December 1900

In This Issue
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Articles
Art in Language
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.”
Verses
The Story of a New England Town
War as a Moral Medicine
The Tory Lover
The Dominance of the Crowd
The Bird of Passage: An Ode to Instrumental Music
Washington : The City of Leisure
The Mist
Penelope's Irish Experiences
The Watcher by the Threshold
Sunrise
A Little Christ at Swanson's
The Maintenance of a Poet
The Day of the Child
New Ideals in Musical Education
A Little Change
You Leave No Room to Mourn
The Best Isthmian Canal
William Henry Seward
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
