June 1891

Articles

• What the Southern Negro Is Doing for Himself

  “The colored race has emerged from civil bondage. The next step will be to come out of a bondage which is financial.”

  Samuel J. Barrows

• Abraham Lincoln

  Carl Schurz

• The House of Martha

  Frank R. Stockton

• A Widow and Twins

  Bradford Torrey

• Variations on an Old Theme

  Arthur Sherburne Hardy and Charles Henry Crandall

• Classical Literature in Translation

  Richard G. Moulton

• Reminiscences of Professor Sophocles

  George Herbert Palmer

• Rowing at Oxford

  S. E. Winbolt

• A Town Mouse and a Country Mouse

  Rose Terry Cooke

• The Last Watch

  Bliss Carman

• On the Study of Geography

  Daniel Coit Gilman

• Goethe's Key to Faust: Third Paper: The Second Part of Faust

  William P. Andrews

• Vinet and Scherer

• New England in the Short Story

• Comment on New Books

• The Prayers of Our Old Puritans

• The Anatomy of the Epigram

• Pleasure and Pain Changing Places

• The Byles Family

• Fin De Siècle

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