove

  Margaret Deland

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