May 1894

Articles

• Egotism in Contemporary Art

  “What the artist claims is the exercise of personality for the sake of freedom. What he really assumes is the exercise of personality for its own sake.”

  Royal Cortissoz

• The Ethical Problem of the Public Schools

  “What is the public school system achieving for public morals?”

  William Frederick Slocum Jr.

• Philip and His Wife

  Margaret Deland

• From Blomidon to Smoky

  Frank Bolles

• The Henry

  T. C. Mendenhall

• Achilles in Orcus

  Elizabeth Stoddard

• Three Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue

  Gilbert Parker

• Talk at a Country House: Taking Leave; Émile Souvestre; Edward Lear; Retrospect

  Sir Edward Strachey

• Behind Hymettus: In Two Parts. Part One

  J. Irving Manatt

• Where? Based Upon a Folk-Song in the Bard of the Dimbovitza

  Richard Henry Stoddard

• The Queen of Clubs

  Eliza Orne White

• Francis Parkman

  Justin Winsor and John Fiske

• Henry Vaughan the Silurist

  Louise Imogen Guiney

• The Encyclicals of Pope Leo Xiii

• Poetry in General and in Particular

• Comment on New Books

• Letter to a Friend From the Far West

  Franklin Eastman

• The Carpets of the Year

• The Enmities of Literature

• Under a Blue Umbrella

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