September 1897

In This Issue
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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.
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.”
Are the Rich Growing Richer and the Poor Poorer?
A New Organization for the New Navy
A Southerner in the Peloponnesian War
Some Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift
The American Notion of Equality
Our Soldier
Benedicite
Butterfield & Co.: In Two Parts. Part Two
A Carolina Mountain Pond
After the Storm: A Story of the Prairie
Willow Dale
A Second Marriage
In Quest of a Shadow: An Astronomical Experience in Japan
A Man and the Sea
Men and Letters
Portraits
