April 1894

Articles

• War’s Use of the Engines of Peace

  “The nation must be prepared for defense as soon as possible, for no one can say when we may have to take up a gage of battle.”

  Joseph L. Brent

• Philip and His Wife

  Margaret Deland

• General Lee During the Campaign of the Seven Days

  Eben Greenough Scott

• The Oath of Allegiance

  E. Stuart Phelps

• Nature in Old English Poetry

  Richard Burton

• The Secret of the Wild Rose Path

  Olive Thorne Miller

• The Shepherd-Girl

  Josephine Preston Peabody

• Jerry: A Personality

  Elisabeth Cavazza

• Early Latin Poetry

  R. Y. Tyrrell

• Supplication

  Julia C. R. Dorr

• The Referendum in Switzerland and in America

  A. Lawrence Lowell

• The Windigo

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood

• Some Causes of the Italian Crisis

  William R. Thayer

• Opinions

  Agnes Repplier

• Bronson Alcott

• Recent Fiction

• A Pioneer in Historical Literature

• Comment on New Books

• The Country School Over Again

• Inhuman Documents

• A Note on Mirrors

• American Metaphor

• Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest

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