August 1897

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.”

  John Muir

• 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.”

  W. E. B. Du Bois

• Some Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift

  George Birkbeck Hill

• A Typical Kansas Community

  William Allen White

• A Massachusetts Shoe Town

  Alvan F. Sanborn

• Butterfield & Co.: In Two Parts. Part One

  Frances Courtenay Baylor

• Within the Walls

  Guy H. Scull

• Out of Bondage

  Rowland E. Robinson

• The Holy Picture

  Harriet Lewis Bradley

• The Pause in Criticism -- And After

  William Roscoe Thayer

• The Delinquent in Art and in Literature

  Enrico Ferri

• The Juggler

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• 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

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