December 1893

In This Issue
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Articles
'Mere Literature'
“You can neither tell the story nor conceive the law till you know how the men you speak of regarded themselves and one another; and I know of no way of learning this but by reading the stories they have told of themselves, the songs they have sung, the heroic adventures they have conceived.”
Democracy in America
“The evolution of man is the hope of the state.”
The Man From Aidone
Thoreau and His English Friend Thomas Cholmondeley
Birds at Yule-Tide
The Blazing Heart
Of the Eternal Feminine
Tom O' the Blueb'ry Plains
In the Flat-Woods
His Vanished Star
Western Landscapes
Ideal Transit
Chaucer's Pardoner
Some New Light on Napoleon
The Son of a Prophet
Comment on New Books
The Old Village Academy
A Bit of Pot Luck
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
Fingers of the Holy Apostles
