December 1893

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.”

  Woodrow Wilson

• Democracy in America

  “The evolution of man is the hope of the state.”

  Francis Newton Thorpe

• The Man From Aidone

  Elisabeth Cavazza

• Thoreau and His English Friend Thomas Cholmondeley

  F. B. Sanborn

• Birds at Yule-Tide

  Frank Bolles

• The Blazing Heart

  Alice Williams Brotherton

• Of the Eternal Feminine

  Lafcadio Hearn

• Tom O' the Blueb'ry Plains

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

• In the Flat-Woods

  Bradford Torrey

• His Vanished Star

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• Western Landscapes

  Hamlin Garland

• Ideal Transit

• Chaucer's Pardoner

  George Lyman Kittredge

• 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

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