October 1900

Articles

• Robert Gould Shaw

  A poem

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

• The Crisis in China

  James B. Angell

• John Ruskin as an Art Critic

  Charles H. Moore

• The Quest After Music

  Mary Boole Hinton

• The Capture of a Slaver

  J. Taylor Wood

• Some Old-Fashioned Doubts About New-Fashioned Education

  L. B. B. Briggs

• To Homer

  Alexander Blair Thaw

• Heartsease

  Mary Tracy Earle

• Finding the Ist Dynasty Kings

  H. D. Rawnsley

• The Draxon Dinners

  Charles Warren

• The Seven Lean Years

• The Thought of the Little Brother

  Anna Hempstead Branch

• A Letter From New Zealand

  John Christie

• The Prodigal

  Mary Hallock Foote

• Two Sonnets

  Richard Hovey

• Our Immigrants and Ourselves

  Kate Holladay Claghorn

• Piazza Philosophy

  Martha Baker Dunn

• A Plea for American Needlecraft

  Ada Sterling

• All That I Know of a Certain Star

  Justine Ingersoll

• Voting by Mail

  “There is no logical reason why a man who has the misfortune to break his leg, or to contract an illness that confines him to his house, should therefore lose his right to vote.”

  Edward Stanwood

• In Manus Tuas, Domine!

  Julia C. R. Dorr

• Modern Self-Consciousness

• The Position of Women in New Countries

• The Charm of the Commonplace

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