December 1906

Articles

• The Spell of Whitman

  "It is to be recognized that the spell is not, and cannot be, universal. Multitudes have shown themselves, and other multitudes will remain, immune to it."

  M. A. DeWolfe Howe

• A Motor-Flight Through France (Part I)

  Edith Wharton reflects on her European travels in the first installment of a three-part series.

  Edith Wharton

• Christmas and the Literature of Disillusion

  “The Christmas creed is a reasonable one and keeps close to the every-day facts. It is not the assertion that there is no evil, but it is the assertion that we may overcome evil with good.”

  Samuel McChord Crothers

• New National Forces and the Old Law

  Melville M. Bigelow

• Life

  Frank Dempster Sherman

• The Judgment Seat

  Juliet Wilbor Tompkins

• The Measure of Greatness

  N. S. Shaler

• The Spirit of Present-Day Spain

  Havelock Ellis

• Thomas Love Peacock

  H. W. Boynton

• Nightfall

  John B. Tabb

• The Laboratory in the Hills

  Elizabeth Foote

• The House of Lords

  William Everett

• Literature and the Modern Drama

  Henry Arthur Jones

• The Ruin of Harry Benbow

  Henry Rideout

• Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick

• In the Fens

  Arthur C. Benson

• Onward

  Florence Earle Coates

• The Man Who Was Obstinate

  Alice Brown

• The Keepsake

  Gelett Burgess

• My Godchild

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

• A New Voice in French Fiction

  Henry Dwight Sedgwick

• A Childish Chagrin

• Mount Vernon Revisited

• A New Profession

• The Passing of the Book - Mark

• On Certain Things to Eat

• Of Autobiographies

• A Sin of Omission

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