August 1897

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Articles
The American Forests
“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, and avalanches; but he cannot save them from fools, — only Uncle Sam can do that.”
Strivings of the Negro People
“It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.”
Some Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift
A Typical Kansas Community
A Massachusetts Shoe Town
Butterfield & Co.: In Two Parts. Part One
Within the Walls
Out of Bondage
The Holy Picture
The Pause in Criticism -- And After
The Delinquent in Art and in Literature
The Juggler
A Great Biography: Mahan's Nelson
A Forest Policy in Suspense
Verse Under Prosaic Conditions
Illustrations of North American Butterflies
The Confession of a Lover of Romance
