March 1885

Articles

• The Consolidation of the Colonies

  “There are two distinct phases of American constitutional history: the one, the great struggle wherein the Union enforced the organic law upon the States; the other, the attempt of the Supreme Court to bridle Congress.”

  Brooks Adams

• The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• The Seraph Speech

  Robertson James

• A Plunge Into Summer

  Sylvester Baxter

• Madame Mohl, Her Salon and Her Friends: Third Paper

  Kathleen O’Meara

• The Brown-Stone Boy

  William Henry Bishop

• The Book of Hours

  E. R. Sill

• Flake White

  Edith M. Thomas

• A Marsh Island

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• The Head of Niobe: (In the Uffizi Gallery)

  William H. Hayne

• The Mother of Turgeneff

  Clara Barnes Martin

• Ghosts

  R. K. Munkittrick

• A Country Gentleman

  M. O. W. Oliphant

• Time in Shakespeare's Comedies

  Henry A. Clapp

• The New Portfolio: First Opening

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Two Historic Americans

• Miss Thomas's Poems

• Carlyle in London

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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