December 1909

Articles

• A Parliament for China

  "Though in theory the Chinese government is absolute, its representatives and agents have never been able to disregard the public opinion of the community in which they were working."

  Paul S. Reinsch

• Ogrin the Hermit

  Edith Wharton

• Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn

  Chamberlain and Lafcadio Hearn

• The Convention of Books

  Samuel McChord Crothers

• Be Comforted, My Little Muse

  Sarah N. Cleghorn

• The Religion of the Past

  Henry Dwight Sedgwick

• A Gift From His Youth

  Inez Haynes Gillmore, Jo Jackson Rumwill, George Daly, and Josephine Rumwill

• The Coöperative Family

  Francis E. Leupp

• Some Platitudes Concerning Drama

  John Galsworthy

• To the Rising Sun

  O. W. Firkins

• The Story of the Santa Fé Trail

  Charles M. Harvey

• The Worker in Sandal-Wood

  Marjorie L. C. Pickthall

• Can America Produce Merchant Seamen?

• The Battle of the Wilderness

  Morris Schaff, A. A. Humphreys, and C. B. Comstock

• Our Lost Individuality

  Loren H. B. Knox

• Herb-O'-Grace

  Mary Norsworthy Shepard

• The Dander of Susan: A Pratt Portrait

  Anna Fuller

• The Novel Two Thousand Years Ago

  Gamaliel Bradford Jr.

• The Lost Art of Ambling

  Holbrook White

• The Beloved Conservative

• The Enchanted Dusk

• The Open-Minded Bigot

• A Timid Man's Complaint of Babie

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