Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general references-"Trade and transportation between the United States and Spanish America" by W. E. Curtis; Recent Economic Questions by David A. Wells...
Question: Resolved, That there should be a complete commercial reciprocity between the United States and South America...
...stage, many anecdotes of Power, Wallack, Macready, and in fact all the great American actors of the last half century. The first of the Present Day Papers is written by William Chauncy Langdon, the subject being "The Problems of Modern Society." Seven of the most sociological critics of America have formed a group for the purpose of discussing social problems, in a series of essays of which this is the first. Miss Susan N. Carter contributes a paper on "Street Life in Madrid," with several picturesque illustrations. Another of Frank R. Stockton's amusing stories is begun in this number...
...money craze. "Some Romances of the Revolution" by Edward T. Hayward is an excellent study of William Gilmore Simmes' six novels on the revolutionary period. The other articles of the number are up to the usual high standard of the Monthly, the one entitled "Materials for Landscape Art in America" being perhaps the best...
...several novels, illustrated novelettes, and short stories. "The Women of the French Salons" are to be described in a brilliant series of illustrated papers. The important discoveries made with the great Lick Telescope at San Francisco (the largest telescope in the world) and the latest explorations relating to prehistoric America (including the famous Serpent Mound, of Ohio) are to be chronicled in The Century...