July 1890

Articles

• Science and the African Problem

  “The African and European races must ... both march forward with entire equality of privilege as far as the state is concerned, yet without the bond of kinship in blood to unite them in the work of life, — indeed, with a sense that it is their duty to remain apart.”

  N. S. Shaler

• Too Young for Love

  A poem

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Felicia

  Fanny N. D. Murfree

• Fire Horses

  Henry Childs Merwin

• The Language of the Recent Norwegian Writers

  William H. Carpenter

• A Vesuvian Episode

  William Chauncy Langdon

• An American Definition of Gothic Architecture

• The Master of the Magicians

• Poeta Nascitur

• Promising Blunders

• Comte and His American Disciples

• In Praise of Leisure: A Summer Symposium

• Books of the Month

• Richard Henry Lee

  Frank Gaylord Cook

• Wendell Phillips

  Wendell P. Stafford

• Sidney

  Margaret Deland

• In a Volume of Sir Thomas Browne

  James Russell Lowell

• The Status of Athletics in American Colleges

  Albert Bushnell Hart

• The Town Poor

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• Odysseus and Nausicaa

  William Cranston Lawton

• Over the Teacups

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

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