April 1896

Articles

• China and the Western World

  Though China’s political fate seems uncertain and its people set in traditional ways, Lafcadio Hearn—a Japan-based journalist known for his writings on East Asian culture—predicts that China will one day pose a formidable economic threat to the West.

  Lafcadio Hearn

• The New Poe

  A classic review

• The Old Things

  Henry James

• The Flute

  J. Russell Taylor

• Old-Time Sugar-Making

  Rowland E. Robinson

• A Son of the Revolution

  Octave Thanet

• An Archer's Sojourn in the Okefinokee

  Maurice Thompson

• Some Memories of Hawthorne

  Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

• The Scotch Element in the American People

  Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

• Beside the Still Waters

  Stuart Sterne

• The Alaska Boundary Line

  T. C. Mendenhall

• Latter-Day Cranford

  Alice Brown

• The Case of the Public Schools: Ii. The Teacher's Social and Intellectual Position

  F. W. Atkinson

• The Presidency and Senator Allison

• Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture

• Comment on New Books

• Above the World

• A Book-Lover's Paradise

• Figliuolo Learns to Read

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