August 1891

Articles

• The Reform of the Senate

  “We are in the midst of an extraordinary movement, State after State, to substitute everywhere the secret for the open ballot as a means of restoring a manly spirit to the voter.”

  Wendell Phillips Garrison

• The Lady of Fort St. John

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood

• A Disputed Correspondence

  Harriet Waters Preston and Louise Dodge

• Notes From the Wild Garden

  Edith M. Thomas

• Two Little Drummers

  Olive Thorne Miller

• The Pea Fields

  Charles G. D. Roberts

• A Colonial Inquisitor

  Henry Charles Lea

• General Sherman

  John C. Ropes

• Harebell: A Reparation

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

• The House of Martha

  Frank R. Stockton

• The Queen's Closet Opened

  Alice Morse Earle

• The Marriages

  Henry James

• Sweet Peas

  Julie M. Lippmann

• The Oppression of Notes

  Agnes Repplier

• Six Centuries of Self-Government

  W. D. Mccrackan

• Browning's Life

• Murray's Memoirs

• Canada and the Canadian Question

• Novel Economics

• Comment on New Books

• A Swiss Boarding-School

• Fulton in Love

• Certain Beliefs and Superstitions of the Negro

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