February 1882

Articles

• Some Traits of Bismarck

  He “fought out the battles of his generation with ‘blood and iron, not with parliamentary speeches;’ and restored the medieval brigands to the place which had so long been usurped by a race of dyspeptic philosophers.”

  Herbert Tuttle

• Origin of Crime in Society (Part III)

  The final installment in a sociologist’s three-part study

  Richard L. Dugdale

• The Bay of Seven Islands

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• An Echo of Passion

  George Parsons Lathrop

• Studies in the South

• The Refunding Bill of 1881

  J. Laurence Laughlin

• Tom's Husband

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• In the Silent, the Silent November

  George Parsons Lathrop

• Richard Grant White

  E. P. Whipple

• Ember Days

  Edith M. Thomas

• Daniel Webster

  Henry Cabot Lodge

• Beethoven

  Owen Wister

• A Contrast

  K. G.

• The House of a Merchant Prince

  William Henry Bishop

• Northern Travel

• Recent Dramatic Literature

• Von Holsts Constitutional History of the United States

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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