October 1878

Articles

• Certain Dangerous Tendencies in American Life

• The Relations of Labor and Capital

  “The vast systems for production and distribution which now minister to the wants of the people are among the grandest monuments of civilization. Yet there are many at the present time who, with a strange perversity of judgment, denounce them as the cause of their sufferings, when in fact they are the very means by which they subsist.”

  Erastus B. Bigelow

• Quatrains

  John William De Forest

• The Europeans

  Henry James Jr.

• Summer Noon

  Augusta Larned

• Poganuc People, and Other Novels

• Silver Buttons

  Elizabeth H. Fenn

• A House of Entertainment

  Horace Elisha Scudder

• Deus Immanens

  T. R. Bacon

• Abuse of Taxation

  Brooks Adams

• Home Life of the Brook Farm Association

• History

  Richard Henry Stoddard

• The Parson's Horse Race

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• The Meaning of Music

  Richard Grant White

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

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