June 1893

Articles

• A National Vice

  “To be gregarious within proper limits tends to health and sanity, to good nature and charity. … but this much may be affirmed: every man’s life should have a background of solitude; there should be times when he walks alone, reads alone, thinks alone.”

  Henry Childs Merwin

• The Prime Need of American Biology, A Marine Observatory

  “These studies appeal to the mind and to the heart at every stage of our intellectual existence. They keep alive that innate love of nature which is so essential a foundation of happiness and well-being.”

  C. O. Whitman

• The Hayes Administration

  “The detailed history of the events occurring during President Hayes’s term would have its interest as illustrating the ordinary business of the country in time of peace.”

  Jacob Dolson Cox

• Miss Austen and Miss Ferrier

  Contrast and comparison

  Charles Townsend Copeland

• New Facts Concerning the Pantheon

  Rodolfo Lanciani

• At Four O'Clock in the Morning

  Olive Thorne Miller

• The Pygmies of Africa

  John Dean Caton

• An Island Plant: In Three Parts

  Mary Catherine Lee

• On the River at Night

  Marion Couthouy Smith

• Ennui

  Agnes Repplier

• Womanhood in the Iliad

  William Cranston Lawton

• Two Faces

  Emma Huntington Nason

• Some Reminiscences of Dr. Schliemann

  J. Irving Manatt

• The Future of Local Libraries

  Justin Winsor

• The Educational Trend of the Northwest

  D. L. Kiehle

• Chocorua in Literature

• Comment on New Books

• Literary Lack of Logic

• A Shelley Haunt

• Behind the Scenes

• Shelley, With a Codicil

• Port Versus Claret

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