August 1888

Articles

• The Mistress of Sydenham Plantation

  The story of an elderly Southern aristocrat, oblivious to what the war has cost her

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• Can School Programmes Be Shortened and Enriched?

  “The condition of secondary schools in the United States is at present one of inferiority; ... the country ought not to be satisfied with that condition.”

  Charles W. Eliot

• A Bishop of the Fifth Century

  H. W. P. and L. D.

• Yone Santo: A Child of Japan

  E. H. House

• An Enchanted Day

  Julia C. R. Dorr

• A Call on "Mother Moscow"

  Edmund Noble

• Ivo of Chartres

  Helen Gray Cone

• The Prometheus of Æschylus: In Two Parts. Part I

  William Cranston Lawton

• Literature in the Public Schools

  Horace Elisha Scudder

• The Despot of Broomsedge Cove

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• Boston Painters and Paintings

  William Howe Downes

• John Evelyn's Daughter

  Agnes L. Carter

• Sonnet

  Lucy C. Bull

• Mr. Lowell's Politics

• The Correspondence of Sir Henry Taylor

• A New Earth in the Old Earth's Arms

• Confessions of an Idealist

• Books of the Month

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