September 1901

Articles

• Mould and Vase

  Greek pottery of Arezzo  

  Edith Wharton

• The Death of the President

  “In witnessing the slaying of our Chief Magistrate by an anarchist, we are sharing in the evil inheritance of Old World tyranny and absolutism.”

  Bliss Perry

• Hunting Big Redwoods

  “Resolute, consummate, determined in form, always beheld with wondering admiration, the Big Tree always seems unfamiliar, standing alone, unrelated, with peculiar physiognomy, awfully solemn and earnest.”

  John Muir

• The Southern People During Reconstruction

  Thomas Nelson Page

• His Enemy

  Alice Brown

• Beauty

  William James Stillman

• Reminiscences of a Dramatic Critic

  Henry Austin Clapp

• The City at Night

  Rollin Lynde Hartt

• The Future of Political Parties

  Charles A. Conant

• Sea Rhapsody

  Richard Burton

• Audrey

  Mary Johnston

• Ten Years of University Extension

  Lyman P. Powell

• Japanese Plants in American Gardens

  Frances Duncan

• Big-Governor-Afraid

  William R. Lighton

• Notes on the Reaction

• Liza Wetherford

  Virginia Woodward Cloud

• Night Piece

  Arthur Colton

• A First Acceptance

• The Amateur Temper

• A Dream Orchard

• A Rejoinder

• Ancient and Modern Fatalism

• William McKinley: Jan. 29, 1843 -- Sept. 14, 1901

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