August 1904

Articles

• The House of the Dead Hand

  "The hand was a woman's—a dead drooping hand, which hung there convulsed helpless, as though it had been thrust forth in denunciation of some evil mystery within the house, and had sunk struggling into death"

  Edith Wharton

• Letters of John Ruskin

  Charles Eliot Norton and John Ruskin

• Unpunished Commercial Crime

  George W. Alger

• Song's Apostasy

  William Watson

• The Common Lot

  Robert Herrick

• The Centenary of Hawthorne

  Bliss Perry

• Fellowship

  Martha Hale Shackford

• Tutuila (U. S.)

  David Starr Jordan and Vernon Lyman Kellogg

• The Two Chanty-Men

  George S. Wasson

• Dissonance and Evil

  Daniel Gregory Mason

• A Selborne Pilgrimage

  Cornelius Weygandt

• Concerning Temperance and Judgment to Come

  Martha Baker Dunn

• The Phantom Coasters

  Edward N. Pomeroy

• The Todds' Utopia

  Ella Betts Waterbury

• A Literary Blackmailer of the Sixteenth Century

  Paul Van Dyke

• Machine-Made Human Beings

  Mary Moss

• Books New and Old: Books and the Hour

  H. W. Boynton

• Letters, Diaries, and Reminiscences. 1800-1850

  S. M. F.

• Victuals and Drink in Jane Austen

• The Bovine Club

• On Reading Aloud

• Swindling and Newspaper-Advertising

• Broken Glass and Orange Peel

• On Writing for the Club

• An Electric Light of Literature

  Reddy Ruyter

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