January 1891

Articles

• The Lesson of the Pennsylvania Election

  “It shows that ill-gotten and misused power, however securely intrenched, is at the mercy of a comparatively small portion of the voters, when that portion is ready to sink all partisanship in devotion to the public weal.”

  Henry Charles Lea

• Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan

  Percival Lowell

• A Swiss Farming Village

  Sophia Kirk

• A Novelist of the Jura

• Holiday Books

• Comment on New Books

• One of the Lost Geniuses

• A Modern Dogberry

• Russian-English

• Comedy of the Custom House

• A Little Case of Borrowing

• The Day of Small Kindnesses

• Word-Shadows

• A New University Course

  Cleveland Abbe

• The House of Martha

  Frank R. Stockton

• Compulsory Arbitration

  Charles Worcester Clark

• Snowbirds

  Archibald Lampman

• Two Philosophers of the Paradoxical: First Paper: Hegel

  Josiah Royce

• In Darkness

  John B. Tabb

• Felicia

  Fanny N. D. Murfree

• A Plea for Trust

  Lilla Cabot Perry

• An Inherited Talent

  Harriet Waters Preston

• Individualism in Education

  Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

• Kismet and the King

  Florence Wilkinson

• Boulangism and the Republic

  Adolphe Cohn

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