January 1882

Articles

• Police Report

  "I do not remember just what whim it was that led me to visit the police court ... perhaps it was because, in my revolt against unreality, I was in the humor to see life whose reality asserts itself every day in the newspapers with indisputable force"

  William Dean Howells

• Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

  A review

• New Poetry of the Rosettis and Others

  An excerpt in which the author reviews Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"

• A Midsummer Fête in the Pueblo of San Juan

  H. H.

• Flower and Fruit

  Edith M. Thomas

• Some Memoirs of the Second Empire

• The Portrait of a Lady and Dr. Breen's Practice

• Recent Illustrated Books

• Reminiscences of James T. Fields

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

• An Echo of Passion

  George Parsons Lathrop

• The Guerdon

  J. J. P.

• A Sunday at Poros

  Eunice W. Felton

• And Joe

  S. A. L. E. M.

• Three Worlds

  John Trowbridge

• John Baptist at the Jordan

  Edward E. Hale

• Hindu Humor

  Elizabeth Robins

• Studies in the South

• The Prominence of Athleticism in England

  A. Granville Bradley

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