February 1889

Articles

• The New Talking Machines

  A noted architect and writer commends Thomas Edison for his progress in developing the phonograph and predicts great things for its future.

  Philip G. Hubert

• The Spirit of American Politics as Shown in the Late Election

  “The masses on either side support the same leaders, use the same catchwords, read the same newspapers, and learn from them all that is good of their own party, and all that is bad of the other, and much that is not true of both.”

  Charles Worcester Clark

• A Plea for Humor

  “Is there no longer such a thing as a recognized absurdity in the world?”

  Agnes Repplier

• A Winter Courtship

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• Butterflies in Disguise

  Samuel H. Scudder

• Passe Rose

  Arthur Sherburne Hardy

• Eurylochus Transformed

  Wendell P. Stafford

• The Tragic Muse

  Henry James

• Under Which King?

  Harriet Waters Preston

• The Gift of Fernseed

  Harry Perry Robinson

• Address to the Assembly at the Opening of the Players' Club in New York

  Thomas William Parsons

• Brianda De Bardaxi

  Henry C. Lea

• Letters of Felix Mendelssohn

• Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries

• Illinois Life in Fiction

• A Theory as to Disparity

• Italian Nick-Names

• A Question in Ethical Geography

• Books of the Month

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