August 1911

Articles

• Lee in Battle

  Gamaliel Bradford Jr.

• Humanizing the Prisons

  “Think of the criminal’s power to bleed society, like war and disease, without a scintilla of gain. Would it not be worth while to plant a few institutions, to be mostly supported by the criminal himself, to cure the criminal?”

  Morrison I. Swift

• Why I Came to America

  “’We live in a land of strangers, where there is no soil for the seeds of our activity to find roots. Remember, David, we are strangers!’”

  Nathan Kraus

• The Long Inheritance

  Cornelia A. P. Comer

• In the Hands of a Receiver

  Samuel McChord Crothers

• Miss Alcott's New England

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

• The Uses of the Comic Spirit in Religion

  William Austin Smith

• Darwin at an American University

  Richard C. Maclaurin

• New Jersey

  J. E. Richardson

• Our National Debt-Habit

  W. Martin Swift

• In the Cave

  Julia D. Dragoumis

• A Note on Romance

  Paul Mariett

• The Forerunners

  Vida D. Scudder

• A Prairie Caravansery

  Margaret Lynn

• Making Believe

  Robert M. Gay

• The Silence of the Singer

  Edith M. Thomas

• The United States Navy

  William H. White

• In the Key of Clam

  Atkinson Kimball

• The Lure of the Waste-Basket

• Employers Past and Present

• The Father-Tongue

• A Complaint of the Imagination

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