July 1897

Articles

• The Making of the Nation

  “The past has made the present, and will make the future. It has made us a nation, despite a variety of life that threatened to keep us at odds amongst ourselves. ... It has taught us how to become strong, and will teach us, if we heed its moral, how to become wise, also, and single-minded.”

  Woodrow Wilson

• The Juggler

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• The Stony Pathway to the Woods

  Olive Thorne Miller

• A Day in June

  Alice Choate Perkins

• A Life Tenant

  Ellen Mackubin

• Nég Créol

  Kate Chopin

• Strauss, the Author of the Life of Jesus

  Countess Von Krockow

• John Sterling, and a Correspondence Between Sterling and Emerson

  John Sterling, Edward Waldo Emerson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Mr. Allen's the Choir Invisible

• The Decline of Legislatures

  E. L. Godkin

• One Fair Daughter

  Ellen Olney Kirk

• The Future of Rural New England

  Alvan F. Sanborn

• Burke: A Centenary Perspective

  Kate Holladay Claghorn

• Jowett and the University Ideal

  W. J. Ashley

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