March 1901

Articles

• How to Write a Novel for the Masses

  Surefire advice for creating a runaway bestseller

  Charles Battell Loomis

• The Freedmen's Bureau

  “No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth, — What shall be done with slaves?”

  W. E. B. Du Bois

• Mr. McKinley as President

  “He lifted his administration to the plane of those of Washington and Lincoln, and linked his name with theirs for our time, if not for all time.”

  Henry B. F. Macfarland

• Democracy and Efficiency

  “As we grow older, we grow also perplexed and awkward in the doing of justice and in the perfecting and safe-guarding of liberty. It is character and good principle ... which are to save us, if we are to escape disaster.”

  Woodrow Wilson

• Penelope's Irish Experiences

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

• John Marshall

  James Bradley Thayer

• A Letter From Germany

  William C. Dreher

• The Flutes of the God

  Edith M. Thomas

• On the Road to Crowninshield

  Dora Loomis Hastings

• The Tory Lover

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• Love the Conqueror Came to Me

  Robert Underwood Johnson

• Animals in Literature

  George S. Hellman

• Mademoiselle Angéle

  Roy Rolfe Gilson

• The Cities of the World

  William Prescott Foster

• British Confederation

  J. W. Root

• Three Centuries of American Literature

  William Morton Payne

• Recent Verse

• Give the Country the Facts

• A Broken Idol

• When I Was a Boy

• Parkman's Tenacity

• A Rainy Sunday in Rome

• Victoria: May 24, 1819--January 22, 1901

  Tennyson

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