October 1886

Articles

• Race Prejudices

  “The higher few may by their imaginations be able to bridge the gulf which separates them from their alien brethren, but the mass cannot.”

  N. S. Shaler

• The Princess Casamassima: Book Fifth

  Henry James

• A Mad Monarch

  E. P. Evans

• A Literary Athlete

  Edward F. Hayward

• A Boutonnière

  Charles Henry Lüders

• The Witches of Venice

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

• The Golden Justice

  William Henry Bishop

• My Reale State

  Bradford Torrey

• From the Garden of a Friend

  Mary Agnes Tincker

• In the Clouds

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• The Rise of Arabian Learning

  Edward Hungerford

• Love's Solitude and Society

  Edith M. Thomas

• Abraham Lincoln

• Bacon's Dictionary of Boston

• Hutchinson's Diary: Second Volume

• Fortuny and Decamps

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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