November 1911

Articles

• Criticizing the Courts

  “The position in which the American courts are placed to-day is a peculiarly delicate one. On the one side are those to whom modern American legislation is the new barbarism threatening the states and nation … On the other side are those who contend that legislation of the new type is necessary and unavoidable.”

  George W. Alger

• The Fruits of Death

  Ameen Rihani

• The Principal Girl: A Novel

  J. C. Snaith

• The House of Bondage

  Mary Antin

• Scum O' the Earth

  Robert Haven Schauffler

• Dress and the Woman

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

• The Great Refusal

  Ethel Puffer Howes

• David

  Gwendoline Overton

• The Cult of the Second-Best

  Elisabeth Woodbridge

• Helping to Govern India

  Charles Johnston

• The Columbian City

  Alice Meynell

• The College: An Undergraduate View

  Randolph S. Bourne

• Roman Nights

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

• The Church and the Mountain

  Zephine Humphrey

• The Last Room

  Katherine Metcalf Roof

• The Flag on Fortress Monroe: To the Four Winds 1864

  Silas Weir Mitchell

• Nelson P--

  Robert M. Gay

• Octavia Franklinia Bennet

• The Automatic Hat-Raiser

• Christian Names

• A New Tithe

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