February 1897

Articles

• My Sixty Days in Greece: The Olympic Games, Old and New

  “Religion hallowed athleticism; it hallowed the Olympic games. The games were part of the worship of the gods, victory was a token of their favor.”

  Basil L. Gildersleeve

• Democratic Tendencies

  E. L. Godkin

• Thirty Years of the Peabody Education Fund

  D. C. Gilman

• The Story of an Untold Love

  Paul Leicester Ford

• A Study of American Liquor Laws

  Charles W. Eliot

• The Juggler

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• Village Improvement Societies

  Mary Caroline Robbins

• Emerson, Sixty Years After: Ii

  John Jay Chapman

• Cheerful Yesterdays

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Puvis De Chavannes in Boston

  Cecilia Waern

• Love's Delay

  Elia W. Peattie

• Two Interpreters of National Architecture

  Henry Van Brunt

• A Portable Historical Museum

• Comment on New Books

• A Reminiscence of Tennyson

• Fissiparous Fiction

• Of Melody

• My Grandmother's Books

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