December 1904

Articles

• Remarks at the Peace Banquet

  Speaking at the World's Peace Congress, on October 7, 1904, William James delivered a speech that appeared two months later in The Atlantic. In it, he considered the psychological roots of war, and explained why war would always be with us.

  William James

• Emerson

  Henry James, Senior

• Christmas: Its Unfinished Business

  Samuel McChord Crothers

• The Star in the West

  Arthur Colton

• Our State Legislatures

  Samuel P. Orth

• When Least Aware

  Ellen Duvall

• A Veteran Skater's Gossip

  J. Macdonald Oxley

• Hugo Grotius

  Andrew D. White

• The Infinite Presence

  George M. Gould

• Unity

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Isidro

  Mary Austin

• Christina Rossetti

  Paul Elmer More

• Marianus

  Agnes Repplier

• Revelation

  Nannie Byrd Turner

• The Millionaire's Peril

  Henry A. Stimson

• Miss Gaylord and Jenny

  Arlo Bates

• Books New And Old

  H. W. Boynton

• The Poems of Freneau

• The History of Twenty-Five Years

  S. M. F.

• Of Time

• Fiction in Our Public Libraries

• Better Than the Best

• How I Came to Do It

• On the Necessity of Having an Opinion

• Books for a Cold

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