July 1887

Articles

• The Decay of Sentiment

  “Emotional literature, reflecting as it does the tastes and habits of a dead past, should not stand trial alone before the cold eyes of the mocking present, where there is no sympathy for its weakness and no clue to its identity.”

  Agnes Repplier

• My Country

  George E. Woodberry

• The Alkestis of Euripides

  William Cranston Lawton

• Our Hundred Days in Europe

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Two American Mémoires

• Still Waters Not Necessarily Deep

• A Forgotten Literary Phenomenon

• Bible Pictures Not Within Covers

• Concerning Convictions

• Health as a Condition of Success

• Books of the Month

• Doña Quixote

  Abby Sage Richardson

• An Old Kentucky Home

  Patty B. Semple

• When All Is Said

  Julie K. Wetherill

• The Second Son

  M. O. W. Oliphant and Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Count Tolstoϊ and the Public Censor

  Isabel F. Hapgood

• Is the Railroad Problem Solved?

  W. A. Crafts

• American Classics in School

  Horace Elisha Scudder

• The Water-Ways of Portsmouth

  Louise Imogen Guiney

• Schumann's Kinder-Scenen

  H. C. Bunner

• Paul Patoff

  F. Marion Crawford

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