November 1889

Articles

• Character of Democracy in the United States

  “Successful democracy differs from unsuccessful in being a product of history, — a product of forces not suddenly become operative, but slowly working upon whole peoples for generations together.”

  Woodrow Wilson

• The Begum's Daughter

  Edwin Lassetter Bynner

• Anteros

  Edith M. Thomas

• The French-in-Canada

  Eben Greenough Scott

• The First Mayor

  Octave Thanet

• Some Romances of the Revolution

  Edward F. Hayward

• Allston and His Unfinished Picture: Passages From the Journals of R. H. Dana

  Charles Francis Adams

• The Nieces of Mazarin

  Hope Notnor

• The Tragic Muse

  Henry James

• Materials for Landscape Art in America

  Charles H. Moore

• A Problem

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

• Marie Bashkirtseff

  Sophia Kirk

• Roosevelt's the Winning of the West

• Outdoors and Indoors

• Franklin, Washington, Lincoln

• The Rock and the Singing Tree

• A New England Barny O'Reirdon

• Unwritten Fiction

• Books of the Month

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