December 1906

In This Issue
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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."
A Motor-Flight Through France (Part I)
Edith Wharton reflects on her European travels in the first installment of a three-part series.
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.”
New National Forces and the Old Law
Life
The Judgment Seat
The Measure of Greatness
The Spirit of Present-Day Spain
Thomas Love Peacock
Nightfall
The Laboratory in the Hills
The House of Lords
Literature and the Modern Drama
The Ruin of Harry Benbow
Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick
In the Fens
Onward
The Man Who Was Obstinate
The Keepsake
My Godchild
A New Voice in French Fiction
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
