July 1896

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Articles

• A Century’s Progress in Science

  “The world is in a process of development, and … gradually, as advancing knowledge has enabled us to take a sufficiently wide view of the world, we have come to see that it is so.”

  John Fiske

• The United States and the Anglo-Saxon Future

  “By judicious action, in the right way and at the right time, we may assume for ourselves that position of leadership in organization which England hesitates to take, and thus to make the world-empire of the Anglo-Saxon a certainty.”

  George Burton Adams

• The Real Problems of Democracy

  “The history of nations is the history of incessant attempts, fortunate or unfortunate, to better themselves.”

  E. L. Godkin

• To the Housatonic at Stockbridge

  Robert Underwood Johnson

• Young America in Feathers

  Olive Thorne Miller

• Recent Historical Biography

• Comment on New Books

• A City by Starlight

• Who Was the Imitator,--Dickens or Thackeray?

• The Area of Patriotism

• Cuculus Parlorensis

• The Real Paul and Virginia

• Arbitration and Our Relations With England

  E. J. Phelps

• Letters of D. G. Rossetti: Iii. 1855-1857

  George Birkbeck Hill

• The Old Things

  Henry James

• Deus Absconditus

  John B. Tabb

• The Country of the Pointed Firs

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• The Speculations of a Story-Teller

  G. W. Cable

• Confessions of Public School Teachers

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