July 1903
In This Issue
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Articles
The Gold-Hunters of the North
“No Christian martyr ever possessed greater faith than did the pioneers of Alaska. … They could not leave. They ‘knew’ the gold was there, and they persisted. Somehow, the romance of the land and the quest entered into their blood, the spell of it gripped hold of them and would not let them go.”
Dreams in the Redwoods
A poem
Sargent’s Silva
“Though accustomed to read the trees themselves, not written descriptions of them, I have read it through twice, as if it were a novel, and wished it were longer.”
The Literary Development of the Pacific Coast
Principles of Municipal School Administration
The First Year of Cuban Self-Government
Poetry and the Stage
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
Some Recent Books of Travel
Chadwick's William Ellery Channing
The Studies of a Biographer
Reflections of a Fringer
The Day After
A Great Person and Certain Bores
A Middle-Aged Women
Voices of Rain
The Last Antelope
Life at a Mountain Observatory
The Voice of the Scholar
On Mount Hamilton
A Lochinvar of the East
What Is "Comparative Literature"?
A Boy's Love
The Youngest
A National Type of Culture
Marg'et Ann
A Bunch of Texas and Arizona Birds











