May 1904

Articles

• The Diplomatic Contest for the Mississippi Valley

  "When we consider the power which the interior of the United States now exerts over the economic and political welfare of the world, we realize that the diplomatic intrigues for the possession of the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Great Lakes were of higher significance in world history than many of the European incidents which have received more attention."

  Frederick J. Turner

• The Humors of Advertising

  "Indeed, he were a sad sort of Christian, who, stalking abroad through the sunny realm of public advertising, could fail to be warmed by its humors"

  Rollin Lynde Hartt

• Letters of John Ruskin

  John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton

• Intensely Human

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• The Bachelors of Braggy

  Seumas Macmanus

• Whippoorwill Time

  Madison Cawein

• The Work of the Woman's Club

  Martha E. D. White

• The Law of the Soul

  Isabel Bowman Finley

• The Common Lot

  Robert Herrick

• The Year in France

  Alvan F. Sanborn

• An Hour With Our Prejudices

  Samuel McChord Crothers

• Dust to Dust

  Harriet Prescott Spafford

• The Judge

  Harriet A. Nash

• Fishing With a Worm

  Bliss Perry

• Paul Lenthier's Feeshin'-Pole

  Francis Sterne Palmer

• Some Biographical Studies

  H. W. Boynton

• Three Dramatic Studies

• Warwick Castle and Its Earls

• The Mouth of the Mime

• I Take My Niece to Parsifal

• A Plea for Patent Affection

• On Traveling Again: The "Deposit" System

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