August 1909

In This Issue
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Articles
The Autocrat and His Fellow-Boarders
A tribute to Dr. Holmes and his "Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table"
Cecily
A Thought and Its Thinkers
The Battle of the Wilderness
The Politics of a Pullman Car
Musings of a Pre-Raphaelite Painter
The Diary of Gideon Welles
George Meredith
The Dower-Ladies
A Bivouac
The Fall of the Golden Rock
The Great Tidal Waves of Bird-Life
The Year in France
Donatello's Cantoria
The Customary Correspondent
A Classical Education in America
The Face of the Fields
Sarah Orne Jewett
The Lure of the Berry
On Our Fenceless State
In Praise of Quoters
Sleep
Charm
