December 1898

Articles

• Among the Birds of the Yosemite

  "No wonder he sings well, since all the air about him is music."

  John Muir

• The Wholesome Revival of Byron

  "At bottom Byron's sympathy is not with nature, but with man, and in the expression of this sympathy he displays the sturdy strength of classic art"  

  Paul Elmore More

• The United States and the Control of the Tropics

  Benjamin Kidd

• The Name of Old Glory--1898

  James Whitcomb Riley

• European Experience With Tropical Colonies

  W. Alleyne Ireland

• Our Government of Newly Acquired Territory

  Carl Evans Boyd

• Confessions of a Summer Colonist

  William Dean Howells

• Summer Died Last Night

  Maude Caldwell Perry

• The Autobiography of a Revolutionist: The Corps of Pages

  P. Kropotkin

• Quatrain

  John Albert Macy

• The Landscape as a Means of Culture

  N. S. Shaler

• Unpublished Letters of Carlyle

  Charles Townsend Copeland

• California and the Californians

  David Starr Jordan

• An Unpublished Poem by Byron

  Pierre La Rose

• Little Henry and His Bearer

  Flora Annie Steel

• Ten Beautiful Years

  Mary Knight Potter

• M. Edmond Rostand

  Ellery Sedgwick

• Reminiscences of Julia Ward Howe: I. Earliest Years

  Julia Ward Howe

• The Battle of the Strong

  Gilbert Parker

• Old Homes

  Madison Cawein

• Happiness

  Josephine Preston Peabody

• The Last Chapter

• The Two Stages of a Hero

• Scorning Shakespeare's Marriage Dictum

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