September 1897

Articles

• Municipal Administration: The New York Police Force

  America’s 26th president described his efforts to combat corruption and crime as the New York City Police Commissioner.

  Theodore Roosevelt

• On Being Human

  “Once it was a simple enough matter to be a human being, but now it is deeply difficult; because life was once simple, but is now complex, confused, multifarious.”

  Woodrow Wilson

• Are the Rich Growing Richer and the Poor Poorer?

  Carroll D. Wright

• A New Organization for the New Navy

  Ira N. Hollis

• A Southerner in the Peloponnesian War

  Basil L. Gildersleeve

• Some Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift

  George Birkbeck Hill

• The American Notion of Equality

  Henry Childs Merwin

• Our Soldier

  Harriet Lewis Bradley

• Benedicite

  Martha Gilbert Dickinson

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

  Frances Courtenay Baylor

• A Carolina Mountain Pond

  Bradford Torrey

• After the Storm: A Story of the Prairie

  Elia W. Peattie

• Willow Dale

  Lucy S. Conant

• A Second Marriage

  Alice Brown

• In Quest of a Shadow: An Astronomical Experience in Japan

  Mabel Loomis Todd

• A Man and the Sea

  Guy H. Scull

• Men and Letters

  Harriet Waters Preston and Leon H. Vincent

• Portraits

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