December 1900

Articles

• Art in Language

  Benjamin Ide Wheeler

• An Alpine Christmas Play

  “We saw as in a vision the shepherds who watched their flocks by night; we heard as in a dream the song of glory to God and peace to man which, floating from the Syrian skies, has been borne to the farthest ends of the earth.”

  E. Martinengo-Cesaresco

• Verses

  James Russell Lowell

• The Story of a New England Town

  John Fiske

• War as a Moral Medicine

  Goldwin Smith

• The Tory Lover

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• The Dominance of the Crowd

  Gerald Stanley Lee

• The Bird of Passage: An Ode to Instrumental Music

  Owen Wister

• Washington : The City of Leisure

  A. Maurice Low

• The Mist

  John B. Tabb

• Penelope's Irish Experiences

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

• The Watcher by the Threshold

  John Buchan

• Sunrise

  Stuart Sterne

• A Little Christ at Swanson's

  Florence Wilkinson

• The Maintenance of a Poet

  F. B. Sanborn

• The Day of the Child

  Ellen Boyd Findlay

• New Ideals in Musical Education

  Waldo S. Pratt

• A Little Change

  Eliza Orne White

• You Leave No Room to Mourn

  Hildegarde Hawthorne

• The Best Isthmian Canal

  Henry L. Abbot

• William Henry Seward

  Walter Allen

• The Letters of Thomas Edward Brown

• Charles Dudley Warner

• A Bit of the Gospel According to Stevenson

• Profanity as a Resource

• Pot-Boiling

• The Glittering Generality, Woman

• The Inaccuracy of Accuracy

• The Passing Bell

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