August 1890

Articles

• A New Race Problem

  “The Alaskan native is still uncivilized, because the effort to transform him was begun so recently that little actual change has been made.”

  John H. Keatley

• International Copyright

  “The writers of the United States, the journalists, the essayists, the novelists, and the historians, all men who work with their pen, would be benefited by this law; and that which helps one class of the community without injuring another helps all.”

  Henry Cabot Lodge

• Sidney

  Margaret Deland

• The Use and Limits of Academic Culture

  N. S. Shaler

• Madame Cornuel and Madame De Coulanges

  Ellen Terry Johnson

• Felicia

  Fanny N. D. Murfree

• Some Aspects of Psychical Research

  O. B. Frothingham

• A Search for a Lost Building

  Andrew Mcfarland Davis

• Revulsion

  H. W. P. and L. D.

• Flammantia MŒnia Mundi

  Annie Fields

• Over the Teacups

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• June in Franconia

  Bradford Torrey

• The Kingbird's Nest

  Olive Thorne Miller

• Haverhill: 1640-1890. Read at the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the City, July 2, 1890

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Some Recent French Novels

• The Last Friend of Napoleon

• Another Side of Rural Life

• Books of the Month

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