May 1892

Articles

• The Present Requirements For Admission to Harvard College

  “The old system of examination aimed to find out whether the candidate had studied those books in language or science which the college recommended. The new system aims to find out whether he can reason and use the knowledge he has gained from those books.”

  James Jay Greenough

• The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence

  R. W. E., F. B. Sanborn, and H. D. T.

• Private Life in Ancient Rome

  Harriet Waters Preston and Louise Dodge

• A Cathedral Courtship

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

• An Attic Poet

  Edward Lucas White

• A Plea for Seriousness

• Severn's Roman Journals

  William Sharp

• Don Orsino

  F. Marion Crawford

• Home Scenes at the Fall of the Confederacy

  David Dodge

• The Soul's Ride

  Lilla Cabot Perry

• The Slaying of the Gerrymander

• From West to East

• Recent American and English Fiction

• Comment on New Books

• Concerning University Extension

• Factotum Here, Sir

• The Melancholy of Modern Fiction

• Royalty in the Genesee Country

• The Actor and Himself

• Ignis Fatuus

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