September 1907

Articles

• Why American Marriages Fail

  “A new relationship between the sexes has arisen, a slipshod unchivalrous companionship, which before marriage they nominate ‘good form,’ but which after marriage they illogically discover to be cause for tears or for temper.”

  Anna A. Rogers

• Earl Percy's Dinner-Table

  Harold Murdock

• Civilization

  James E. Richardson

• The Rules of the Game

  Edward Alsworth Ross

• Fenimore Cooper

  Brander Matthews

• When Town and Country Meet

  Elsie Singmaster

• Shelley

  Arthur Symons

• The Helpmate

  May Sinclair

• A Veteran Cavalryman's Tale

  E. W. Thomson

• Respice Finem

  Jeannette Marks

• Elizabethan Psychology

  Edward Dowden

• To the Wind

  John Vance Cheney

• The Immigrant Woman

  Frances A. Kellor

• The Anglo-American School of Polite Unlearning

  Samuel McChord Crothers

• Personality in Journalism

  M. A. DeWolfe Howe

• Joy From Sorrow

  R. Valantine Heckscher

• A Sick-Room Anthology

• Wit and Humor

• My Uncle Nat

• The Boswell Nation

• On Certain Vagaries of the Poets

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