September 1891

Articles

• The Author Himself

  "In every case of literary immortality there is present originative personality ... origination which takes its stamp and character from the originator, which is his substance given to the world, which is himself outspoken."

  Woodrow Wilson

• The Disturber of Traffic

  "What he wanted to tell the captain was that Flores Strait was too streaky, like bacon, and the steamers only made it worse; but all he could do was to keep his eye very careful on the rigging and sing"

  Rudyard Kipling

• At the Market of the Dead

  Lafcadio Hearn

• Rabiah's Defense

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Speech as a Barrier Between Man and Beast

  E. P. Evans

• Song for Setting: Inscribed to Karl Pflueger, Melodist

  Thomas William Parsons

• Dyer's Hollow

  Bradford Torrey

• The House of Martha

  Frank R. Stockton

• Town Life in Arkansas

  Octave Thanet

• A Study of Analogy

  John Burroughs

• An Innocent Life

  Lillie B. Chace Wyman

• The Quest of a Cup

  Alice Brown

• Europe and Cathay

  John Fiske

• Forecasting

  Philip Bourke Marston

• The Lady of Fort St. John

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood

• Courts of Conciliation

  Nicolay Grevstad

• A Modern Mystic

• Comment on New Books

• An Experience in Recollecting

• Some Unwritten Poems of "The Pathetic"

• A Genius for Friendship

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