August 1896

Articles

• The Future of American Colleges and Universities

  “The eyes of educated men throughout the country will henceforth be directed to these new universities as exponents of a desire and an endeavor to secure for the twentieth century higher, better and more varied education.”

  D. C. Gilman

• Days With Mrs. Stowe

  Annie Fields

• Present Conditions of Literary Production

  Paul Shorey

• The Spirit of an Illinois Town: In Three Parts. Part One

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood

• Sintamaskin: A Midwinter Fairyland

  C. Grant La Farge

• A Holiday With Montaigne

  Henry D. Sedgwick Jr.

• The Old Things

  Henry James

• About Faces in Japanese Art

  Lafcadio Hearn

• Poetic Rhythms in Prose

  Edward E. Hale Jr.

• Athénaïse: A Story of a Temperament: In Two Parts. Part One

  Kate Chopin

• Letters of D. G. Rossetti: Iv. 1859-1870

  George Birkbeck Hill

• A Literary Model

  Mary Boardman Sheldon

• Passages From Judith and Holofernes

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Eugene Field and His Work

• Four New Novels

• Comment on New Books

• Reminiscences of Mrs. Alexander Hamilton

• In the Shadow of Frivolous Ancestors

• Beginning Civilization Over Again

• What Factory Girls Read

• An August Memory

• An Unworked Field of Romance

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