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...recent title to fame is the authorship of "The Anglomaniacs" attempts to write an essay in a novelist's style with unfortunate results. Her subject is "Maidens and Matrons in American Society." The maidens receive further attention in a symposium "Shall our Daughters have Dowries?" by C. S. Messinger, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Amelin E. Barr, Mrs. Beecher, Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Rollins...
...most common-schooled and least educated people in the world. Mr. Warner asserts that it is the business of schools to teach a love of the good literature which is the fruitage of the world's thought. The "Turn of the Tide" is signed by the initials of Harriet Waters Preston and "L. D." It relates to the life of Symmachus, and the final triumph of worldly christianity over paganism. Mr. Hannis Taylor, in a paper on the growing inefficiency of the House of Representatives as a legislative body, advocates the seating of the cabinet in Congress. "Babes...
...Hannah Collinse's Jim." There are several interesting essays on history and politics-among which are the "The People in Government" by H. C. Merwin, "Why our Science Students go to Germany" by S. Sheldon and "A French Bishop of the Fifteenth Century" by F. C. Lowell. Miss Harriet W. Preston continues a series of papers on Roman history with a sketch of Cicero's closing years, entitled "Before the Assassination." There are two short stories, "The King's Cup and Cake" by Sophie May, and "A Dissolving view of Carrick Meagher" by George H. Jessop. Bliss Carman, a recent...
...judge of the story as a whole, but the beginning is surely auspicious. Shorter stories are "A Winter Courtship," by Miss Jewett, who is well known as a writer of novelettes; "The Gift of Fernseed," a fanciful tale by H. P. Robinson, and "Under which King," by Miss Harriet W. Preston. The number also contains several interesting essays, among which are "Butterflies in Disguise," by Samuel H. Scudder, the well-known Cambridge entomologist. "A Plea for Humor," by Agnes Repplier, a thoughtful article on politics entitled "The Spirit of American Politics as shown in the Late Election," by Charles...
...pleasing poem, "A Day." Crawford continues Paul Platoff and John Fiske with his usual clearness offers an admirable paper on "The Federal Convention." The most notable paper, however, is the long expected poem by James Russell Lowell, "Credidimus Jovem Regnare." Among other papers are "Two Serious Books" by Harriet Waters Preston. "A Bird of Affairs" by Olive Thorne Miller and the first part of a story, "The Lady from Maine," by Lawrence Saxe. Mr. Winter and Mr. Langdon and Susan Fenimore Cooper offer very interesting papers and the number is completed by a notable review of Crowell's addresses...