January 1909

Articles

• Modern Chemistry and Medicine

  “The particular branch of science called chemistry … holds the key which alone can unlock the gate to really fundamental knowledge of the hidden causes of health and disease.”

  Theodore William Richards

• The New Literature

  B. P.

• We Will Keep Our Dreams

  James B. Kenyon

• The Year in Germany

  William C. Dreher

• American Democracy and Corporate Reform

  Robert R. Reed

• Recent Literature on the Elizabethan Drama

  William Allan Neilson

• The Image-Maker

  John B. Tabb

• The Retrospect

  Ada Cambridge

• As to Women's Clubs

• Recording a Likeness

• Algernon's Wife

• A School of Posturing

• Fireworks and Fame

• The Value of Taking Things Seriously

• In the Cool of the Day

  Grace Ellery Channing

• Advertisement

  Edward Sandford Martin

• Ireland's Veils

  Ethel Rolt Wheeler

• Chapters From an Autobiography

  Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

• Employers' Liability

  Frank W. Lewis

• The Master-Weaver

  Maude Radford Warren

• Two Plays by Charles Rann Kennedy

  Elisabeth Luther Cary

• Milton

  George A. Gordon

• Demos Triumphant

  Jefferson B. Fletcher

• Charles Eliot Norton

  Barrett Wendell

• Po' Jo and His Neighbors

  Herbert Ravenel Sass

• The Meaning of the Election

  Charles A. Conant

• The Cent School

  Lucy Huston Sturdevant

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