January 1892

Articles

• The Greatest Need of College Girls

  “It is so generally felt that man is to admire, and woman to be admired. Thus a woman is born into and inherits a to-be-admired state of mind, and her freedom is delayed in proportion.”

  Annie Payton Call

• Boston

  “We are often praised for what is least ours. Boston too is sometimes pushed into a theatrical attitude of virtue, to which she is not entitled and which she cannot keep. But the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power, and Northern acuteness of mind, which is in nature hostile to oppression.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Don Orsino

  F. Marion Crawford

• Why Socialism Appeals to Artists

  Walter Crane

• The Political Situation

• Recent French Literature

• English Composition

• Comment on New Books

• The Age of Scott's Heroines

• Another Word About Realism

• The New Pastoral Poetry

• A Double Somersault

• In Re Emily Dickinson

• James Russell Lowell

  Henry James

• Birds and "Birds"

  Edith M. Thomas

• John Stuart Mill and the London and Westminster Review

  C. Marion D. Robertson

• Down by the Shore in December

  Thomas William Parsons

• The Creed of the Old South

  Basil L. Gildersleeve

• The Missing Interpreter

  Herbert D. Ward

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