May 1890

Articles

• Henrik Ibsen: His Early Career as Poet and Play-Wright

  E. P. Evans

• The Tragic Muse

  Henry James

• Sir Peter Osborne

  Warwick, Edward Abbott Parry, Edw. Nicholas, and Peter Osborne

• Rudolph

  Viola Roseboro

• A Psalm of the Waters

  Silas Weir Mitchell

• Literary Shibboleths

  Agnes Repplier

• The Funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots

  Malcolm Bell

• Augury

  Edith M. Thomas

• Sidney

  Margaret Deland

• The Easter Hare

  “What has the ‘innocent rodent,’ as George Eliot would say, ‘with its small nibbling pleasures,’ to do with the great festival of the Resurrection?”

  Katharine Hillard

• Some Popular Objections to Civil Service Reform: In Two Parts. Part Two

  Oliver T. Morton

• Rod's Salvation: In Two Parts. Part One

  Annie Eliot

• Over the Teacups

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Some Recent Volumes of French Criticism

• Story's Conversations in a Studio

• Paul Jones's Funeral

• The Sadness of Rural Life

• A Remonstrance

• A Talk About Parsons

• Books of the Month

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