January 1913

Articles

• A Plea for the Recognition of the Chinese Republic

  About a year after the revolutionary overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, Ching Chun Wang, a Chinese railway official and representative of the emergent republic, makes a case for international recognition.

  Ching Chun Wang

• The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

  "Emily Dickinson is one of our most original writers, a force destined to endure in American letters."

  Martha Hale Shackford

• The Balkan Crisis

  “This war is a gigantic blood feud, a racial struggle, a crusade.”

  Roland G. Usher

• Lessons of the Wilderness

  The second of three excerpts from John Muir’s autobiography

  John Muir

• The Dangers of War in Europe

  Guglielmo Ferrero

• Before the Canal Is Opened

  Arthur Ruhl

• The Way of Life

  Lucy Huffaker

• Souls

  Fannie Stearns Davis

• The Epic of the Indian

  Charles M. Harvey

• What Shall We Say?

  David Starr Jordan

• The Sunrise Prayer Meeting

  Rebecca Frazar

• Social Spot Cash

• Syndicalism and Its Philosophy

  Ernest Dimnet

• The Amulet

  Mary Antin

• O Sleep

  Grace Fallow Norton

• Lawyer and Physician: A Contrast

  G. M. Stratton

• Van Cleve and His Friends

  Mary S. Watts

• An Evening at Madame Rachel's

  Alfred De Musset

• J. E. B. Stuart

  Gamaliel Bradford Jr.

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