February 1904

Articles

• President-Elect Lincoln: The Journey to Washington

  In 1904, newspaper correspondent Henry Villard described his experiences accompanying Lincoln on part of his journey by train from Illinois to Washington for his inauguration

  Henry Villard

• Recollections of Lincoln

  A journalist who covered the Lincoln-Douglas debates recalls Lincoln’s gawky, earthy appeal.

  Henry Villard

• Wall Street and the Country

  Charles A. Conant

• Lynching: A Southern View

  Clarence H. Poe

• Strange Instrument of Many Strings

  M. A. De Wolfe Howe

• The Shadow

  Charles Miner Thompson

• English and American Cousins

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• On His Eightieth Birthday

  Robert Grant

• Is Commercialism in Disgrace?

  John Graham Brooks

• The Common Lot

  Robert Herrick

• Candlemas

  Arthur Ketchum

• A Basket of Chips

  Henry Oldys

• Fra Paolo Sarpi

  Andrew D. White

• Timeo Danaos

  John White Chadwick

• Timotheos and the Persians

  J. Irving Manatt

• By Catalogue

  Beatrice Hanscom

• George Borrow

  H. W. Boynton

• Cicero in Maine

  Martha Baker Dunn

• Cynicism

  Arthur Stanwood Pier

• The Book-Lover

  Clinton Scollard

• Old Wine in New Bottles

  Ferris Greenslet

• The Contemporary Men of Letters Series

  B. P.

• A Novel Experiment in Poetry

  H. W. B.

• Some Books About Cities

  H. W. B.

• An Idealistic Realist

• The Unruly Kingdom

• Tradition and Biography

• What Children Want to Know

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