April 1904

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Articles

• An American Primer

  “These States are rapidly supplying themselves with new words, called for by new occasions, new facts, new politics, new combinations.”

  Walt Whitman

• The Frenchwoman's Son

  S. Carleton

• Life's Tavern

  Mary Burt Messer

• The Sicilian Highlands

  William Sharp

• The Common Lot

  Robert Herrick

• Moral Overstrain

  George W. Alger

• Invocation

  Gertrude Buck

• Lugging Boat on Sowadnehunk

  Fannie Hardy Eckstorm

• The Aristocracy of the Dollar

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Some Recent Aspects of Darwinism

  E. T. Brewster

• Notes on the Scarlet Letter

  Theodore T. Munger

• The New American Type

  H. D. Sedgwick

• The Age Limit

  E. S. Johnson

• An Odd Sort of Popular Book

  Gamaliel Bradford Jr.

• Content

  John Vance Cheney

• When I Practised Medicine

  Leighton Parks

• Byways of Literature

  H. W. Boynton

• Home Lite in the Seventeenth Century

  S. M. F.

• Biographical

  M. A. De W. H.

• Three English Writers

• New Conditions in Reading

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