June 1896

Articles

• Restriction of Immigration

  "The question to-day is ... of protecting the American rate of wages, the American standard of living, and the quality of American citizenship from degradation through the tumultuous access of vast throngs of ignorant and brutalized peasantry from the countries of eastern and southern Europe."

  Francis A. Walker

• The Old Things

  Henry James

• The "Bird of the Musical Wing"

  Olive Thorne Miller

• The Humming-Bird

  Ednah Proctor Clarke

• Letters of D. G. Rossetti: Ii. 1855

  George Birkbeck Hill

• In a Famous French Home

  Mary Argyle Taylor

• Lord Howe's Commission to Pacify the Colonies

  Paul Leicester Ford

• The Price of a Cow

  Elizabeth W. Bellamy

• Orestes Brownson

  George Parsons Lathrop

• The Oubliette

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood

• The Opera Before the Court of Reason

  William F. Biddle

• The Flight of the Arrow

  Richard Henry Stoddard

• The Whirligig of Fortune

  T. R. Sullivan

• The Politician and the Public School: Indianapolis and Cleveland

  L. H. Jones

• Dr. Holmes--Sic Sedebat

• Recent Studies in American History

• The Philosophy of Enjoyment of Art

• Comment on New Books

• An Hour With Pasteur

• A Child's Tragedy

• Jonas and Matilda

• A Singular Horseback Journey

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