September 1882

Articles

• The Last Chance of the Confederacy

  “With what a sad and heavy heart he turned at night from the hard-fought field, realizing that the last great opportunity was lost, we can only imagine. As the sun went down that night, it undoubtedly carried with it, in the mind of General Johnston, at least, the last hopes of the Southern Confederacy.”

  Alexander C. McClurg

• Two on a Tower

  Thomas Hardy

• Darkness

  Julia C. R. Dorr

• American History on the Stage

  R. Fellow

• Evil in Greek Mythology

  Elizabeth Robins

• Doctor Zay

  E. Stuart Phelps

• A Geologic Ramble on the Weald

  M. D. Conway

• Studies in the South

• Tears of Isis

  Frances L. Mace

• The Nation of the Willows

  F. H. Cushing

• The House of a Merchant Prince

  William Henry Bishop

• William Rufus

• Mozley's Reminiscences

• Lecky's England in the Eighteenth Century

• Leland on the Gypsies

• Political Science

• Mrs. Kemble's Memoirs

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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