June 1890

Articles

• The National House of Representatives: Its Growing Inefficiency as a Legislative Body

  “The lower house must so reform its procedure as permanently to vest in the majority of the dominant party, whichever it may be, the power to act.”

  Hannis Taylor

• The Novel and the Common School

  Charles Dudley Warner

• The Turn of the Tide

  H. W. P. and L. D.

• The Pathless Way

  Annie Fields

• Sidney

  Margaret Deland

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

  Annie Eliot

• Cart Horses

  Henry Childs Merwin

• Antinoüs: Star and Flower

  Mary C. Gates

• The Babes in the Wood

  Olive Thorne Miller

• The Eight-Hour Law Agitation

  Francis A. Walker

• An Arthurian Journey

• Over the Teacups

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• A Short Defense of Villains

  Agnes Repplier

• God in His World

• William Morris's New Work

• Liverpool Glimpses

• A Slip of Coleridge's

• Books of the Month

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